PLAN FOR BL.VCKMOOR, BRADSHOTT, AND TEMPLE WOODS. 199 



Past Revenue and Expenditure. — The revenue credited to the 

 woods for timber and coppice used on the estate, or coppice sold to 

 purchasers, and the expenditure incurred on woods and plantations, 

 can only be given since 1894-9-*). These are as follows : — 



The apparent deficits hereby indicated during the last three years 

 include, however, the formation of 23^ acres of new plantations. 

 The cost of these cannot be accurately determined from the estate 

 books, but they may be taken to have been altogether about £8 an 

 acre. Hence this sum of about £186, invested as capital in new 

 plantations, may be deducted from the expenditure above shown, 

 in order to show the true financial position of the copsewoods. The 

 expenditure also includes £118, wages of a permanent staff of wood- 

 men (one foreman and two woodmen). 



Utilisation of the Produce. 



The Marketable Products consist of oak and ash timber from the 

 standards in the copses ; of cordwood for charcoal, used locally for 

 hop-drying; larch posts (2^ inches to 6 inches top diameter) for 

 permanent posts and wire in the hop-gardens ; poles of all kinds 

 for the hop-gardens ; small coppice-wood for hurdles, hedging-rods, 

 pea-sticks, and bavins (faggots), as firewood for domestic use, 

 bakehouses, etc. 



Oak bark is saleable, and when large oaks are felled they are 

 always barked. The price is now, however, so exceedingly low as 

 to make the barking of oak no longer so profitable as formerly. 



Markets. — The purchasers of timber come from the neighbour- 



