The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-06-30
THE TURPENTINE BUSINESS.


other object in writing than to brn'ht the pine
region to hich he refers. We would respect
fully call the attention of four readers to the facts
disclosed, and remark, for the benefit OF those
owning large bodies of pine land, that have
been heretofore regarded as but OF little value,
,ha, the day may be near at hand when they
will find themselves the owners OF mines more
sure, not quite so profitable, as those OF Cali.
Enrnm:
MIR. EDITOR Thinking that you and yorr
readers might feel an interest in the following
information, it is at your service, to put in your
columns or under your table, as you may think
they he's, deserve.
METHOD TO DE OBSERVED IN MAKING IUR-
pEST1NE.-Box the tree after the sap Is gone
down and stop before it rises, therefore It Will
REQUIRE more hands to box than TO work the
trees. A good hand will cut from 30 to 90
quart boxes day some expert axmen IN Prac-
lice, NAV GU, 100, but it is very seldom such
hands are to he found. Care should tie taken
to cu, the box on the straight side OF The tree.
Some trees will contain from one to four boxes
owing to'lhe size oft. Care should be taken
to leave from to inches of sap and bark be.
tween faces. so as TO preserve the lite OF The
tree. Cutthe box from TO l-2 inches deep,
abou, inches wide, Go down the stump OF
,be tree so as to cut the heart as little as possi-
BILE. Clean out the chips and bark from the
boxes that your Turpeatine may he free oil them
The mex, work, after the box is cut, is to guage,
or corner, by few chops, commencing in the
edge Of the box, running up the tree widening 1t
the same time, so as to make channel tor The
,urpen,ine TO run into The boxes. 1t the face
is nearly foo, wide. say from ten to eleven
inches, then yom boxes, or at least a part OF
them, will fiji quickly, and you should have your
barrels ready so as to dip as last rs the boxes
6il. The next work, after the e17Huring is
done, is TO he done with a hatchet made for the
nnrnose then comes the round shave, you chip
two or three times with hatchet, keeping the
fare smooth. then begin with the round shave.
Never 90 into the tree more than LIZ or 5
grains of the wood and that should be repeated
every eiyht or nine days, never going up the
tree more than one.eigh,h OF an inch at chip
ping, that is with the round shave, the only
object is to keep the old cut fresh, you may 60
over every seven days as many persons do
4 hand can chip over his task in five days,
some will in less time. twenty-five hundred
is task for n good hand, then he has two days
TO din. if his trees run well and are thick, nc can
din three barrels day, if not. from Two to two
and half The timber Tor barrels should he
aoi in the winter, slaves 81 inches long, II IL
inches across; a common cooper will make
from tour to six good barrels day. An ave.
rage crop to the hand is 200 barrels per year,
which varies in prices from $3.50 to "a per
,u,Il chn
Having had considerable experience IN the
Turpentinc business in North Carolina, and
having spent several months past in examination
of the nine forests of South Carolina and Geor-
pia, have experimented, and give as The re-
srlls of my experiments the opinion, that n" re-
gion of The world offers greater inducements,
to embark in the business than the pine lands
of these two States. | have found the pine
trees in many sections so numerous as to he al
most inexhanslabc; while the yield, both tor
quantity and quality Of turpenline, is equal to
any have ever found in the best regions OF
North Coroina. Besides this. these immense
forests are adjacen, to navigable streams, or
railroads, connecting with seaport markets,
where the articles will always command remu.
nerating prices. have remarked with no little
surprise, the apathy which appears TO exist IN
regard TO the advantages that would appear
to result TO those sections of country by turning
portion of the labor now engaged in the co'ton
culture TO the ,urpeutine besiness. 1t requires
but little reflection or calculation to perceive
the benefits to be derived {; for, as hear from
cotton planters general, that not more than one
hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars can
be- made annually to the hand by the culture of
cotton. lam satisfied that three to four hun.
dred dollars can he made clear to every hand
put to the lurpentine bushes. II. b.
Hamburg Republican.
THE CREvAssE SToPpED.-We have nj
length the inexpressible pleasure of being able
to announce 10 our fellow citizens that the
Sanye crpyasse lha source of SO much evil to