The Locust, 



At the end of the third Six Years. 



Cr. £' s. d. 



5440 Poles, at 1^ 272 0 0 



Dr. £. s. d. 



Six years' rent ...6 0 0 



Taxes and rates 4 0 0 



Interest on advances 2 10 0 



12 10 0 



Profit .£260 10 0 



First six years 93 10 0 



Second 260 10 0 



£614 10 0 



366. This is the result at the end of eighteen years. 

 Then the tenant may gnib up, or sell the stems and the 

 three years' growth to the landlord. This is all plain, and 

 all true ; but, it would, doubtless, be prevented by the 

 increase of Locust plantations. However, this conclusion 

 is undeniable. A product like this may be relied upon, as 

 safely as may a crop of wheat of four quarters to the acre, 

 in w^heat land which is in good order for the wheat. 



367. If the plantation were for timher trees, the distances 

 ought still to be the same, and the whole of the trees might 

 stand till each was seven or eight inches through at six feet 

 from the ground. Then a part might be cut down. Pro- 

 bably it would be a good way to leave the trees then, at 

 eight feet apart, this would give two thousand and forty 

 trees to cut down ; and would leave six hundred and eighty 

 trees to grow on. The two thousand and forty trees cut 

 down, are each of them fit to make a common gate post ; 

 01', perhaps, to make from four to six window sills ; or a 

 couple or more of door sills, or a couple of park-pale 

 posts. These trees could not be worth less than five shil- 



