THINNING. 9 1 



The plantation was formed in 1826, as shown in 

 the table, and contains in round numbers sixty-three 

 acres. At date of report it contained an average of 

 290 trees per acre, namely, 266 Scotch pine, 12 

 larch, 4 spruce, and 8 various. The value of the 

 whole plantation was ;^I044. Its state of growth was 

 fair, making annually 17s. per acre. The transferable 

 value was £16 per acre, and prospective value when 

 sixty years old £26 per acre. This plantation having 

 been several times thinned, and now fifty-four years 

 old, is understood to have repaid the original cost, 

 hence in making up the transferable value no allow- 

 ance is made for such outlay, but the value computed 

 at the true rate of growth. 



By referring to Table No. III. (thinnings), it wiU be 

 found that ISTo. i was thinned in 1870, and that 

 3720 trees were cut and sold by auction, which re- 

 alised £io'S>, 5s. 6d. The cutting, lotting, and pre- 

 paring for sale cost £2 2,, 6s. id., and expenses of sale 

 itself about £^. 



Brains. — It will be seen by referring to Table Xo. 

 y. that there are 7860 yards of open surface drains 

 much grown up, which require cleaning out and deep- 

 ening. 



Fenchig. — There are 3432 yards of turf dyke on the 

 plantation in a broken-down and fenceless condition, 

 which was well repaired in 1870, by making up all 

 gaps in the dyke, and erecting a three-wire fence on 

 top, with larch posts, and iron strainers, and winding 

 brackets, for the sum of ;^ioo, 2s. 



