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perhaps be permissible to give the following as 

 the average annual rates of increase in growth 

 in cubic feet (reduced to the customary British 

 4 square-of-quarter-girth ' measurement) yielded 

 by ordinarily well - managed woodland crops 

 throughout the Hanoverian forests : 



Say, for example, that a Scots pine wood 

 which has long been growing actively begins 

 about seventy years of age to show signs of 



