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FEDERAL
VOLUME I

GISTER
1934

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NUMBER 204

W ashington, Tuesday, December 29, 1926
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
1937 Naval S tores C onservation P rogram BULLETIN NO. 1 1

The Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to the authority vested in him by Section 8 of the S oil Conservation and Dom estic Allotm ent Act, approved February 29, 1936,2 pro poses to make payments to those producers of gum naval stores who operate their turpentine farm s in accordance with the procedure outlined below.
Definition of Terms 1. Turpentine farm.The land and turpentine timber owned or leased, or operated on a share-crop basis, and under one management, which is being operated for the production o f gum naval stores, and generally referred to as a turpentine place.
2. Gum Naval Stores.Crude gum oleoresin, gum ter pentine, and gum resin produced from live trees. Gum naval stores does not include naval stores produced from dead timber, stumps, knots, etc.
3. Producer.Any person or persons, firm, partnership, or corporation operating a turpentine farm or place whether wholly or partially under fee ownership, cash lease, per centage lease, or other control producing gum naval stores and regardless of how or where the raw product may be processed.
4. Face.The whole wound or aggregate of streaks made by chipping, streaking, or pulling live trees to stim ulate the flow of gum.
5. Cup.A m etal, clay, or other container hung on or below the face to accumulate the flow of gum , 6. Tins.The gutters or aprons; made of sheet m etal or other m aterial, used to aid in conducting the crude gum oleoresin from a face into a cup.
7. Crop.10,000 turpentine faces.
8. D. b. h.Diameter of tree measured at breast height, i. e., at 4 V2 feet from the ground.
9. Turpentine Season.The entire calendar year or such shorter period within the year during which a producer is operating his turpentine farm for the production of gum naval stores.
K ind of Payments Payment will be made to producers who in 1937 carry out the following approved practices with respect to turpentine places currently being worked for 1937 beginning on or 1 For the information of producers of gum naval stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. This bulletin explains the procedure to be followed in order to qualify for payments under the Naval Stores Conservation Program for 1937.
1 49 Stat. 1148.

w ithin tim e lim its to be established by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Duration of Program The period during which this program is to be in effect is the period January 1 to November 30, 1937, inclusive.
Conditions of PaymentPerformance required In order to qualify for payment, producers shall m eet the following requirements:
1 No new virgin faces shall be operated during the 1937 turpentine season on trees less than ninf inches d. b. h.
on any turpentine farm or portion of any such farm owned or controlled by the applicant producer whether such farm is covered by a work sheet and an application or n o t.
2 No faces either old or new shall be operated during the 1937 turpentine season on trees less than nine inches d. b. h. on any turpentine farm which is covered by a work sheet and an application.
3 Tins and cups m ust be removed, w ithin tim e lim its established by the Forest Service of the United States Depart m ent of Agriculture, from all trees less than nine inches d. b. h. on which faces have been operated prior to 1937, except that where trees have been boxed, i. e., cut into at the base of tree to form a cup, satisfactory evidence that such trees were not operated during the period of the program will be accepted as the equivalent of actual removal of tins and cups.
4 Any turpentine farm or place covered by a work sheet and an application shall be operated in accordance w ith the following recognized good turpentining practices:
a Streaks shall not exceed an average of % inrh in depth horizontally at the deepest point, exclusive of bark.
b Streaks shall not exceed an average of one-half inch in height vertically. Total streaks per face between January 1 and November 15, 1937, shall not exceed an aggregate total of 18 inches in vertical measurement average of measurements between shoulders of first streak and shoulders of last streak.
c Total height of face on any tree shall not exceed 90
inches at the beginning of the season in average vertical measurement between shoulders of first streak and shoulders of last streak including jump streaks.
d No tree shall have any new first-year back face unless a bark-bar on each side of the back face is pro vided, the total of the two being not less than 8 inches in width and the narrower of which is not less timn 3 inches in width, measured horizontally along the bark surface.
e No tree that is less than 14 inches d. b. h. shall have more than one face currently worked.
5 The applicant producer shall protect from fire the forest land within his turpentine farm owned, leased, or otherwise controlled during the 1937 turpentine season to the best of his ability, and in doing so, shall cooperate with 2566