. American forestry. Forests and forestry. HE.\LTH AMONG THE PINES Despite their intense summer heat, if one will but observe a few rules of sanitation re- quired by the proximity of the tropics, the pine barrens are a health resort. Witness the fame of Southern Pines, North Carolina; Sumter, South Caro- lina, and many places in the interior of Florida, to say nothing of the "Ozone Belt" in Louisiana and Mis- sissippi. After an experience in the sunlit barrens, one can cheerfullv drink the old toast to the oldest of the longleaf iiine states:. )f the jleaf s,i^^'i. Coiiitf wiiere the
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. HE.\LTH AMONG THE PINES Despite their intense summer heat, if one will but observe a few rules of sanitation re- quired by the proximity of the tropics, the pine barrens are a health resort. Witness the fame of Southern Pines, North Carolina; Sumter, South Caro- lina, and many places in the interior of Florida, to say nothing of the "Ozone Belt" in Louisiana and Mis- sissippi. After an experience in the sunlit barrens, one can cheerfullv drink the old toast to the oldest of the longleaf iiine states:. )f the jleaf s,i^^'i. Coiiitf wiiere the THE SENTINEL .^ loiif lon,i,' pine left by the owners nf the land tu re-seed tlie cnt-over area sur- roiniilini; it. "Here's to the land pine The summer land, doth shine Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great. Here's to the ( )ld Xorth State!" The English speaking settlers came into contact with longleaf at the set- tlement of Jamesttjwn. and as earlv as KiHi tar. pitch and turiientine. the triumvirate of products of the pine tree which are known as naval stores, are mentioned as possible products of the new Colonv, although no ship- ments seem to have been made at that time. E-VRLV SIIII'.MENTS TO ENGLAND It was not until about liiCiO, when the first settlers pushed south from \"irginia and settled along the north shore of Albemarle Sountl in what is Xorth Carolina, that the colo- nists came in contact with the vast forests of the pine barrens. Their first exploitation took place shortly after- wards, and by 1704 shipments of pine tar from the Carolinas to England am(.iunted to over 400 barrels per annum. Shortly after that the ex- haustion of the supply of naval stores obtained from the pitch pine forests in Xew England gave the industry an added impetus. It seems to have been about 17")0 that the prodtiction of turpentine and resin as well as tar and jiitch was undertaken. From the nfiddle of the eighteenth century till the
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