CHAPTEE XV. 



WEIGHT OF WOOD AND BRANCHES. 



It is the size, quality, and usefulness of the timber 

 that are generally looked at from a commercial stand- 

 point, but there are other views to be taken of the 

 subject, some of a truly practical, and others of a 

 theoretical, but no less interesting nature. Those 

 deeply and warmly interested in the culture of trees 

 like to know everything about them, small and great, 

 and if there are any real or supposed mysteries or 

 secrets. Such invariably form the subjects of greatest 

 solicitude. 



On looking at a goodly plantation, of say fifty years' 

 growth, one is prompted to inquire, not only how 

 many cubic feet of wood there are per acre, but what 

 the weight of the whole wood is, including or exclud- 

 ing branches. If the plantation be a young and growing 

 one, it is important to know how much is added to 

 the weight of the crop every year it stands, and if 

 the whole produce is to be carted off to a distance of 

 say ten miles to a railway station, what it will cost to 

 do so, or how much is to be deducted from the value 

 of the standing crop as allowance for cartage. 



