200 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



hood of Basingstoke and Guildford, each about twenty miles 

 distant. For timber there is a steady market, and even the smaller 

 produce is always likely to be easily disposed of when not required 

 for estate purposes. 



Lines of Export. — The timber is conveyed by road to Liss 

 (4 miles), and thence by rail to Basingstoke or Guildford. 



Mode of Extraction and Its Cost. — The standards of the coppice 

 used for estate purposes are felled, barked, and extracted by estate 

 hands, while standards and coppice sold have hitherto been felled, 

 barked, and extracted by the purchaser. The work by estate 

 agency is all done on daily labour, at 2s. 6d. a day. 

 Felling of timber (also thinning and tending plantations) is done 



by daily labour, at 2s. 6d. a day. 

 The felling and barking of oak timber trees is either done by piece- 

 work at rate of 30s. to 35s. a ton (which is the common 

 system), or else by daily labour at 14s. a week and 2s. 6d. 

 extra. 

 Preparing and stacking cordwood and 



faggots off timber trees ; 

 Felling coppice-wood, stacking the 

 poles and bavins, and making 

 hurdles, 



Standards and coppice sold to purchasers are felled and extracted 

 by their own employes. 



Value of Each Class of Produce. 



Oak fetches Is. to 2s. per cubic foot, according to its dimensions 

 and quality, everything being saleable as timber, from about 1 foot 

 in mean diameter upwards. 



Ash fetches from Is. to Is. 6d. a cubic foot, according to size and 

 class, and is marketable as timber from about 6 inches in diameter 

 upwards. 



Other hardwoods have not yet been sold from the estate ; but the 

 larch posts, for permanent posts and wire in hop-gardens, are valued 

 (for estate purposes) at from 2s. 6d. to 5s. each (20 feet by 2| 

 inches to G inches top diameter). Softwoods have not yet been 

 sold from the estate as timber. 



Poles of larch, pine, hardwoods, and softwoods, all mixed as 

 they happen to come, sell for 8s. per 100 poles of 12 feet by 1 inch 

 to 1| inch. The 14-feet poles, with larger diameter, fetch 10s. 



are paid for by piecework 

 at local rates, according 

 to the particular class of 

 work. 



