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more, to be the best for wood formation, as was shown by the com- 

 parative observations made on material showing the 1915, 1916, and 

 1917 growth rings. The maximum number of resin passages per 

 unit area found in 1917 was not present even at the end of the 1917 

 season (fig. 7). 



Wood formation under' narrow chipping. — The width of the an- 

 nual ring, the time when wood formation begins, and the amount 

 and density of the summer wood, appear to serve as very good cri- 

 teria of the extent to which the tree is affected by turpentining. 

 A very severe chipping was generally found to be followed by a 

 delay in wood formation and by a very marked reduction in both 

 ring width and percentage of summer wood. 



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 trees with one dying tree left out) ; B, double. 



' The wood structure observed in the specimens from the narrow- 

 chipped tract at Columbia, Miss., as shown in Tables 2, 3, and 4, ap- 

 proached most closely the wood formation of the round or untur- 

 pentined timber from that section. The width and character of the 

 summer wood were also much nearer normal than in the specimens 

 cut from the standard and double tracts. Hence it might be said that 

 wood formation in general suffered little, or sometimes not at all, 

 from this method of turpentining. In other words, the vitality of 

 the timber and its capacity to respond were less reduced by narrow 

 chipping than by either the standard or the double method. The 

 narrow-chipped trees in many cases (PI. V, figs. 3 and 4) showed more 

 wood formation in 1917 than in 1916, in spite of the fact that 1917, 



