The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volum 1

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W. Blackwood and Sons, 1925

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Side 82 - States, it would still be less than the value of the forest crop by a sum sufficient to purchase at cost of construction all the canals, buy up at par all the stock of the telegraph companies, pay their bonded debts and construct and equip all the telephone lines in the United States.
Side 27 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Side 95 - State assistance is a chronic drawback to planting for profit. Early in the last century this was just as much the case as it now is. Even then, although all the timber, bark and small material from the copse-woods was easily sold at good prices, want of funds prevented extensive planting of waste lands. ' Such lands, it must be owned, are sufficiently abundant, but the great expense and slow returns of planting are inconvenient to the majority of land proprietors The expense of planting is immediate...
Side 59 - And be it enacted, that in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages, the same shall be taken to be the rent at which one year with another such lands and heritages might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year...
Side 19 - Highness, and the other moiety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoine, wager of law, or protection shall be allowed.
Side 28 - An Act for inclosing, by the mutual Consent of the Lords and Tenants, Part of any Common, for the Purpose of planting and preserving Trees fit for Timber or Underwood, and for more effectually preventing the unlawful Destruction of Trees...
Side 37 - Navy. As no timber is required by the Admiralty from these properties, the restriction as to their being devoted to the growth of timber, and also any similar enactments affecting the New Forest and the Forest of Dean, should be repealed.
Side 82 - ... of 500,000,000 acres of forest in fair condition. This value exceeds ten times the value of our gold and silver output, and three times the annual product of all our mineral and coal mines put together. It is three times the value of our wheat crop ; and, with all the toil and risk which our agricultural crops involve, they can barely quadruple the value of this product yielded by nature for the mere harvesting. If to the value of our total mining...
Side 29 - Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State and condition of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown, and to sell or alienate Fee Farm and other Unimproveable Rents.
Side 39 - Scotland, to inquire into and report on the present position and future prospects of forestry, and the planting and management of woodlands in Great Britain ; and to consider whether any measures might with advantage be taken, by the provision of further educational facilities or otherwise, for their promotion and encouragement.

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