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foot, and as measured down to 3 inches diameter, produced 817 cubic feet and realised
£24 10 0
Deduct expenses of cutting and hauling out.
£2 16 0
Deduct„ expenses of„ loading and delivering to station at 6s, per ton
2 8 0
5 4 0
Leaving a net return of
£19 6 5
Four men were occupied for 42 days in working the timber up on the ground and produced :
196½ dozen pair 1st size, men’s, at a cost of 1s. 4d. per dozen
£13 2 0
209dozen„ pair„ 2nd size,„ women’s, cost„ 1s. 2d. per dozen„
12 3 10
98½ dozen„ pair„ 3rd size,„ boys’cost„ 10d. per dozen„
4 2 1
119½ dozen„ pair„ 4th size,„ children’s, cost„ 8d.
3 19 8
Total for labour
£33 7 7
The maker informed me that the cost of carriage to Oldham was £8, 2s. at the rate of £1 per ton, and that the sum realised was £72, in addition to which he had the whole of the waste and chips to sell for firewood.
ALNUS INCANA, Grey Alder
- Alnus incana, Moench, Meth. 424 (1794); Willdenow, Sp. Pl. iv. 335 (1805); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii, 1687 (1838); Willkomm, Forstliche Flora, 349 (1887); Mathieu, Flore Forestière, 426 (1897); Winkler, Betulacee, 120 (1904).
- Alnus lanuginosa, Gilibert, Exercit. Phyt. ii. 402 (1792).
- Alnus glauca, Michaux, f., Hist. Arb. Amer. iii. 322 (1813).
- Betula Alnus incana, Linnæus, Sp. Pl. 983 (1753).
- Betula incana, Linnæus, f., Suppl. 417 (1781).
A tree, attaining about 70 feet in height and 6 feet in girth. Bark smooth and silvery grey, only fissuring slightly at the base of old trunks. Young branchlets greyish pubescent. Leaves (Plate 268, Fig. 1) about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide, ovate or oval, rounded or cuneate at the base, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex; lateral nerves nine to twelve pairs, running straight to the margin, each ending in a short acute lobe, which is finely serrate and ciliate; upper surface dull, dark green, pubescent; lower surface greyish, covered with soft hairs, densest on the midrib and nerves, without axil-tufts ; petiole, ¾ inch long, pubescent.
Catkins in number and position like those of A. glutinosa; but male catkins looser, with distant shining red-brown scales and yellow anthers. Cones smaller than in A. glutinosa, with more numerous scales, thinner and less distinctly five- lobed. Nutlets depressed, pentagonal, reddish-brown, with wing almost as broad as the body.
In winter the twigs are three-angled at the tip, and densely covered with a fine