MANAGEMENT AND SALE OF TIMBER. 



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endeavour to show in a more general way the current prices of 

 the various sorts of home-grown timber, and will state a few 

 of the reasons, and causes of the difference of prices, and of 

 the various expenses connected with bringing the produce of 

 woods into the market under various forms and conditions. 

 The object of the writer is to show the prices proprietors are, 

 or ought to be, receiving for the produce of their woods ; but 

 this is a difficult thing to accomplish without comparison with 

 foreign produce. Nor can the value of rough wood be shown 

 to advantage without referring to the manufactured produce. 



The following list of prices is applicable to rough wood in 

 the county of Edinburgh. The prices are what may be termed 

 wholesale, or those which proprietors obtain as clear returns for 

 their timber. The quotations are partly collected at wood sales, 

 and partly supplied by persons in the wood trade. The wood 

 in this instance is understood to be cut down, and pruned of 

 its branches, to be of sound quality, and in a convenient place 

 for loading : — 



1. Larch, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do., 



2. Scots Pine, 1st quality, root cut. 



Do. 2nd do. do , 



3. Spruce, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do., 



4. Ash, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do, 



5. Elm, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do , 

 G. Beech, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do., 

 7. Oak, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do , 



S. Sycamore, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do., 



9. Birch, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do.. 



10. Alder, l6t quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do., 



11. Poplar, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do , 



12. Lime, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do 1 ., 



13. Sweet Chesnut, 1st quality, root 



cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do. 



14. Willow, 1st quality, root cut, 



Do. 2nd do. do. 



In disposing of timber at the above quotations, the proprietor 

 must calculate upon a reduction equal to the amount of the 

 expenses of cutting down and preparing the wood for sale, and 

 including also the expenses of the sale itself. 



In measuring timber in this district the common practice is 

 as follows : — The trees are measured trunk and limb out as far 

 as they girth 24 inches, 4 inches are allowed on the girth as 



