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FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



cuhensis Griseb.) along the coast, which ''runs dry" in one or two 

 years, as is true of the loblolly pine in North Carolina. 



It may be said that most of the orchards now producing in North 

 Carolina have been "back-boxed"* and that over four-fifths of 

 the crude turpentine comes from back-boxed trees. Only in Mont- 

 gomery and the western parts of Moore county are there any 

 extensive bodies of trees w^hich have not been back-boxed. The 

 average time the trees have been worked in these two counties is 

 about seven years, but many of the orchards in Montgomery have 

 only been worked for four years. 



ARKAS OF ABANDONED TURPENTINE ORCHARDS. 



An examination of this region showed that large areas of long- 

 leaf pine forests had been abandoned as no longer profitably yield- 

 ing turpentine. Such areas, wdiere the trees are still standing, are 

 classed by the distillers as ahandoiied orchards. AVhen these forests 

 have been removed by fire or cut by lumbermen and no loblolly 

 pine has appeared to take the place of the long-leaf pine, the term 

 ivaste land is applied to these areas. The following estimates of the 

 amounts of abandoned orchards in the separate counties are based 

 on returns made by 162 distillers in these counties, supplemented 

 by personal investigation by the writer. These areas, in acres, of 

 abandoned turpentine orchards were as follows in December, 1893: 



Areas of Abandoned Turpentine Orchards in Norili Carolina, 1893. 



Bladen county 



60,000 acres. Onslow county 38,000 acres. 



Brunswick 98,000 



Cumberland 51,000 



Duplin 17,00!) 



Harnett 52,000 



Lenoir 2(»,000 



Johnston 30,000 



Montgomery 10,000 



Moore 10,000 



Nash 25,000 



Pender 28,000 



Richmond 32,000 



Robeson 63,500 



Sampson 58,500 



AVayne 30,000 



Wilson 20,000 



Other counties 75,000 



Total in the State.... 718, 000 



Included in the term "other counties" are Wake, Edgecombe, 

 Craven, Columbus, New Hanover and Carteret counties. The 



*For explanations of this and other terms see pp. 94—96. 



