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sold at 8d. per score, and are about 2 inches in diameter and 5 feet 

 long; net-stakes, which are straighter and stronger, sell at 18d. per 

 score; rails sell about Id. per yard, and may be described as a size 

 less than pit prop-wood. Small wood tied up in faggots is unsale- 

 able in that part of the country, no brick ovens being used. There 

 is a partial call for the small top-wood at Is. per cart-load. No 

 doubt in future the increased price of coal will create a greater 

 demand for all sorts of firewood throughout the country. 



In Scotland there is little demand for small top-wood, which is 

 either burned up or left for game cover. There is also little done in 

 tin- way of disposing of the rods cut up in brushing a plantation, 

 although there are some exceptions. On some estates I have known 

 pea stakes sold at timber sales by auction. I have also known rods 

 for crate making being sent a distance of forty miles at a remunera- 

 tive price. There is no doubt that by a little exertion a market 

 might be found for a large quantity of such produce as above de- 

 scribed, at least on estates situated near a railway station, within 

 thirty or forty miles of a manufacturing town. 



