. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. IMPKOVED METHOD OF ORCHARDING. 71 colleetpd in a barrel, -where it separates from the water and is then immediately transferred into barrels. After the oil has ceased to run freely the heating of the still and the intlux of water has to be carefully regulated. After all the spirits of turpentine has been distilled over, the fire is removed and the contents of the still are drawn off by a tap connected with the bottom. This residuum, molten rosin, is at first allowed to run through a wire cloth and is immediately strained again through coarse c
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. IMPKOVED METHOD OF ORCHARDING. 71 colleetpd in a barrel, -where it separates from the water and is then immediately transferred into barrels. After the oil has ceased to run freely the heating of the still and the intlux of water has to be carefully regulated. After all the spirits of turpentine has been distilled over, the fire is removed and the contents of the still are drawn off by a tap connected with the bottom. This residuum, molten rosin, is at first allowed to run through a wire cloth and is immediately strained again through coarse cotton cloth or cotton batting, made for the purpose, into a large trough, from wliicli it is ladled into barrels. The legal standard weight of the commercial package is 2S(( pounds gross. A turpentine distillery on the basis of twenty crops jjroduces on the average during the four years that the boxes are worked 2,400 casks or 120,000 gallons of spirits of turpentine and about 12,000 barrels of rosin or 2,800,000 pcmnds, the lowest grades. B and A, excluded, a total value of about $00,000 at average prices. The jjrices of spirits vary at present from 28 to 40 cents a gallon, even through the same season, according to supply and demand in the market. The average quotations on December 30, 1892, at Wilmington were 28 cents for spirits and .'^ for a barrel of rosin down to grade C. COST OF ESTABLISHING A PLANT ANK WORKING THE CROPS. Timber lands with the privilege of boxing the timber for a term of four years are rented at the rate of $50 per crop of 10,000 boxes, or 200 acres. The establishment of a plant for the working of twenty crops, or 4,000 acres of timber land, requires an investment of about $5,000, including the buiklings, stills, machinery for pumping water, tools, and teams. Accord- ing to the statements of an experienced operator, the cost of working the trees of one crop during the four years, which is mostly done by the job—that is, the making and cornering of
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