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error an error of judgment the strong, the ardent 

 desire that I have to see introduced the correction 

 of what I have, at least, deemed to he, a serious 

 mischief. 



If Hedge-row Timher has heen " misman* 

 aged" and who can douht it on whom shall the 

 blame fall ? As I have more than once said be- 

 fore, not on a class of men who, from their educa- 

 tion, must necessarily be limited to the mechanical 

 duties connected with their office, but on the 

 Owners of Timber, from whom either directly, or 

 through the agency of persons duly qualified, such 

 rules and regulations ought to proceed, as would 

 insure a better system of management. Practices 

 are allowed, and such a state of things is permitted 

 by the proprietors of Hedge-row Timber, as abun- 

 dantly prove that many of them have never either 

 understood its value, or given themselves the trou- 

 ble to enquire whether it was under a course of 

 suitable treatment or not. 



I have stated that I consider the question 

 which I am handling a difficult one. I feel it to 

 be so not because I have any difficulty in prov- 

 ing "mismanagement" on the part of those who 

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