. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book II. VALUING PLANTATIONS. 66S girth, by nine feet in length, will be found to contain one solid foot of wood, and wil
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book II. VALUING PLANTATIONS. 66S girth, by nine feet in length, will be found to contain one solid foot of wood, and will produce thirteen pounds and a half of ; {Forester's Gnidc, 170.) 4073. When growing trees are valued, an allowance is made from their cubic contents for the bark. The rule given by Monteith is, " When the girth or circumference is any thing from twelve inches up to twenty-four inches, then deduct two inches ; from twenty-four, to thirty-six, three inches ; from thirty-six to forty-eight, four inches ; from forty-eight to seventy-two, five inches; and above seventy-two, six inches. These deductions," he says, " will be found to answer in almost all trees; unless in such as are very old, and have rough and corky barks, or barks covered with moss, when an extra allowance is to be ; {Forester's Guide, 180.) 4074. J)i valuing measurable oak-trees, many persons proceed on the data that every cubic foot of timl)er will produce a stone (sixteen pounds) of bark. " This," Monteith says, " is not always correct;" and he states the following facts from his own expe- rience, with a view to assist beginners in ascertaining the quantity of bark fi-om different trees. " An oak-tree, about forty years old, measured down to four inches and a half as the side of the square, and weighing only the bark peeled off the timber that is measured, without including the bark of the spray, &c., every foot of measured timber will produce fro
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