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Tree Planting and Tree Felling 



is to sort the timber into various sizes. The smaller 

 branches are cut up for firewood or, especially in the 

 case of pines and firs, to be used as wood pulp in the 

 manufacture of paper. The larger branches make props 

 or hedge rails, the bark is peeled from the trunk, and 

 the trunk itself is carted away to the sawmill. 



Fig. 30. Saw-mills, Breconshire. 



Now that you have taken away the pines you had 

 better put in little beech trees in the place of the pines. 

 They are good shade bearers and will not mind being 

 overshadowed by the oaks. It may be found necessary 

 about this time to thin out some of the oaks if they 

 seem to be too close or if any of them are weakly or 

 diseased. 



Some trees, especially the oak, ash, hazel and willow, 

 have the power, if they are cut down fairly young, of 



