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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
IN A TURPENTINE GROVE. 
The Long-leaved Pine furnishes most of the turpentine and rosin o£ 
commerce. Range: Virginia to Florida and Texas. Photograph by 
G. Clyde Fisher. 
scopes, telescopes, and the like, comes from the Balsam 
Fir. Bark for tanning comes from Oak and Hemlock. 
The Indians of the Eastern Woodlands or Great Lakes 
area made canoes and many other useful articles of the 
bark of the Canoe or Paper Birch. Baskets are made 
from Willow twigs. Maple sugar comes chiefly from 
the Sugar Maple. 
The turpentine industry is the chief one in parts of 
the South where the Long-leaved Pine thrives. The 
United States produces more turpentine and rosin than 
any other country in the world. The turpentine is used 
in paints and in various arts. The rosin is used in var- 
nish, laundry soap, etc. These two products come from 
the sap or “gum” of the pine tree. The sap is secured 
by tapping or “boxing” the tree, and then keeping the 
cut ducts of the sap-wood open by “chipping” or “pull- 
