THINNING. 97 



otherwise, and being of super-excellent quality, is much 

 prized for that purpose. 



[N'o. lo is a mixed crop of larch and Scotch pine, 

 succeeding one of pine. It was planted in 1858, and 

 comprises 3 6 J acres. It was thinned for the first time 

 during the past summer, but the inferior trees only 

 being cut, no money could be got for them ; and the 

 work of thinning, which was performed with handbills, 

 cost about 5 s. per acre, thus adding, as it were, that 

 amount to the cost of planting, &c. 



On valuing the crop after being thinned out, the 

 following are the results : — Larch, 317, Scotch pine, 

 270, and 2 beech — equal to 589 trees in all per acre. 

 Top growth, 500 lineal feet per acre, value 20s. Value 

 of the whole plantation, ;^32 6, 5s. Transferable value, 

 £^, and prospective value at sixty years' growth, ;^3 5 

 per acre. 



ISTo. II is an extensive mixed fir plantation, on the 

 summit of a high hill, some parts of which are thriving 

 remarkably well, and others upon pan remain only 

 stunted bushes. An old roadway through one of those 

 zones of pan had at one time been carted upon and 

 broken up with the cart-wheels. This roadway pre- 

 sents all the appearance of a trenched belt, the trees 

 being well grown upon it and healthy, thus showing 

 the necessity of breaking the moor-pan previous to 

 planting. The crop of wood on the roadway is worth 

 ;^20 per acre, while that on each side of it is not 

 worth a shilling. 



