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up ; rods, hoops, pea-sticks, and four-feet stakes, 

 are bundled in fifties ; withes in hundreds ; mop or 

 broom stakes in sixties ; five feet stakes, &c., in 

 quarter hundreds ; all which bundles are commonly 

 sold at the same price, varying- from eight pence to 

 onft shilling* each. The woodman is paid three half- 

 pence the bundle of common stuff; and two shillings 

 the hundred of poles ; and one shilling- and two pence 

 for fagots. 



Well planted, and judiciously -managed underwood, 

 is a profitable disposition of land unfit for other pur- 

 poses; and as it yields, or may yield, an annual 

 income, is always an object of interest with the 

 general planter. 



Grubbing. Taking up the roots of felled trees is 

 one of the tacts of rural economy. Rude and homely 

 as the task appears, it requires no small degree of 

 mechanical power, and judgment in the execution. 

 A good grubber is a person of some eminence in rural 

 society; many spending their whole lives in such 

 labour without acquiring a competent knowledge of 

 the business. An old expert grubber with com- 

 parative ease to himself will earn his three shillings 

 a-day ; while the athletic, young, but inexperienced 

 hand, will be sadly distressed in earning half the 

 money ! 



A spade, mattock, pickaxe, beetle, dog-iron, a 

 strong lever and rope, and a set of twelve iron 

 wedges weighing from one to five pound each, with a 

 large wooden one, are the grubber's tools. He first 



