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C. STACKED WOOD FOR SPLITTING. 



As regards species ; oak, sweet-chestnut, alder and ash should 

 be placed separately, also conifers. 



Further separation into two or three classes, according to 

 dimensions and fissibility, is also necessary. This group must 

 always consist of sound wood. Stacked oak wood in the 

 Palatinate is divided into two groups, stave-wood and wood for 

 vine-props, the former into four, and the latter into two 

 classes ; wood of other species and coniferous wood are each 

 divided into three classes. 



The round pieces of stacked timber are divided according to 

 species into two classes of different dimensions. They are 

 used for vine-props, pit-props, and in lengths of 5 feet for 

 the manufacture of paper-pulp. 



D. BRUSHWOOD. 



1. Withes. 



2. Osiers for basket-making. 



3. Wood for brooms and pen-sticks. 



4. Wood for fascines. 

 .">. Thatching material. 

 6. Christ in as- trees. 



K. F I UK WOOD. 



1. Split billets, thoroughly sound wood, sub-divided into two 



classes according to size. 



2. Crooked billets, sound but knotty. 



3. Broken wood. Unsound split billets sub-divided into two 



classes according to the degree of unsoundness. 



4. Bound billets from stems. 



5. Bound billets from branches. 



6. Peeled round billets from oak-coppice grown for tan. 



7. Boot-wood. This may be divided into two classes, when 



it sells well. 



8. Large unsplit pieces. 



1). Small split billets fastened with withes (Fr. cotre.ts). 

 10. Faggots without twigs of larger wood from thinnings, 

 under 2^ inches in diameter. 



