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Expense of enclosing, plants, planting, and wages to 



workmen at Is. 8d. per day, L.IO per acre, — or L.IOOO 



Rent fey 20 years, at most - - - - lOOO 



Interest on the outlay for 20 years - - J 000 



Interest on the rent for 20 years - - 200 



To superintending the rearing for 20 years - 1000 



The total outlay for ^0 years, would, therefore, 

 amount at the utmost to only L.4200 ; while the 

 thinnings at 10 and 15 years, would, after reducing 

 the trees to 1000 on each acre, bring at least L.500 

 — and the trees left, only valuing them at 2s. each, 

 wood and bark, at the end of the experiment, 

 L. 10,000 more. The total profits on the 100 acres, 

 in 20 years, would thus amount to L.6,300. 

 " Supposing the whole," proceeds Mr. Monteath, 

 " to be cut over at the end of 20 years, being oak, 

 it grows up without any expense of planting, and 

 will pay regularly every 20 years after, a much 

 larger sum ; but, supposing it to be reared up to 

 the age of 50 or 100 years, to maturity for navy 

 timber, &c. it will pay much better, and the crop 

 will be equally secure. It is a well authenticated 

 fact, that woods, judiciously planted and reared, 

 will pay an annual rental of from L.6 to L.IO per 

 acre. Having been in most of the sea-port towns 

 in Ireland lately, I learned from good authority 

 that tlie annual importation of foreign oak bark 

 into that country, amounts to 10,000 tons; as 

 much into Scotland, and, I should suppose, twice 

 that quantity into England. Now, supposing that 

 no more than was necessary for home consumption 

 were reared yearly in these kingdoms, it would 



