214 MANNER IN WHICH TREES OUGHT 



pay the proprietor better than when the wood is 

 sold in its rough state and without measurement. 



In preparing wood for a public sale, each sort 

 should be arranged into separate lots by itself, and 

 no individual lot should contain less timber than 

 twenty -five cubic feet, in order that there may be 

 a cart-load for the purchaser. 



All timber of good quality should be lotted sepa- 

 rately from that of indifferent quality. Let good 

 timber be sold in lots by itself, and bad timber in 

 the same manner ; and if possible, whatever num- 

 ber of trees may be put into a lot, let them be 

 nearly of an equal size. 



All oak timber should be sold in its growing 

 state, unless the proprietor wish to have the cutting 

 and peehng of it kept in his own hand, which is ad- 

 visable, seeing this sort of work is more likely to 

 be done to the general advantage of the stock than 

 when done by strangers. At all events, in all cases of 

 taking down oak trees, the cutting, at least, ought 

 to be done by the proprietor's men, not only with 

 a view to the safety of the stools, but also for 

 the sake of other trees that may not be intended 

 to come down. In the case of thinning out among 

 lai'ge full-grown oak trees, I have seen much 

 damage done to the standards from carelessness 

 in allowing the fallen trees to smash the branches of 

 those which were to remain ; and in that instance 

 the purchaser cut down the trees himself, and, 



