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the standards which are left, and the crop, according to age 

 and quality, will realize from 5 per acre downwards. 



Great care is necessary to avoid damage to the stools 

 when removing the fall, which is not usually done until just 

 before the young buds are shooting out, and consequently 

 at the time when injury is most easily brought about. The 

 trampling of horses and passage of wheels are most injurious, 

 while the browsing of cattle should be carefully guarded 

 against. Good roads are always a great advantage in a 

 coppice plantation, and to these as much of the produce as 

 possible should be carried for loading, thus avoiding damage 

 to the stools. 



Although the growth of coppice wood has its disadvan- 

 tages, particularly in park scenery, yet it is valuable in this 

 way, that should the crop from local circumstances not 

 be found remunerative, the plantation can at any time be 

 converted into a standing wood by allowing the best and 

 strongest shoots from the stools to form the permanent crop. 



The approximate cost of forming a coppice wood per acre 

 is as follows : 



s. d. 



Trenching at 2s. per rod . . . . 16 

 5,000 trees at 35s. per 1,000 . . . 8 15 



Pitting and planting . . . . .250 



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