60 SOME TYPES OF BRITISH WOODLANDS. 



as sketched above has heen introduced, the following estimate 

 of receipts and expenses per acre, on land suitable for this 

 method of treatment, will not be far out, calculating with 

 prices as they now exist in the Midland counties, and taking 

 the cuttings as indicated above : 



RECEIPTS. 



25 oaks yielding, say, 500 cubic feet s. d. 



of timber, at Is. 6d. each . . 37 10 

 2."> ash, larch, and other trees, say, 



500 cubic feet of timber, at 



Is. 3<7 31 5 



Underwood, prepared for sale, say . 10 



Total per acre . . 78 15 



Total for 10 acres . . . 787 10 



EXPENSES. 



These can only be indicated in a very approximate manner, 

 somewhat as follows : 



Felling and preparing timber and s. <L 



underwood for sale, &c. . . 170 



Price of 4,000 plants, with planting, 



at 50s. per 1,000 . . . 10 



Going over the four older coupes, 



say, 10s. an acre, 40 acres . 20 



Taxes, tithes, rates, say 3s. an acre, 



on 200 acres .... 30 



Fencing with wire netting and one 



or two top wires, average annual 



expenditure, say . . . 40 



Part salary of forester, say 4s. an 



acre 40 



Total annual expenses . 310 



Annual net receipts . . . 477 10 



Or per acre = 279 



