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others of a medium size will cost from 45s. to 50s. per ton ; and small 

 coppice shoots will cost fully 60s. per ton and upwards. 



In Yorkshire we have for the last seven years peeled oak-trees 

 averaging six feet each, for an average sum of 2, 4s. per ton of bark. 

 The chopping has cost 6s. 6d. and 7s. per ton. 



I have found that oak-trees standing thick together, and averaging 

 one foot each, will give nearly five and a half tons of timber to one ton 

 of dry bark ; while similar trees which had received more space gave 

 four and a half tons of timber to one of bark. 



I have also found trees averaging ten feet each give four tons of timber 

 to one of bark. Large hedgerow-trees have produced with us three tons 

 of timber to one of bark. 



SECTION 19. The Maintenance of a Stock of Game along with the 

 pwper Management of Woods. 



Many landed proprietors who are game-preservers allow their woods 

 and plantations to be ruined because they do not wish the game to 

 be disturbed ; and they are under the impression that it is impossible 

 to have plantations and carry on the necessary operations in them, and 

 at the same time keep the game together. I have not found this to be 

 the case on this estate (Wass) ; and on others which I know, where the 

 plantations are regularly attended to, the game is in no way interfered 

 with. The pheasants come to know the regular workmen from strangers, 

 and they may be often seen quietly feeding close to workmen in the 

 plantations. 



In order to keep the plantations as quiet as possible, we divide the 

 whole extent into different portions, and take one portion to be dealt 

 with in each year, while the others are left unmolested. 



Presuming that the woodlands of an estate extend to one thousand 

 acres, and they are of an age to render it necessary to thin them once 

 in every four years ; then, in that case, I would divide the woodlands 

 into four portions of two hundred and fifty acres each, one of which 

 would be thinned and otherwise dealt with annually, leaving seven 

 hundred and fifty acres undisturbed each year; and the two hundred 

 and fifty acres which are in hand at one time should be completed and 

 finished before another portion is taken in hand. 



