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through such stools, and carefully select the proper 

 shoots to be reared up for trees, and cut away all the 

 rubbish from off the stool, so as they may get all the 

 nourishment possible, and a very great many of these 

 that are already far advanced will get out of the reach 

 of cattle the first year's growth: But such of them 

 as have bad tops and require to be cut over, must be 

 enclosed single for three or four years, till they be 

 out of the reach of cattle ; this is simple, easily and 

 effectually done, by four or six stobs, and these 

 warped close with the small prunings of larch firs, 

 which will prevent them, for six or eight years, from 

 either cattle or sheep ; as there is plenty of this kind 

 of rubbish on the farm, two men will do one hun- 

 dred of such stools in a day, or nearly so, so that the 

 expense is not worth mentioning, and at all stages, 

 and every year of their growth, they are adding five 

 times more than their intrinsic value as timber, to the 

 estate or farms. For the proper method of rearing 

 all such, consult my Forester's Guide on converting 

 natural stools into standing timber trees. 



No. LXVII. 



North and West Belt. 



This belt, commencing at the West Lodge, run- 

 ning westwards along the public road side, has been 

 thinned ; but I am sorry to say, by no means with 

 that care and attention that a belt of trees occupying 

 such a conspicuous place for ornament and shelter 

 as this does on the estate, ought to have been. Be- 

 fore beginning to thin a plantation of any kind, but 



