5/6 The yournal oj Forestry. 



The felling of timber for sales should also be carried on with vigour. 

 If the trees are more than eighteen inches in diameter, and cut with 

 the axe, the men should work in fours, as this arrangement is found 

 to be the most profitable in the long run. Every tree, as it falls, 

 should be dissected and made ready for lotting, by so doing you keep 

 the men's feet clear, and the work goes on with more expedition. 

 When arranging the wood for sale avoid as much as possible long 

 distances between the lots, for if the buyers are tired out by an un- 

 necessary long journey, it is almost certain the competition will fall 

 off. As a rule, every forester will make it his business to learn be- 

 forehand the different classes of buyers likely to attend the sale, and 

 he should make it a point to have something for everybody, both as 

 regards the kinds of wood, as well as the size of the lots. It is only 

 by so doing that any degree of spirited bidding and popularity can 

 be secured for a sale. 



Along with this heavy timber cutting it will be necessary also to 

 lay in a quantity of faggotwood, where such is required for the " big- 

 house." The brush of the elm and beech is very suitable for this 

 purpose when mixed up with that of young suckers, which are very 

 plentiful on every estate. Pine or firwood of any kind is objection- 

 able, owing to its liability to spark. Cut as much of this stuff as will 

 last throughout the year, so as to make sure of having a good supply 

 of dry kindling always on hand. 



Foresters in charge of sawmills driven by water-power, should take 

 advantage of the winter months in getting sawing operations well 

 forward. No estate should be without an open shed where cut wood 

 can be stored up to dry. There should also be a simple appliance for 

 charring and tarring gate and paling posts as a means of protecting 

 them from decay, and which could be done in rough weather when 

 the men are shut out from their regular work. If time can be spared, 

 the leaves should be raked off the plantation drives. They will be 

 found to have drifted into large heaps by the late gales, and will have 

 a most injurious effect upon the grass if allowed to lie and rot over 

 the winter. 



Dalkeith Park. EOBEET BAXTER. 



lEELAND. 



No time should now be lost in planting forest trees. The 

 present season has been a very late one, so much so, that many of our 

 oaks and elms are as green as they were at midsummer, but the wood 

 is perfectly ripe, and they will receive no hurt by being immediately 

 removed to their final situations. In removing the plants the forester 

 ought to guard against exposing the roots to either sun, wind, or frost. 



