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the feller, is (in the opinion of the writer of this) 
to cut it at the feller’s expence before it is fold; to lay 
it out in ranges or drifts, according to the cuftom 
of the country; to value it in that ftate, and fell it 
in fuch fized lots as the number of buyers will 
warrant; (always keeping up a fufficient number to 
make a compctition) and particularly to oblige the 
buyers to clear the whole out of the wood by the 
24th day of Fune, new flile, and never to fuffer them 
to bring their horfes into the woods (after any new 
fhoots are fhot out) without muzzling them, or at 
leaft tying up their heads. 
Timber growing in Woods.—In every wood where 
timber w// grow, it fhould by all means be encou- 
raged, and if it does not come up fpontaneoufly, 
fhould be planted. A proper quantity in woods is 
fo far from hurting the underwood, that it is both 
neceffary and ufeful, to fhelter the underwood and 
draw it to a proper height; but that quantity muft 
always be regulated, fo as to do as little damage 
to the underwood as poffible. Oak and afh timber, 
and in proper foils Spanith chefnut, are proper for 
woods. Beech fhould never be fuffered. It isa 
moft unneighbourly tree, and fhould not grow with 
any fort but its own—nothing can live under it. 
When the woods are cut, it is common and 
proper to cut fuch timber as begins to do damage, by 
its dropping, 10 the underwood below. This is the 
proper 
