466 SALES. [Nov. 



new fences of various kinds and repairing old ones. Planting in tlie 

 forest generally and removing single ornamental trees and shrubs. 

 Making new roads and keeping old ones in repair. Filling in tracts, 

 keeping the side ditches clean and clear of soil, leaves, etc. 

 Charcoal-making to be completed for the season. 



The sawmill and timber yard may now be supplied, and all 

 blown trees and odd pieces collected and sawn into whatever they 

 are fit for. Plants may now be lifted, and all ground not under 

 trees dug over or trenched as required. Hedges now to be pruned, 

 and all overgrown ones reduced and put into shape. Winter 

 digging of young hedges to be carried on as weather allows. 

 New hedges to be formed, and in doing so, great pains should be 

 taken in trenching the ground properly, as little can be done after- 

 v/ards if not done before planting. C. Y. MicniE. 



CuLLEN House, 21st October 1885. 



Sales. 



THE annual wood sales in the plantations of Cullen House took 

 place on Saturday the 24th October, when there was as usual 

 a very large attendance, and the excellent quality of the wood brought 

 purchasers from long distances. Larch, ash, elm, and wood for country 

 purposes in general sold at their ordinary prices, and for which 

 there was keen competition. Basket willows and brushwood also 

 brought good prices, fully equal to former years. The demand for 

 burnwood was rather less than last year, and prices were behind, 

 fully 10 per cent. The best oaks and Scotch firs for boat-building 

 brought fair prices, though hardly up to former years, while for 

 timber of the second class there was very little demand. The 

 circumstance accounted for, of the failing demand, is that less than 

 half the usual number of boats are contracted for building this year 

 that were in former years. 



Chips. 



Grass under Trees. — When diffi- The Boston Journal says the real 



culty is experienced in keeping grass destroyer of the forests is the careless 



green under trees in open woods, parti- sportsman or hunter, who carelessly or 



cularly pine woods where the shade criminally leaves his camp fire to spread, 



is continuous the year round, sov/ a running over, very frequently, thou- 



little nitrate of soda occasionally sands of acres, utterly destroying the 



throughout the growing season when growth. The careless forest tramp 



the weather is moist. This will bring destroys annually thousands of acres of 



a fine crop of verdure pleasing to the forests where the lumberman de])rives 



eye and agreeable to cattle. one acre of land of its forest growth. 



