The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.

To fell Timber.

IF the Husbandman have Wood to sell, I advise him for to retail it himself, that he may have an eye to his Market; and if not, if he have a Baily or some other discreet Servant, to do it for him; and if it be small Wood, to kidde it, and sell it by the hundreds or by the thousands; and if there be Ashes in it, to sell the small Ashes to Coopers for Garches, and the great Ashes to Wheel-wrights, and the more mean and ordinary Trees to Plough-Wrights, the Crab-trees to Millers to make Coggs and Tongs. And if there be any Oaks, either great or small, to fell them, and peel them, and sell the Bark by it self, and after∣wards to sort the Trees, the Poles by them∣selves, the middle sort by themselves, and the greatest by themselves, and then to sell them by scores and half scores, or hundreds, as he can, and to fell it hard by the Earth; for one foot next to the Earth is worth two foot on the top. Let him cut his Timber long enough, that he may leave none on the top; & let them sell the tops as they are at the great, or else dress them, and sell the great Wood by it self, and the Kid-wood by it self, and to fell the under-wood first at any time between Martle∣mas and Holy-rood Day. And all the Ashes

between Martlemas and Candlemas; and all Oaks as soon as they will peel, until May be done, and not after.