76 



PLANTING. 



Enclosing 

 For 8797 yards of wire fence, solid galvanised, half 



and half, of Nos. 6 and 8, ..... 



Posts of larch, 2618, ...... 



Eight iron straining-pillars and workmen's tools, . 

 Herding off deer during erection of fence planting 



being in progress, . . . . . . . 



Labour erecting fence, . . . . . . 



Horse work in connection, . . . . . 



Killing hares and rabbits, ...... 



Expense of enclosing, . . . 

 Draining, total cost, ....... 



Plants and planting 



Scots pine, 2,034,000 of two-year one . 

 year, and one-year one year, at the 

 average rate of 7s. per 1000, . . 722 4 6 

 Larch, 665,500, one-year and one year, 



at about 10s. 6d. per 1000, . . 357 12 



A bies Douglasii, 1000, 5 inches high, . 1010 



Mats, packing, &c., .... 6 10 



Carriage of plants from railway sta- 



tion to plantation, . . . 23 5 2 



Labour planting, . . . . 316 10 3 



109 14 10 

 59 

 21 16 9 



15 15 



36 9 



4 11 



44 



251 10 11 

 25 3 



Cost of plants and planting, .... 1436 11 11 

 Total cost of forming plantation, . . . 1713 5 10 



" We have now, therefore, a sum of 1713, 5s. 10d., 

 as representing the total cost of the formation of a 

 young plantation of 900 acres, situated in one of the 

 highest lying districts of Great Britain. This gives 

 us about 1, 18s. Id. per acre, or as under: 



Enclosing, 

 Draining, 

 Planting, 



057 

 006 

 1 12 



1 18 



