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oaks, and strip, fla, the bark off them to sell to tanners. 

 They now get commonly a shilling for a yard of it, that is 

 of the bark, ' stapled,' upstaplad, or piled up in the 

 cubic yard. 



B6k och Ek-olloh til foda for Svin. 



Beech and Oak mast as food for Swine. 

 From the Beeches which here grew in abundance, 

 were collected [T. I. p. 249] annually a great number of 

 beechnuts with which the swine are fed, who flourish and 

 grow very fat on them. In the same way, acorns are 

 gathered as food for pigs ; yet they do not willingly eat 

 acorns as their food as against beech-nuts, dock 

 spisa de samma i godhet til deras foda ej up 

 emot B6k-Ollon. Some lost a great many swine last 

 year, which happened through this, that they gave them 

 acorns to eat before they had lain any time, and had, as 

 it were, been prepared for food, through which the swine 

 died. This could never happen with beech-nuts, which 

 they can eat without harm as soon as they fall down 

 from the tree. 



Genista Spinosa at branna tegel med. Furze [Ulex 

 Europaeus] to burn bricks with. 

 I have said before (p. 199 orig.) that they almost 

 everywhere in these woodless districts use Genista Spinosa 

 Vulgaris, Raj. Syn. 475, as fuel in fireplaces, i spisar. 

 Mr. Williams now told me that it is also used in this 

 district to burn bricks with, when they collect it in 

 small bundles, dry them, and during the brick-burning 

 stuff these bundles into the brick-kiln, instead of other 

 wood. I also saw afterwards at the brickyard, which 

 belonged to the Duke of Bridgewater, that this, like the 

 brackens, was collected and arranged there in heaps by 

 the bundle, lagd der i hogar knipptals, so as to 

 use it as fuel during the brick-burning. 



