138 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
beechwoods are returning five times, and in 
many cases six times, the annual income that 
the adjoining agricultural land is yielding. No 
more profitable timber than beech, he is satisfied, 
can be grown in this district, because at the pre- 
sent time his firm is able to make from 1s. 4d. to 
1s, 6d. per cubic foot of the best trees, and from 
1od. to 1s. 3d. for smaller and rougher timber. 
It is true that this does not compare with the 
value of oak and ash, but these classes of timber 
cannot be grown as ‘a crop’ in the same way 
that beechwoods are treated and thinned at fre- 
quent intervals. 
The experience of Mr. Daniel Watney, a Past 
President of the Institution, was also much to 
the same effect. The best results from timber 
with which he was acquainted came from the 
Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. In the case 
of the West Wycombe estate, with which he 
was concerned some few years ago in the suit 
of Dashwood v. Magniac, the estate books for 
over 100 years showed the annual income from 
those woods as 30s. an acre. They are situated 
on the tops of hills, on land which is not really 
fit for agriculture, and which if it were broken 
