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used in leather dressings and shoe polishes. And these naval stores 

 are used in scaling waxes. 



TOion you figure that there is a billion dollars invested in our 

 paint industry vMch has a working force of 100,000 men, you begin to 

 realize how important turpentine is in the paint industry alone. 



But there aro many important uses of turpentine besides as a thinner 

 for paints and polishes, not only for shoes, but furniture, and floors, 

 and stoves. 



Rosin is used in the manufactviro of soap and for surfacing paper 

 for printing and writing. It is used for the manufacture of rosin oils, 

 varnishes, and paint dryers, in waterproof compoijnds, in roofing materials, 

 in the manufacture of linoleum and oil cloth, in printing inks and many 

 other important articles including ointments, plasters, and disinfecting 

 compounds. 



Today about two^ thirds of the world's so-called "naval stores" 

 aro produced from the gum of the pine trees in the southern United States. 



In fact, so great lias gro\m the demand for the products from those 

 pines, that the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture has found 

 that provision must be made to insure a continuous crop of the t\irpentine 

 trees, by protecting the forests from fire and from the razor-back hogs 

 that eat largo qoantititos of the longleaf pine seed and destroys vast 

 numbers of the baby trees by rooting them up to feast on the thick, juicy 

 bark of their taproots. 



In tho old days, tho turpentine pines wore seriously damaged by 

 haphazard methods of the operators vdio often destroyed a stand of timber 

 by working trees too small to stand turpentining, or by working them too 

 liard. 



For fifteen years the Forest Service has been trying to find out 

 and demonstrate methods of turpentining that yield the best returns. But 

 the picturosc[ue story of tho tuipontine tree and the main finding of the 

 foresters which will enable us to keep our great "naval stores" industry 

 on a permanent basis are contained in a publication called "Pine Tree Tre2a«-i 

 T3tr<jbl', It is Miscellaneoxis Publication No. 106, 



Now we are back in the woods and fields, after a little dip in the 

 ocean and a stop in the homo. I n^ght moralize about how times cliange, 

 and v/ith then supply and demand, bui; I vri.ll leave that to you, v/Mlc I 

 just dream about these old ships running before the wind -under f-all canvas. 



A^mOUlIcmENT: Two weeks from today Station will present another talk 



\yith Uncle Sam*s Naturalists. In Vho meantime, if any of you want "Pine Tree 

 Treasures" you can got it by writing either to this Station or direct to the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D.C. "Pino Tree 

 Treasures" is Miscellaneous Publication No. 106, It is free as long as the 

 supply lasts. 



