Plantations and Home Nurseries Competition, 1914. 195 



The system of book-keeping for the woods is exceedingly 

 good. A strict account is kept of all classes of material from 

 the area under treatment, including the numbers of posts, &c., 

 used on the estates, also of each item of expenditure incurred 

 in replanting. 



The third prize was awarded to Mr. C. Coltman Rogers for 

 the woodlands on his Stanage Park Estate, in Radnorshire. 

 The area under plantations is 870 acres, and the elevation 

 ranges between 400 and 1,400 ft. 



Considerable attention is paid to the ]Dlantations on this 

 estate from a sporting point of view, but this is not»allowed to 

 interfere with the scheme for gradually bringing the woods 

 under a proper system of management, with which a very good 

 commencement has been made. 



The owner considers that the shooting has really improved 

 since the plan of clear felling and restocking a portion of the 

 area each year has been introduced. It is thought that the 

 woodlands on this estate would be difficult to equal from the 

 point of view of woods managed for the production of timber 

 and sport combined, not, as is unfortunately too common, of 

 running the woods as a game preserve, and looking upon the 

 timber as a kind of " bye-product." 



Planting has been going on almost continuously from 1883, 

 the number of trees put out annually for 31 years is 17,853, the 

 average number per acre planted being 2,470. Beech, it may 

 be said, form about 5 per cent, of the total, and in this connec- 

 tion it may be noted that well-grown mature beech from this 

 estate has been sold recently at Is. 3f/. per cubic foot. 



Interesting and detailed accounts have been kept since 1869 

 of the number of trees of the different species planted each 

 year, with a note of the acreage, aspect, elevation, and full 

 particulars of each section so stocked. 



Larch thinnings find a ready sale, and the prices realised 

 seem very satisfactory. A consignment, the product of 500 

 poles, 9 ft. long by 1^ to 2 ins. diameter at the small end, 

 worked out as follo\\s : — 



T. c. 



1 17 tops at 20.V. 

 5 butts at 52.V. 



Total weiL'ht 6 17 



making the value in the wood 7-^d. per tree, while the cost of 

 conversion and haulage to the nearest station is put at Id. per 

 tree. 



The best use is made of all material pi'oduced, and all work 

 is done in a very thorough and economical manner. 



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