taining a perfect knowledge of his increasing an- 

 nual income, to have his woods, plantations, wood 

 lands, and timber trees surveyed, valued, and put 

 on a proper system of improvement by a profes- 

 sional person, who, if worthy of trust, will take 

 special care, candidly, honestly, and without par- 

 tiality, to state the improvements that should and 

 that could be made with propriety, advantage, and 

 profit, with the best, speediest, safest, and cheapest 

 method of executing them. 



A most excellent and satisfactory plan for all 

 concerned, when a system of improvement is 

 adopted, and agreed on by the proprietor, and put 

 into the hands of the factor, forester, or operative 

 manager, particularly when printed, is to bind in 

 a quantity of blank paper at the end of the report 

 on every distinct plantation or farm, in the form of 

 a book, in which the proprietor notes down his in- 

 structions to the factor, forester, or operative ma- 

 nager, so that he goes on in safety, and if attentive 

 and industrious, with satisfaction to his employer. 

 Also the manager or forester noting down, on his 

 part, the expense or time consumed in making all 

 such improvements when finished, &c. ; also the 

 sums of money received for the thinnings and cut- 

 tings, and to w^hat purpose applied, &c. The pro- 

 prietor and servants keeping each a distinct book, 

 and comparing them occasionally. When this plan 

 is judiciously attended to, it affords peace of mind 

 to the proprietor, particularly so when he (the pro- 

 prietor) cannot always reside on the estate, where- 

 by, at whatsoever distance, he can have a perfect 

 knowledge of what is going on at all times and oc- 



