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which is derived from bleeding the Longleaf Pine, 

 the naval store industry, producing now values to 

 the amount of ;^20,ooo,ooo per annum, has also 

 done miLch to reduce supplies and reproduction. 

 While it might have been carried on, as it is in 

 France, without injury to timber or young growth, 

 the crude methods employed have destroyed much 

 timber before the saw miller was ready to use it, and 

 much more has fallen a prey to the destructive fires 

 which have followed the turpentine gatherer. 



Besides the pines there is found in the swamps 

 of the Southern states another valuable conifer, 

 the Bald Cypress. The area occupied by this 

 species is naturally small, and with an annual cut 

 which may now be much more than 5,000,000 feet, 

 it can be soon exhausted, and the reproduction, 

 which is naturally less ready on lands under water 

 for several months in the year, may be counted as 

 nil. 



Of hardwoods we have large areas throughout 

 the entire Atlantic forest, and as our consump- 

 tion is relatively small, and the hardwoods repro- 

 duce readily, their future is easily provided for. 

 In the more settled parts of the New England and 

 North Atlantic states and on the northern Appa- 

 lachians of Pennsylvania and New York, the timber 

 forest of hardwoods has mostly been supplanted 

 by the coppice, producing only firewood and small 

 dimensions, but it will be an easy task to change it 

 back into timber forest. 



