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If the thinnings of a young plantation, or liberty of 

 cutting for his own use, whatever timber he might require, 

 would be considered equivalent to the rent at which the 

 timber land is charged, and that the farmer would be 

 satisfied to pay for it on these conditions this is rather 

 a matter for arrangement between the tenant and the 

 forester of the estate, than to be settled by a valuator. 



If, on the other hand, the occupying tenant have planted 

 the timber land of his farm himself, or otherwise become 

 entitled to it, he is of course chargeable with the full rent 

 to which it should be subject. 



V. BOG TURF-BOG. 



Bog land, where reclaimable and made fit to bear crops, 

 is classed as arable ; where occupied as pasture, it is to be 

 classed among grass lands. 



Turf-bog is that description of peaty soil which is cut 

 and dried into turf, and extensively used for fuel 

 throughout the country. 



There is great difference in its intrinsic value. That 

 which is dark coloured, hard and weighty when dry, is 

 best ; on the other hand, it diminishes in value as it be- 

 comes light in colour and texture. 



In places where it is scarce, three crops are sometimes 

 cut and dried on the same spot in a season ; but ordinarily 

 only one crop is cut and dried on the same ground in a 

 year. 



Prime turf-bog, when occupied only in such portion as 

 is necessary for the wants of the occupying tenant, is as 

 valuable to him as prime arable land ; but if he be obliged 

 to occupy more than he requires, the residue, not being 

 used to profit, is only worth the grass it is capable of 

 producing, which seldom ranks higher than E.G. 1 . 



Turf-bog, occupied as such, may be classified, like 

 arable land, into 



1. EXTRA BOG. 



In this class should be placed those usually small 

 patches of good bog which occur in the centre of a district 

 where fuel is very scarce and valuable. In such cases it 



