WOODS AND PLANTATIONS. 371 



Expenses in the Formation of Talquhonie Plantation. 

 Fencing 



1112 yards of four-barred paling, at 9|d. per yard, .45 3 (i 

 5085 yards of turf dyke with paling on top, at 5|d. 



per yard, 136 8 2 



-J181 11 8 



Drainage 18,129 yards, at l|d. per yard, 113 6 ) 



Plants- 

 Scots pine, 1,446,150, at 4s. 6d. per 1000, . . .325 7 8 

 Larch, 223,420, at 6s. per 1000, . . . 67 6 



Spruce, 54,220, at 12s. per 1000, . . . 32 10 6 



424 18 8 

 Planting 



Workmen's wages planting the whole, . . . .254 3 4 

 Cartage of plants from home-nursery to plantation, 1516 



269 4 10 



Total cost of plantation at first formation, . ,989 I 3 



Cost of management and general maintenance from the year of planting 1857 to 

 1867 (ten years) 



Scouring and cleaning drains. s 15 2 



General repairs of fence, looking over enclosure, clearing 

 snow from turf wall, 76 4 10 



85 



The cost of the plants per thousand may seem very low, but they did 

 not cost the proprietor any more, as they were raised in the home-nur- 

 sery on the estate. 



By the foregoing table of expenditure it is brought out that the dif- 

 ferent works are at the following rates per acre : 



Fencing, , . .067 



Draining, . . . . _ . . 040 

 Plants and planting, . . ' . . 1 5 2i 

 Maintenance, 3j per annum. 



The State of the Plantation at this Date, with relative Progress of 

 each Kind of Tree. The plantation at the present date (October 1867) 

 is in a very healthy and satisfactory condition, excepting on the very 

 high, dry, and exposed parts, where the trees have not made much pro- 

 gress. On the lower and middle ground, the larch are now, on the 

 average, five feet high, several having grown as high as nine feet. 

 The Scots pine will average two feet high. The larch, Scots pine, and 

 spruce have made the most progress on a ligty sandy Soil with a gravelly 

 bottom. 



