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UTILIZATION OF EXUDED PRODDCTS. 



heavy by the hill-men, the blaze has been made with the ordinary 

 hill adze (Fig. 65 A). It would, however, be easy enough to 



Fig. 65. 



Section, on cd 



Section on ab 



Departmental method of tapping the Finns longiColia in the Jaonsar Division, 

 School Circle, N.-W. P. and Oudh. 



A. — Hill adze (weight under 2 lbs.) i C. — Section on a. b. 



B. — Blaze in elevation. I D. — Section on c. d. 



get lighter abchots made and the men would soon get into the 

 way of using them. Regarding the superiority of the abchot to 

 the adze there can be no question. It is more than twice as 

 expeditious and effective, and for the same size of blaze injures 

 the tree less, while the gently sloping edges of the blaze get more 

 quickly covered over with the new deposits of wood (compare sec- 

 tions in Figs. 64 and 65). Then, again, in using the adze there is 

 always risk of the tool working obliquely towards, and exposing 

 the heartwood, and the sides of the blaze can never^ from time to 

 time, be freshened by the removal of a layer of wood, a mere frac- 

 tion of an inch thick, as can be done with the abchot. Fig. 64 D 

 represents a blaze in operation, with a zinc or galvanised iron 

 gutter g fixed into the stem at the base of the blaze and a pot 

 suspended immediately below, into which the resin drops from the 

 gutter. The blaze, which has a nearly constant width of a little 

 over 5 inches to begin with, should be made about 16 inches long. 



