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want from a larger purchaser after the sale is over, the vendor 

 thus losing by the transaction, for the merchant must sell at 

 a profit. The lots should be laid conveniently near to roads or 

 drives, and the trees should be nicely trimmed with the axe 

 and laid with their thick ends evenly to the road. Very large 

 and valuable trees may form single lots, and such trees are 

 better sold where they fall, as hauling out of the wood is 

 expensive work. Small timber is different, and must be 

 presented in lots. 



SECTION IV. — CORD-WOOD AND UNDERWOOD. 



No precise rule can be laid down for the disposal of these. 

 The cord-wood is valued by the ton or cord, either ranked or 

 as it lies, about four shillings and sixpence being allowed .for 

 ranking, the value of the cord-wood itself varying from two 

 shillings and sixpence to five shillings per ton ; cut and ranked, 

 seven shillings and sixpence to nine shillings and sixpence 

 per ton or cord. In many localities now-a-days, however, 

 the cord-wood cannot be given away, while in some cases, when 

 it included a good deal of thick wood from old park trees, we 

 have seen it fetch ten shillings per cord. 



Underwood is sold by the acre or lot, according to the 

 quantity, as much as from £10 to £20 per acre being got for 

 a good thick crop consisting principally of hazel and good 

 crate wood. 



SECTION V. — CONDITIONS OF SALE. 



Whether the lots are sold ' standing or felled, they should 

 be offered for sale early in the autumn, to enable purchasers 

 to have the timber got at the right season of the year. Printed 

 circulars containing particulars of the number of the trees and 

 poles,' the different kinds, etc., date and conditions of sale, should 

 be sent to likely purchasers, and the lots should also be adver- 

 tised in the local papers in good time. The vendor may sell 

 by private bargain, by tender, or by auction ; each plan being 

 good in its way, provided the lots have been fairly valued and 

 the vendor knows about what they are really worth. He is not 

 bound to accept the highest or any offer, and he should make 

 that clear in the conditions of sale. Purchasers should sign 

 an agreement like the following, which is usually sufficient; 

 as, , however stringent the conditions may be, everything 

 depends on them being carried out, and that depends more 



