118 REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT AND VALUE OF POPLAR. 



Table showing the Results of the Experiment on the Oat Crop 1865. 



REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT AND VALUE OF POPLAR. 

 By C. Y. Michie, Forester, Cullen House, Cullen. 



[Premiicm — Five Sovereigns.] 



No person forty or even twenty years ago could well have fore- 

 seen or predicted the present demand for, and consumption of 

 poplar wood, because one of the principal appliances of it had not 

 then been called into full and active operation, by the great and 

 important changes that have since taken place in the formation 

 of railways throughout Great Britain, which, during the latter 

 period, have been increasing at the rate of about 650 miles 

 annually. In 1860 it was estimated that about 10,000 miles of 

 railway were in working operation throughout this country, or, 

 taking into account the double and often treble lines at stations, 

 amounting to 3000, and reducing all such lines to single ones, the 

 total extent of single line of railway would be about 18,000 miles. 

 Some idea may be formed of the vast consumption of poplar, alder, 

 willow, and lime-tree, for break-blocks alone, from the fact, that 

 even on the Highland Railway and its branches, the single line of 

 railway, including the double lines at stations between Perth and 



