IMPORTANT LOCAL PLANTING. 81 



Expenses in the Formation of Plantation No. 4. 



Fencing 



1112 yards of four-barred paling, at 9fd. per yard, . 45 3 6 

 5685 yards turf dyke, with paling on top, at 5|d. per yd.. 136 8 2 



Drainage 



18,128 yards drains, at l|d. per yard, . . . 113 6 1 



Plants- 

 Scots pine, 1,446,150, at 4s. 6d. per 1000, . . . 325 7 8 

 Larch, 223,420, at 6s. per 1000, . . . 67 6 



Spruce 54,220, at 12s. per 1000, . . . 32 10 6 



1,723,790 

 Planting 



Workmen's wages planting the whole, . . . 254 3 4 

 Cartage of plants, . . .. . . . 1516 



990 5 3 



Cost of Management and General Maintenance from the year of 

 planting 1859 to 1867 (eight 



Scouring and cleaning drains, . . . . . 8 15 2 

 General repairs of fence, looking over enclosure, and 



clearing snow from turf fence, &c., . . . 76 4 10 



85 



" The cost of the plants may seem very low, but 

 they did not cost the proprietor any more, as they 

 were reared in the home nursery on the estate. 



" By the foregoing table of expenditure is brought 

 out the cost of the different works at the following 

 rates per acre : 



Fencing, .... 6s. 7d. per acre. 



Draining, . _. 4s. l|d. u 



Cost of plants, . . .15s. 7d. u 



Planting, .... 9s. 2d. ,. 



Maintenance, . . .Os. 4^d. .. per annum. 



" The plantation was in a very healthy and satis- 

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