18 GROWING GOLD. 



lation of this kind shows the importance of the 

 subject much more clearly than the most elabo- 

 rate argument. There are few estates which 

 consist entirely of growing timber, therefore 

 it is absolutely indispensable to have a person 

 thoroughly competent to make the distinctions. 

 The number of feet of timber and the number 

 of trees likely to become timber, would be 

 extremely small on many estates, and this 

 circumstance is generally occasioned by mis- 

 management. Owners would be surprised 

 to find, if they employed an efficient wood 

 agent to examine their property, the words 

 ''stunted and dying" in his report, against 

 trees just measurable, i. e. six feet long and 

 six inches square, in some woods considerably 

 more than three-fourths of the whole number. 

 Every proprietor of an estate should have a 

 timber book, which would give him a correct 

 idea of his resources, and would show, at one 

 glance, the '' gold growing" for his posterity. 



But this business requires to be placed in 

 proper hands, for many estates most deplorably 



