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A statement showing the clear value of 

 five hundred acres of oak trees after the first 

 thinning, if left to grow to the average of 

 forty-five feet per tree, or worth eight pounds 

 each, which w411 be at the end of seventy-five 

 years. 



The produce of second thinning,' 

 at the end of 50 years, to make the 

 crop stand from 5ft. to 10ft. apart, 

 cut 1300 trees per acre, at 5 shil- 

 lings each, bark and top included, 

 leaving 400 trees per acre, 



To produce of the crop standing" 

 10 feet apart at the end of 75 years, 

 400 trees per acre, of 45ft. in each, 

 at 3 shillings and 6 pence per foot, 

 and 2 shillings and 6 pence each 

 for top and bark, or £.8 each. 



y 162,500 



600,000 



£.1,762,500 



The annual interest thereon, at four per 

 cent, is seventy thousand five hundred pounds. 



The opinion arising from a careful exami- 

 nation of all the evidence during this inquiry, 



