Forestry Volume 8; A Journal of Forest and Estate Management (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... and leaving unplanted of all the main roads in all extensive forest enclosures. I acquiesce in those remarks for obvious leasons; and in briefly stating these reasons, I 'will not undertake to answer Loanleah's 'query' (his knack of economy and finance appears exquisite in the habiliment of a query), but will assay to manifest the foresight and discretion of Mr. Scott's remarks. In my opinion, then, it is desirable to have all main roads in a plantation planned and marked off prior to planting, because whilst the ground is nude and implanted, the place of the roadways can be better seen and traced; and therefore, whether the ground be steep, rough.flat, undulating, or whether the roads have to wind about among small hills, traverse the sides of hills, run obliquely, run vertically, or traverse a level plain--no matter which, it is much easier to plan advantageous roads before planting than after; nor, in doing so, need the best soils be utilised. Now, allowing wood roads to be five yards wide; then, for the sake of argument, imagine a forest in which there are eight miles of such roads; that is, within a small fraction of fifteen acres. Let us call it fourteen acres, and, as 'Loanleah' seems to plant his trees about three feet apart, it will require 4,840 trees to the. acre, and 4,840 x 14 = 67,760 trees, to plant the eight miles of roads, which 1 will suppose costs the small price of nine shillings per 1,000 for plants and planting, or about 2 3s. per acre, or rather more than 30 for the eight miles of road, all of which unessential outlay 'Loanleah' ignores. Being full of the Utopian idea of again getting all of these thousands of trees when they are two or three feet high to transplant at 2 per 1,000--all other economy is obscured by t...