452 The Journal of Forestry. 



The expenditure upon the New Forest, Hampshire, for the same 

 period, is, for planting, &c., including value of trees and plants removed 

 from the home nurseries to the plantations, i^l,239 8s. 2d. ; for main- 

 tenance and general management there is a sum of i;;2,27o 17s. lOd. 

 expended for salaries and allowances to a deputy surveyor and three 

 assistants, a clerk, seven foresters, eleven woodmen, constables, allow- 

 ances for horses, &c. ; the cost of labour, and material (including value 

 of forest timber, &.Q,., used) in maintaining the forest and preparing 

 the produce for sale is £4,397 14s. Id. To this is to be added the value 

 of fuel wood assigned in the forest, the cost of machinery, implements, 

 criminal prosecutions — a rather expensive item, costing £250 19s. lid. ; 

 expenses of the sales and of forest officers, compassionate allowances 

 (£270), destroying vermin, keep of hounds, cost of pheasants (^£100), 

 and other miscellaneous items, amounting in all to ill ,074 16s. 3d., 

 which makes the total expenditure for the New Forest £8,987 16s. 4d. 

 The income from sales of produce, including timber, ^0106 2s, 6d. ; 

 bark, il,814 15s. 3d. ; poles, £4,135 4s. 3d. ; cordw^ood, £62 10s. ; 

 fagots, £841 2s. 8d; fathom-wood, £217 4s. 6d. ; miscellaneous 

 wood, &c., £493 13s. lOd. ; oak, fir, and holly plants, £84 6s. 8d. ; 

 and boat-crooks, £138 3s. Sd., amounting to £7,893 13s. 4d. The 

 value of trees and plants removed from home nurseries to plantations, 

 of timber used for lodges, fences, &c., and of fuel wood assigned in 

 the forest being £461 4s. 6d. ; the rent of cottages, with land and 

 tilery, £580 7s. 4d. ; forest dues and pannage, £152 5s. ; and the fees 

 for licence to sport over the forest £1,120 : the total income from the 

 New Forest being £10,207 10s. 2d., with a balance in favour of the 

 proceeds over the cost of £1,319 13s. lOd. 



The expenditure for the Dean Forest, Gloucester, is, for planting, 

 &c., including labour, materials, plants, &c., £325 4s. 8d. ; and for 

 maintenance and general management, including salaries and allow- 

 ances to officers, £1,850 Is. 6d. ; labour and materials, £3,170 5s. lOd. ; 

 value of fuel wood allowed to foresters, &c., and other general ex- 

 penses, £792 10s. lOd., making a total of £6,138 2s. lOd. The 

 receipts from the sales of produce are — timber, £184 9s. 8d. ; fiitterns 

 and saplings, £278 7s. lOd. ; bark, £1,761 18s. 9d. ; cordwood, 

 £7,791 16s. 7d. ; and miscellaneous wood, &c., £68 18s. lOd., 

 amounting in all to £10,085 lis. 8d. The value of trees and plants 

 brought from home nurseries to plantations, of timber used for 

 repairs, &c., of fuel wood allowed to foresters, &c., rent of land, rail- 

 ways, &c., brings in a sum of £2,464 9s. 8d., making up a total income 

 of £12,550 Is. 4d., which gives a balance in favour of the income 

 over the expenditure of £6,411 18s. 6d. 



The expenditure for High Meadows Woods, Gloucester, is, for 

 planting, &c., £120 2s. 2d. ; for general management and maintenance 



