YIELD AND FINANCIAL RESULTS. 



Returns of one Acre of Beech Wood. 



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These data must be considered as very moderate in amount. 

 More especially the early thinnings are likely to yield more 

 than I have estimated. However, my object was to keep on 

 the safe side, and to introduce into the amount the minima of 

 returns which may be expected from average land. 



I must next deal with the expenses. They are the cost of 

 planting, looking after the plantations, rates and taxes, etc. 

 These items must be estimated on the supposition that a con- 

 siderable area is planted, say 1,000 acres. I have raised my 

 own plants during the last sixteen years, planted during the 

 same period some 2,000 acres under varying conditions, and 



