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at a certain rate per rail, post, or otherwise. The bench is strong, yet 

 it is of small bulk. It takes a saw up to three feet in diameter. At 

 each end is a roller to facilitate the moving of the trees. 



FIG. 125. 



The bench we have in use was manufactured by Messrs Clayton, 

 Shuttleworth, & Co., engineers, Lincoln, and cost 20, fitted with a 

 thirty-inch saw. The table is five feet long and two feet broad. That 

 firm also manufactures larger benches, which take in much larger 

 saws up to four feet in diameter and are therefore better for heavy 

 timber. They are supplied with a self-acting feeding motion, which 

 draws the timber up to the saw just quick enough for the saw working. 

 They go through a great deal of work in a short time, and can be 

 managed by any ordinary workman. A fence is erected to the left 

 of the saw, which can be removed parallel to the saw, and at right 

 angles to it. It can also be shifted to any angle required, thus making 

 it very useful in cutting up weather-boarding, or in any case where 

 feather-edge boarding is wanted. It is also supplied with a boring 

 apparatus. The price of this complete is 65 ; but without the self- 

 supplying motion and boring apparatus, 45. 



SECTION' 14. The Protection of Young Trees from Deer, Hares, 



and Rablits. 



Deer, hares, and rabbits are often very destructive to young trees on 

 an estate, and both landed proprietors and foresters are puzzled to know 

 what should be done in the way of preventing these animals from 

 destroying them. 



Many proprietors are not fully aware of the loss they sustain in this 

 way. I have known young plantations which have been repeatedly 



