Prices of Forest Produce. 3 5 



of this tree should always be grabbed out intact with the butts, as 

 they are often more richly mottled than the stem, and in consequence 

 tlie root end is often the most valuable portion of the tree, therefore 

 the roots should be measured along with the 'butt. Larch, Scotch 

 and spruce firs, find a ready sale. 



" The price of bark varies throughout the country, from £5 to £6 15s ., 

 the difference being chiefly caused by delivering the bark at the 

 nearest railway station, or at the tan yard; also some allow 20 cwt., 

 others 21 cwt. and 22 cwt. to the ton ; and on some estates it is 

 sold chopped and delivered in bags. It would be well when the price 

 of bark is quoted that the conditions of sale should be stated. 



" Pitwood is selling at fully 5s. per ton lower than it did two years 

 ago; first quality, larch, 14s. to 16s. per ton of 20 cwt. ; second do., 

 Scotch and spruce fir, &c., 12s. to i3s. 



"Underwood, 14 years growth, yields from £3 to £10 per acre ; it is 

 cut by our own woodman, and sold in drift lots, varying in length 

 from 50 to 400 perches each, at per perch. The chief trade for under- 

 wood produce in this neighbourhood is wattle hurdle-making for 

 sheep-pens ; they sell at 8s. to 10s. per doz. : other underwood produce 

 is as follows : — ash and Spanish chestnut poles (for fencing), 15s. to 20s. 

 per. ton; alder do. (for chair-making and brush heads), 10s. to 15s. 

 do.; fagots, 18s. to 20s. per 100 (of 6 score); spade and rake stems 

 9d. per doz. ; rose and dahlia stakes, 4d. per. doz. ; kidney beans do.^ 

 6d. to 9d. per bundle of 50 ; pea wood, 3d. to 4d. per bundle ; birch 

 for besoms, 4d. to 6d. per. bundle. Underwood in this locality is in 

 fair demand for hurdle-making material, being in great request gene- 

 rally realizes its worth." 



In Ireland, again, we have a different mode of selling felled timber 

 very prevalent, as, for instance, in county Tipperary. From a return 

 given us from Ballinscourt, we learn (and it is no unusual custom) 

 that the system of selling is by the ton weight or by the tree. Very 

 little is sold by measurement, unless special and gross trees. In county 

 Clare, distant fourteen miles from a railway station, clean oak, 

 suitable for spokes, fetches IBs. per ton ; if gross enough for ship- 

 building, 2s. to 2s. 4d. per cubic foot ; ash, Is. 4d. to Is. 8d. per cubic 

 foot ; beech under 15in. diameter at 11 feet, 6s. per ton, but when over 

 15in. diameter at 11 feet, £4 to £7 per log ; sycamore, 2s. 2d. per cubic 

 foot; birch, 7s. per ton; elm (gross), 2s. Od. per cubic foot; larch, 16s. 

 per ton ; Scots fir, 8s. per ton ; crab apple of 9in. diameter, 2s. 6d. to 

 3s. 6d. per lineal foot ; oak bark, £7 10s. per ton, delivered in rick. 

 In Tipperary, 5,000 tons of larch thinnings, thirty years old, have been 

 sold from one estate at 18s. per ton, to be felled and removed at pur- 

 chaser's expense. Larger trees at from 20s. to 22s. per ton; Scots fir 

 thinnings, 8s. perton. 



