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rougher description, but sound and suitable for planking, 1s. 10d. 
per cubic foot; clean-grown ash, 2s. 6d. per cubic foot; beech, 
20 inches on the side and upwards, ts. to 1s. 4d. per cubic foot; 
English elm, up to 1s. per cubic foot. Good clean willow, 
suitable for cricket bats, etc., is readily bought up at 2s. 6d. per 
cubic foot; and hardwoods of small dimensions, such as beech, 
birch, lime, sycamore, horse chestnut, etc., bring 6d. to gd. per 
cubic foot. Larch is becoming scarce, and from ts. to ts. 2d. per 
cubic foot is the ruling price standing in the wood; while Scots 
pine and spruce run from 4d. to 8d. per cubic foot, according to 
quality and dimensions. W. STORIE, 
Whitway House, Newbury, Berks. 
PROFITS FROM TIMBER-GROWING IN HAMPSHIRE. 
It is not by any means an easy matter to estimate what some 
soils will produce in the way of timber-crops, but from what 
has come under my own observation in parts of England and 
Scotland where timber-growing has received some attention 
the results have been most encouraging. 
Of course, where no record of intermediate returns has been 
kept, one can only calculate what the crop of timber on the 
ground is worth, but an approximate estimate of income may be 
formed. For example, in the case of an oak plantation which 
has been properly tended, and on suitable soil, at 100 years 
of age, the value of the intermediate returns may be taken 
at about equal to the final fall, and the same may be said of 
healthy larch plantations at 60 years of age; while in the case 
of Scots pine and spruce at 80 years of age, these may be taken 
at one-half the final fall. 
The following notes regarding prices obtained for timber on 
the Earl of Carnarvon’s Highclere Estates, in North Hampshire, 
may be of interest. 
Three acres of land were planted thickly with acorns about 
the year 1805. ‘The soil was a strong sandy loam, on a poor 
sandy subsoil, not by any means what might be considered 
a good soil for oak. The timber, although of good proportions, 
was therefore not of the best quality, some of it being a little 
shaken. Notwithstanding this, however, the amount realised 
for the timber from this piece of land from 1go1 to 1905 works 
