Report upon the forestry investigations of the of agriculture1877-1898 . NAVAL STORE INDUSTRY. 145 but also iu the indirect iuflueiu-e whicli this industry exerts on the condition and future of one ofour richest forest resources. Owing to the wasteful and careless manner iu which this industry is carried on and thedisastrous conflagrations that follow in its train, which destroy thousands of acres of the mostvaluable timber every year, while the margin of profit to the turpentine gatherer is comparativelysmall, this industry may be considered the most unprofitable to the nation a
Report upon the forestry investigations of the of agriculture1877-1898 . NAVAL STORE INDUSTRY. 145 but also iu the indirect iuflueiu-e whicli this industry exerts on the condition and future of one ofour richest forest resources. Owing to the wasteful and careless manner iu which this industry is carried on and thedisastrous conflagrations that follow in its train, which destroy thousands of acres of the mostvaluable timber every year, while the margin of profit to the turpentine gatherer is comparativelysmall, this industry may be considered the most unprofitable to the nation at large in spite of thelarge aggregate value of its products. This is not so by necessity, but due to faulty object of this discussion is to create a more general interest iu the industry, give informationregarding its methods, show its defects, and pave the way toward improvement and more rationalprocedure. One of the most important results of the investigations of the Division of Forestry was theestablishment of the fact that the bleeding of the Southern i)ines for th
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