LEE R's 
BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND 
AGRICULTURE SOCIETY. 
Articte I. 
Obfervations on the Management of Woods, and on the 
prefent fiate thereof, particularly in the Weftern 
Counties. 
[By Mr. Davis, of Loncieat, Steward to the 
Marquis of Baru. ] 
N confequence of the premium offered by the 
Bath and Weft of England Society, in the year 
1792, “ Tothe perfon who, on or before the firft 
* of November 1792, fhall write and fend to that 
« Society, the beft practical treatife on Planting and 
“the Management of Woods; together with the 
“ prefent ftate of the woods of this country, par- 
“ticularly in the Weftern Counties;” the writer 
hereof, who has, for near thirty years paft, been 
employed in the actual management of wood-land, 
to a very great extent, and who has, at this 
time, upwards of 2000 acres under his care, in 
the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorfet, Somerfet, 
VOL. VII. B. Gloucefter, 
