DECEMBER. 



.fixed to his lot, is prevented from making mistakes : 

 this entirely answers the desired intent, and mur- 

 murings are seldom heard at succeeding sales i 

 sometimes in the month of January the wood-ward 

 begins cutting the underwood, taking care to leave 

 a sufficient quantity of young thriving plants, either 

 oak or ash, for the purpose of preserving a succes- 

 sion in the stock: the wood consists of two sorts of 

 stores, which are called tellers; the oldest are 

 called black barks, and are of 42 years' growth ; 

 these are felled in the barking season, for the pur- 

 pose of procuring the bark, and are then carried off 

 with the faggots by the purchaser of the lot ; the 

 next are called white barks, and are 28 years 1 growth, 

 and remain standing for stores, with a proper quan- 

 tity of 14 years' growth, till the wood is again 

 felled. 



" Some of the woods in Herefordshire are stored in 

 the same way, and some are felled at 20 years' growth ; 

 some are cut at 15, when the wood is completely 

 felled, and the poles used as hop-poles, which in that 

 county is deemed a profitable mode ; those of 20 

 years are regularly stored, and the poles converted 

 into hoops, spokes, lath, hurdles, cord, wood for 

 charcoal, and various other purposes. 



Twining. Wm. PJielps" 



STRAW-FED CATTLE. 



"I met with an idea that cattle may be satiated 

 with straw 7 ; or, in other words, may be served with 

 it in too great plenty. It has been observed, that 



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