THINNING. I O I 



the trunks of clean growth, little of it is used, 

 except for fuel and fishcuring, for which purposes 

 from I OS. to I2s. per ton is given in the wood, or 

 2 OS. delivered. 



No. 24 is a mixed, or rather grouped plantation, 

 about seventy-five years old, and has been cut from 

 during several years, to the extent of about one-half of 

 the crop, so that what is here reported upon is about 

 half of what should have occupied the ground, and 

 shows very conclusively the great advantage of a 

 grouped crop of trees over that of a general mixed 

 one. 



The inducements to construct the annexed tables 

 were to save time and labour in putting down such 

 particulars as are necessary to be shown, and at the 

 same time to avoid the necessity of entering upon cal- 

 culations — to many a dreaded task. It is not presumed 

 that the tables are perfect, or that they embrace every 

 particular, for to make them so would practically put 

 them into disuse, as scarcely any forester would be 

 induced to use them. But in their present form they 

 are at least so simple, and require so little time to 

 keep them posted, that no one who keeps accounts at 

 all would think it any undue labour to use them ; and 

 less than five years would satisfy any one that the 

 labour was well bestowed. 



The auction sales book referred to is not shown, as 

 its use is so simple that one line might explain it. It 

 shows the number of lots sold, the purchasers' names. 



