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work,) to preserve sufficient plash-pole about the verge and bounds chat. i.of the copse for fence and security of what you leave; and for this,something lefs than a rod may suffice: Then raking your wood clear 'of spray, claps, and all incumbrances, shut it up from the cattle; the (longer the better.

By the statute, men were bound to inclose copses after felling, of orunder fourteen years growth, for four years: Those above fourteen yearsgrowth, to be sixteen years inclosed ; and for woods in common, a fourth,part to shut up ; and at felling, the like proportion of great trees to beleft, and seven years inclosed; This was Enlarged by 13 Eliz. Yourelder under-woods may be grazed about July : But for a general rulenew-weaned calves are the least noxious to newly-cut spring-woods,where there is abundance of grafs ; and some say, colts of a year old;but then the calves must be driven'out in May at farthest, though thecolts be permitted to stay a while longer; but of this, every man’s ex-perience will direct him ; and surely, the later you admit.beasts to graze,the better. For the measure of fuel, these proportions w r ere to be observed.

Statutable billet should hold three feet in length, and seven inches andV half in compafs ; ten or fourteen as they are counted for one, tzco, orthree, Szc. A stack of wood (which is the boughs and offal of the treesto be converted to charcoal, is four yards long, three feet and a half high,

(in some places but a yard,) and as much over: In other places, the cordis four feet in height, and four feet over; or, to speak more geometrically, .a solid made up of three dimensions, four feet high, four feet broad, and

eight feet long; the content one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet.-

Faggots ought to be a full yard in length, and two feet in circumference,made round and not flat; for so they contain lefs fuel, though appearing.,equal in the bulk.

In the mean-time it were to be wished that some approved experiments :were sedulously tried, with the advice of skilful and ingenious physicians,for the making of beer without hops; as pofsibly with the WhiteMarrubium, a plant of singular virtue, or with dried Heath-tops, viz. thatsort which bears no berries, or the like, far more wholesome, and lefsbitter than either Tamarisk, Carduus, or Broom, which divers haveefsayed; it might prove a means to save a world of fuel, and in divers

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