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always in view the variations of soil. For instance, 

 it should be tried, what weight twenty single stems 

 of sallow, ash, oak, hazel, hornbeam, &c. come to 

 at six, twelve, and twenty-four years growth, t< 

 see whether the produce is proportioned to tin 

 age. This would be a very easy experiment in 

 every respecl, but that of the time it would de- 

 mand. 



In the beech woods of Buckinghamshire, this 

 system is carried exceedingly far ; for they are not 

 cut till thirty or forty years growth ; the conse- 

 quence of which is, they are destroyed as underwood, 

 and nothing appears but single stems, which arc 

 successions of young trees. The way of cutting 

 them is 'not by falls, as in-common woods, but by 

 singling out, every year, the largest of the trees, 

 and cutting enough of them to pay r.>, 15, or 2Os. 

 per acre, per annum, according to the goodness of 

 the wood. These trees, though 

 when cut would more than measur . nbcr, are 



.;wn into lengths of four feet, or thcr 

 and rived into billets for fir. . for the London 



marl: vd there by the Thames. 



I beech woods, upon this system, will p:iy '2Os. 

 an acre, clear of < !i is mure than 



od would pay upon t! ! . I be- 



lieve it will iy be found, that the older the 



>. th the greater will be the profit. At twelve 

 years growtl. , the land must be very good to 



;> of hop-poles; but at twenty years 



wth, 



