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£1,522 19s. 2d., making a total of £1,643 Is. 4.d. The income iVoni 

 the same woods is — timber, £3,705 ; liitterns and saplings, 

 £106 16s. 7d.; bark, £338 18s. Id.; poles, £200; cordwood, 

 56648 3s. 7d. ; miscellaneous, £3 4s. 8d,, together making the 

 receipts from sales of produce amount to £5,002 2s. lid., which, 

 with the value of trees, &c., from nurseries, rents, &c., brings the 

 total receipts to £5,377 12s. lOd., the income exceeding the expendi- 

 ture by £4,734 lis. 6d. 



For Alice Holt Woods, Hampshire, the expenditure is — for main- 

 tenance and general management, £632 16s. 9d., no planting having 

 been done during the year. The income is — from sales of produce 

 (saplings, poles, bark, cordwood, fagots, fathom-wood, &c.), 

 £1,174 9s. 9d. ; and from rents, shootings, timber, and wood fuel 

 used, £552 15s. 4d., making a total income of £1,727 5s. Id., which 

 exceeds the expenditure by £1,094 8s. 4d. 



The cost of maintenance and general management of Woolmer 

 Forest, Hants, is £101 19s. Id., no planting having been done here 

 either. The receipts from sales of produce (saplings, fagots, and 

 miscellaneous) is £474 Is. ; the value of timber used for repairs, &c., 

 £7 4s. 4d.; and the rent of land, £618, making the total income 

 £1,099 5s. 4d., exceeding the expenditure by £997 6s. 3d. 



For the maintenance and management of Bere Woods, Hants, there 

 is an expenditure of £743 4s. lid., and no charge for planting. The 

 income from sales of produce (bark, poles, cordwood, fagots, and 

 miscellaneous) is £1,580 2s. lOd. ; value of fuel wood and timber 

 used, and rent of cottages, land, &c., producing £157 13s. lOd. 

 making a total income of £1,746 16s. 8d., which exceeds the expendi- 

 ture by £1,003 lis. 9d. 



The expenditure forParkhurst Woods,Isle of Wight,is £272 8s. lid.; 

 no charge here either for planting. The income from sales of pro- 

 duce (bark, poles, fagots, boat-crooks, &c.), £387 3s. 9d. ; and from 

 the other sources, £33 5s. 6d., making a total income of £420 9s. 3d.^ 

 the balance of income over expenditu.re being £148 Os. 4d. 



The total receipts from the lioyal Forests and Woodlands men- 

 tioned (exclusive of Windsor Parks and Woods) is £33,129 Os. 8d. ; 

 and the total expenditure £18,519 10s. 2d., which shows that they 

 realized an income to the country for the year ending on the 31st 

 March last of the respectable sum of £14,609 10s, 6d. 



There is a farther amount of £4,322 14s. realized from the sales of 

 timber produce on the Crown estates in the various counties of Eng- 

 land and Wales, at an expenditure, so far as we can make it out from 

 the mixed way in which it is given, of about £500. 



These figures will give our readers some idea of the profits derived 

 from our royal forests, which we believe would be very much increased 



