CcpsE Woops. 47 
kept separate, and weighed so as to ascertain the exact value, 
and it may interest you to hear the results. 
FIRST ACRE. 
re C2 QQ: 
23 3 3 Bobbin wood at 14s ake ase a kon + 6 
@ 19 0 Hoops at 16s ... ak he eC ae 015 0 
CEO) 0 Bark at £6... es oe bs af 3.0 0 
Firewood and props ... wi ie ah 310 0 
£23 9 6 
Pd. cutting and carting bobbin wood and hoops £8 8 0 
Pd. chipping bark, carriage and cutting ae 207 30 
— 10 8 0 
Net balance aie Sah re os espe ctls) sal lela 
SECOND ACRE. 
ie 1c. QQ. 
Oy 2 2 Bobbin wood at 14s .. a se Aes ilk 
3 4 3 Hoops at 16s ... oa a ae of hone 
o 16 0 Bark at £6 416 0 
Firewood and props ... 118 3 
216 7 7 
‘Cutting and carting bobbin wood and hoops... £4 13 0 
‘Cutting, chipping, and carting bark _... aah 3.4 0 
SS AM 
Net value... Pe aie wae Reo MLOU WT 
Compare this with what was got for the wood on Lochanhead 
estate about ten years ago, which was at the rate of £4 an acre, a 
price which I fear it would be impossible to get to-day for the 
very best copse of 20 to 25 years’ growth. If the Kirkennan 
wood, which was of 25 years’ growth in 1875, yielded in the one 
case about 10s 6d an acre per annum, and in the other about 
7s an acre per annum, whereas the Lochanhead wood of 25 
years old would only be 3s 3d per acre per annum, and the 
wood I mentioned at the beginning of my paper 3s 2d per acre 
per annum, as against about 22s per acre per annum 
of 40 years ago; it is evident, then, that wood of this 
‘class has ceased to be a remunerative crop, and the question 
comes—what should be done with our existing copse woods? 
No single answer can be given to this question; each case must 
be considered on its merits. Professor Schlich, in a recent book 
on British forestry, deals with this question, and suggests that 
perhaps the best way is, when the copse has been cut over, to 
