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at a size proper for prop-wood, when they are rather 

 too large for this purpose, and not large enough for 

 cutting into deals, then they are only of the same 

 value as prop-wood, and indeed scarcely as much, as 

 they are only at this state of their growth fit for that 

 purpose and nothing else, they are more clumsy and 

 cost more in carriage and freight, which rather di- 

 minishes their value. To dispose of the wood on 

 this plantation just now, it will bring more money, 

 and meet with a more ready market, than if allowed 

 to stand for ten years longer. The most advanta- 

 geous method with this plantation, both for the pre- 

 sent and future good profit and advantage of the 

 proprietor and the estate, is to sell the present crop 

 and plant it up with oak, converting it into a natural 

 oak coppice wood, for which purpose it is admirably 

 adapted both as to soil and situation, as every inch 

 of the ground will carry oak coppice ; it will pay at 

 the rate of L.7, 10s. per acre for all time coming, and 

 as it is nearljr all well enclosed, there is only the ex- 

 pense of planting required. The best and most ad- 

 vantageous method of disposing of the present crop 

 would be to divide it into lots or haggs of yearly cut- 

 tings, say into five or six lots or haggs ; advertise and 

 sell it by roup, binding the purchaser to cut and clear 

 a lot annually, beginning at the west end, and an- 

 nually cutting a lot ; and when cut, plant up with 

 oak, marking off these lots in straight lines across the 

 narrow way, and then planting up the cut lot, which 

 should be attended to yearly after the cuttings. 

 There can be a temporary fence run across betwixt 

 the cut and uncut planting, to protect the young 

 planting till the next lot is cut, and so on throughout 

 the whole. Observe, that in planting up the haggs, 



