Note 75 — JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST. (continued 6)

The ash, generally speaking, will arrive at a very serviceable age, in sixty years, producing at a low rate twenty-eight feet of timber, which, at 2s. 3d. the foot, its present value, would produce a sum equivalent to 3l. 3s., a silent unheeded profit of above a shilling a year. A hundred such might have been felled annually from many farms had they not been topped, which, in consequence of this practice have produced nothing.