VALUE AS A CEOP. 1 6/ 



The following is an example given of the value of a 

 crop of larch in the county of Huntingdon, the pro- 

 perty of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. This plan- 

 tation was originally a very large one and the first 

 planted upon the estate, but the part to which the 

 annexed statements apply composed the last part 

 of the clearing, twelve acres, at fifty years old. The 

 plantation was sold in 1864, and realised the following 

 amount, stated thus : — 



1300 trees, containing altogether 10,000 cubic feet, at 



IS. 2d. per foot jCS^S 6 8 



And 43 tons larch bark at 40s. per ton . . . 86 o o 



£669 6 8 



Or thus: — £66g, 6s. 8d. -e 12 acres = ^5 5, 15s. 

 6hl per acre. 



The following is a statement of some interest upon 

 the cultivation of larch grown on the Duke of Bedford's 

 estate in Xorthamptonshire, parish of Thornhaugh : — 



The plantation comprises an area of 5 5 acres, upon 

 rather stiff but dry soil, resting upon limestone rock. 

 This enclosure, previous to cropping with larch, bore 

 a crop of oak and ash, which was cut down and the 

 ground trenched and replanted. 



It was planted with larch at the rate of 4000 trees 

 per acre, and thinned at twenty-three years old, 

 yielding to the amount per acre of . 



The expense of thinning was iSs. per acre — deduct 



Standing upon the ground after thinning, 1 000 per 

 acre, at is. 6d 



Xet value of crop per acre at twenty-four years' gTowth 



