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amount abandoned during the past few years has been greater than 

 usual, the very low prices making it unprofitable to work thinly 

 timbered orchards longer. The operation of many of these bodies 

 may be resumed should there be any material advance in prices 

 of naval store products, but such a change is hardly probable. In 

 these areas of abandoned orchards there is a great range of density 

 of forest growth, varying from that which may be called the normal 

 densit}^, which will cut from 3,500 to 4,500 feet, board measure, to 

 the acre, to that which will scarcely cut 300 feet to the acre, below 

 which latter limit it would be considered ivaste land unless a 

 growth of loblolly pine has, in part, replaced the long-leaf pine. 

 Although there is very little of this abandoned orchard that is 

 heavily timbered with long-leaf pine, all of it has, more or less, 

 valuable mill timber on it. Much of the timber might again be 

 boxed and profitably worked if protected until the growth of the 

 space between the boxes would allow new boxes to be cut. 



ANNUAL ADDITIONS TO THE TURPENTINE ORCHARDS. 



The number of acres of round timber being boxed yearly is now 

 very small. An attempt was made to ascertain this amount, but 

 both hack boxes and original boxes were included in the returns; 

 these figures, too, were somewhat fragmentary for certain districts. 

 For the seasons 1892- 93 and 1893-94 the total number of boxes cut 

 in each county were about as follows: 



Number of Boxes Cut in NortJi Carolina, 1893- 94. 



County. 



Season 

 1892-'93. 



Bladen 



86,000 



Brunswick! 



10,000 



Columbus 



60,000 



Cumberland 



255, UOO 



Duplin t 



11,000 





82,000 





35,000 



Montgomery 



35,000 



Moore 



, 83,000 





Season 

 1893-'94. 



95,000 



""70,000" 

 220,000 

 4,000 

 70,000 

 42,000 

 60,000 

 78,000 

 3,000 



County. 



New Hanover* 

 Pender 



Richmond 



Wayne. 

 Wilson. 



Season 



Season 



1892-'93. 



1 893-' 94. 



60,000 



60,000 



33,000 



22,000 



35,000 



18,000 ' 



90,000 



65,000 



197,000 



96,500 



114,000 



105,000 



7,000 



3,000 



Totals !l, 193,000 1,011,500 



*No returns made. 



fReturns not full. 



