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larger experience of home woods than any 

 other person, has given me some valuable and 

 interesting information regarding what he has 

 paid per acre for larch in various parts of 

 Scotland. In twenty years, between 1870 

 and 1890, Mr. Miller has cut down growing 

 timber to the value of over 250,000. A great 

 many of the plantations were fifty years old, 

 and yielded over 50 per acre when finally cut 

 down, apart from the value of the thinnings 

 taken out of them previous to the time they 

 w^ere cut down. To one proprietor in Aber- 

 deenshire he paid 80,000 for plantations 

 about fifty years of age, and the price worked 

 out on an average at fully 50 per acre. One 

 particular plantation of larch in Aberdeen- 

 shire, about seventy years old, yielded 150 

 per acre; another plantation, all larch, about 

 forty-four years of age, gave over 100 per 

 acre; and these plantations were for the most 

 part growing on what was formerly pasture 

 or waste land, and which cost for planting and 

 fencing from 2 to 2 10s. per acre. It will 

 be needless to multiply cases in which poor 

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