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16 S. Planter: Devoted Agric. Hort. & House. Arts 1 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/southplnter0016 and id is 1 raw text is: THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. Deiotcb to 2lgrltulture, Nortfculture, atti the 7otschola via. Agriculture is the nursing mother of the Arts.- Tillage and Pasturage are the two breasts of the Xenophion. )State.-SO/.. F. G. RUFFIN & N. AUGUST, Pnorn's.-FRANK: G. RUFFIN En,'ron.-T. BAILIE, PtBLISiER. VOL. XVI. IllCIMOND, JzNUARIY, 18M6. No. 1. TURPENTINE. March. or a little later if thespring is back- rn~~ ~M.,c e~n t9e,,azcH 'fa,'a wa wid and co.d and the turpen1tine does, not Hins for those al bou tocapge l i:'s Ma1n,1facturd,. FITUATION. The boxes must be cut low down- Select your plantation as near a distillery in small trees within six or eight inches of the as you can; but you may do a very profitable ground, and ten or twulve inches in large business six or seven miles off, if the- country trees. This will be at the swell of the roots, is favorable for hauling. If the distillery is wherc the sap-wood is deepest, nd the tree on a river, turpentine may be hauled two or least weakened by the cut, and because the three miles and rafted down forty or fifty drip is more certain to fall into tie box when miles, cheaper than to haul to the still over it is cut in Ihe projecting wood. And for this six or seven miles. Yet persons already set- last reason, when the tree is not tpright, a box tied on thin pine lands, can do better to make mtst never be cut on the side to which it turpentine and haul it ten ortwelve miles, than l at anything else they make for market. 3d. The boxshould be from eight to fifteen TIMBER. inches long, measuring across the tree, accord- Thebet tee ar yt~a, ~, prttyth'i~i' ~ I in~ to its size. The lower edge or rim of the Thleb t ap must be a level cut, very smooth, and good soil, of quick growth, haiItems good~~~~~ sol fqic rw aving the most, have a, down slope inwards of two or three sap-wpod. If found on low, level' or moistj inches below the outer edge. The depth from lands, they will yield all the better. Drysea- three to four inches, capable of holding a sons are unfavorable for a large crop of tur- qart or more unless in a small tree. As a pentine, and, of course, trees on lands that g suffer easily from drouth, are least profitable. gnea re he cth d en rlt Old yellow pines run badly, and are only worth boxing when standing amidst better 4th. Tie size of the tree determines the timber. number of boxes it will bear and keep healthy. The thicker the growth stands the better, as Trees under a foot thick should have but one close forests are less injured by hard winds box; those from twelve to twenty inches than those more open, while the hand has less thick two boxes, and never more than three in ,round to walk over in attending his task. any tree. Of course where the trees ar sat- Forests that will not afford a task of 12 000 tering it may be better to cut more boxes, even >oxes on 200 acres or less, are hardly worth if the trees do not last as long, than to lose vorking, unless they are very near the still, or too much time with your hands. Mater carriage to it. 5th. The task for prifie experieneed bands BOXING. As the future profit of the business depends chiefly on doing this part of the work well, let it be carefully attended to, observing the fol- lowing instructions lst. In our climate (Florida and South- western Georgia) this work must be done be- tween the 1st of November and the 1st of VOL. XVI.-1 - is from 450 to 500 boxes a week, or 75 to 80 a day. And some expert bands will gain a day and do their work well. - Such hnds should be encouraged by receiving pay' for extra work. But most beginners will not cut at first more than 50 boxes a day, and there is nothing gained by tasking them too high, until they have got well used to the proper shape and size of boxes.. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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