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Falling and tying up cost £30, able-bodied men earning 18s. per 

 week. 



Tools and clothes cost each man about 2s. per week. 



The oaks, 89 in number, were taken down for the same as ash. Bark- 

 peeling, £1 per ton, yielded 11 tons of bark at £4 4s. per ton ; the trees 

 averaged 11 inches square. The timber valued at 2s. 6d. per foot, 

 1,600 top-wood fagots, 1,500 round wood at '3s. per score when sold, 

 sells for 3s. 4d. per score. 



The charge is 5d. a score fagots, and 5d. a score round wood. 



An oak which will realize £9 round measure will yield 33s. worth 

 of bark, and the fagots and topwood will sell for 25s. The cost will 

 be for five men to saw it down, peel, trim, and tie up, 17s. Gd. 



For trimming, or planting, loading, carting, and unloading, able- 

 bodied men get 2s. 6d. per day. 



To get out fo the wood 1,500 fagots or topwood requires four horses, 

 one driver, one pitcher, one loader, one unloader, and twq stackers. 



In my previous remarks I alluded to the distinction between the 

 honesty of policy and the honesty of prmciple. The difference is 

 obvious in the matter of trees being sawn down and chopped down. 



{To he continued.) 



Arbutus Unedo. — Judging from comments which have appeared in recent 

 issues of the Gardener s Chronicle, this shrub is considered by many as only 

 fit for very sheltered positions, in consequence of whicli it is not as extensively 

 planted as it otherwise might be. The branch which I forward for your in- 

 spection has been cut from a huge bush growing here in the shrubbery in 

 company with a host of other things common to such places, and is planted 

 without any apparent regard to shelter being afforded it by its companions. 

 As we are situated only six miles south of Manchester, I think this is argument 

 sufiiciently strong in favour of its hardiness, while as to effectiveness it is 

 always so, no matter whether divested of floral attractions or enhanced by 

 them, but doubly so when, as now, it is covered with its crimson fruit. — 

 J. Brierley, T/ie Toivers, JDidshnry. 



Swine as Destroyers of Field Vermin. — A Posen farmer, writing to the 

 " Landwirth," insists upon the great value of swine as exterminators of field 

 mice and other vermin. He believes that the terrible plagues of mice now so 

 prevalent in many parts of Germany are in great measure due to the present 

 system of keeping swine penned up, instead of allowing them the range of the 

 fields, as was formerly the custom. He states that a careful observer may 

 often detect pigs in the act of snapping up and devouring a good-sized mouse, 

 besides which they have an extraordinary keen scent for the nests, grubbing 

 them up most artistically in search of the young mice, which they eagerly 

 devour in situ. The fields that have been cropped with lupines or oats, the 

 swine, when turned in, invariably select the spots where the ricks have stood 

 to grub in, not, as niiglit be thought, in search of stray grain that may 

 lie there, but because theae particular places are swarming with mice nests. 



