THE BLACK FOREST.
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In some districts of tlie Black Forest resin is gained from pines and red firs by a peculiar mode of proceeding, callcd Tearing (Harzreissen)-. In spring great picces of bark, 3 feet in length by 2*/a inches in breadth, are eilt out from the trees selccted for this purpose, and the resin accumu- lating in the space laid bare by the knife of the forester, is gathered in the month of July: Tliis is repeated again in autumn, sometimes it is done even tbree times a year. The resin gained in this way then is boiled, pressed, and the fluid inass collected in small barreis ; after cooling it is sold linder the name of turpentine pitch, and very generally used for coating the inner side of becr-barrels. The refuse of the pitch is not thrown anay but burned in ovens constructed for this purpose, and the dense smoke escaping from the glow- ing mass made to pass through sacks fitted to the chimney, where it leaves great quantities of soot, which is employed in the manufacture of printing ink etc. —From the roots of firs and pines, tar is obtained by destillation, the secondary products of which consist in oil of turpentine and black pitch. — Therc are also large potash works in the Black Forest.
A source of great profits to the mountaineer is the beech-mast, which serves either to feed pigs, or oil is pressed from it, quite equal to olive-oil. — Experiments have shown, that 10 cubic feet of beech-nuts weighing 135 pounds, yield 87 pounds of kerneis, from which 13 measures (about 5% gallons) of oil are obtained. — The gathering of these nuts is the morc profitable, as it is generally done by children. — These little gentry indeed make themselves very useful in this country, and they are occupied during the whole season with gathering the va- rious sorts of wild fruit, with which the woods abound. The quantity of bilberries, cranberries, whortleberries,