624 Cultivation of Graff Land. Management of Woods Utility. 



whole, it feems therefore probable, that the moft profitable method may in gene 

 ral be to defer cutting till the later periods. 



In the extenfive woodsof Buckinghamshire, where the produce ischiefly beech, it 

 is the practice not to cut till from twenty- five to thirty, or even thirty-five years, 

 by which means they confift almoft wholly of fucceflions of young trees. In the 

 cutting, the trees of a proper age are annually fingled out and cut, without having 

 recourfe to regular falls, as in other cafes. The extent of the cuttings is made fo 

 as to pay the proprietors from about fifteen to twenty millings the acre, in propor 

 tion to thegoodnefs of the growth. The beft afford a clear profit of twenty (hil 

 lings under this management.* In Worccftci (hire, where the woods are chief 

 ly cut for the fake of the bark, they are felled at about forty years growth, a pro 

 per quantity of (tore woods of fourteen and twenty-eight years growth being left 

 for the next fall. And in the neighbouring diftrict of Hereford it is fometimes 



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the cafe to fell at from eighteen to twenty years growth, and in others at from 

 twelve to fourteen or fifteen. In the former it is chiefly oak ; but in the latter 

 cafe am, fallies, and alder. The whole is cut, and fuch parts as are proper applied 

 as hop-poles,with much profit. The twenty years falls are ftored and applied in 

 theufual manner. In cutting wood one madtn ftandard is left to each lugg or for 

 ty-nine fquare yards. Coppice-wood will produce at from 25. 6d. to 45. 6d. a 

 luggi from twelve to twenty-two pounds the acre, at from twelve to fourteen years 

 growth, which is a greater return than could be obtained in almoft any other way 

 in fuch foils and (ituations.j- 



TheDillorn woods in Stafford (hi re &quot;form a chain of three or four miles in length, 

 and confift of tall,ftraight, oaks and a(h, which are in general fo well filled up with 

 underwood as to be cut in gradual falls at feven years growth, and produce when 

 well fenced fix pounds per acre, for rods and ftaves, ufed for crates in the neigh 

 bouring pottery. Eighty-four acres of wood will admit of twelve acres being cut 

 annually, and will produce feventy-two pounds; which is about feventeen millings 

 per acre per annum for the underwood, exclufive of the timber ; while the bleak 

 neighbouring hills which remain implanted are not fuppofed worth more than 

 three millings per acre.&quot; 



It has been fuggefted by Mr. Davis, that &quot;the periods of cutting underwood 

 mould be regulated by the luxuriance of its growth, the demand of the country, 



* Buckinghamfhire 4-to Report, + Ilcrefordflure -tto Report. I SomeiTetfliire Coi-refted Report, 



