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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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llowsthe destruction to go on. The Frenchhave a method of tapping trees whichgives a profitable return and leaves thetrees practically uninjured. In this wayan industry is perpetuated, but ourAmerican tapping is another thing. The trees are cut with a broad ax,hewing out great slices and leavingscars from which the resin flows intoboxes at the bottom of the cut and isscraped once a month into casks. Thecut is repeated each year, and in six orseven years the tree is exhausted. Sogo great forests of pine that standeighty to one hundred feet high, leavingus thousands of acres of standing lum-ber which will be cut down by portablesawmills. The end of it all is a hag-gard waste. The government of Georgia has in-stituted an investigation as to the moreconservative methods, and I believe isenforcing something of the kind in thatState. The principle of the whole busi-ness is After us the deluge. Georgiaand the Carolinas are pretty nearlystripped of pine, and Florida is follow-ing close after.
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55* THE OUTING MAGAZINE A forty-acre untapped pine wood Ifound lying along the lake to my left.I immediately bought it and am divid-ing it into homesteads, with convenientcottages. We call it Ozone Park, andhave named our first homestead RestCottage and the second one Peace Cot-tage. This gave me something likefifty acres of beautiful pine, to whichI was able to add lake frontage oftwenty acres more. Word came that the tappers wereabout to buy the pine bluffs across thelake. This would ruin the whole land-scape ; be not only a financial damage,but rob us of the glorious sunsets. Bid-ding quickly, we got it ourselves, andlittle by little we have been able toget possession of nearly the whole lakeand its surrounding acres. Still the range cattle were every-where, and forty cows would be at ourgarden fence every day. There wasnothing to do but to fence in our prop-erty, clean it up, and put up noticesthat forbade shooting inside our lines.The quail soon found it out, and cameto us, calli

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