other causes, interpose obstacles and difficulties which it will be no slight task to overcome. To give a brief summary of my views upon this important point, I would remark, that no wood ought to be allowed to _run out its term_ which is not _stocked as it ought to be_, or which, if stocked tolerably well, _is suffering injury from imperfect drainage_. As I have just said, these points must be determined by an examination of the wood by some person whose judgment may be relied upon; but any gentleman may see at once, if he will, that if a wood is really in the state which I have supposed, viz., without either timber or underwood _worth standing_, &c. it would be perfectly absurd to _let it stand_; for at the end of the cycle it would be very little better than at the beginning, and so much more time would be irrecoverably lost. As to the second point—_the improvement of revenue to be derived from a different mode of disposing of the produce_, I am of opinion that much might be done, in many places, without laying an increased tax on the local buyers, who are generally either farmers, or their tradesmen, the wheelwrights and carpenters of every neighbourhood, and who already pay quite enough for what they get; and especially the _former_, to whom I would much sooner recommend their landlords to allow an _abatement_, as an encouragement to them to keep their fences, gates, &c. in good order, than any thing in the shape of an advance. But still, much may be done to increase the returns from woodland property, by an improved system of management, and, first, I should advise _a careful assortment of the stuff after it is felled_: I would here, as in every thing else, _classify_, by which means, the different kinds, as well as the different sizes, and shapes, will come into the hands of such persons as they may exactly suit, instead of jumbling all sorts together, so that a buyer is obliged to purchase that which he _does not want_, in order to come at another portion of the same lot which he is desirous of having. Secondly: There is room to doubt, I think, as hinted before, whether mistakes are not often made, in not adapting the produce of woods better as to its _age_, both to the local demand, and the interests of the proprietor.