such description of timber, then I should say wind-rows are the best;
but when the timber is deciduous, heaps are better.

The brush should be carefully piled and laid all one way, by which
means it packs closer and burns better. The regular price for
underbrushing hard-wood land, and cutting up-all the old fallen timber-
-which is always considered a part of the underbrushing--is one dollar
per acre, and board. Rough land and swamp vary from seven shillings and
sixpence to ten shillings. Your under-brush should be all cut and piled
by the end of November, before the snow falls to the depth of four
inches, for after that it would be both difficult and tedious.

The chopping now begins, and may be followed without any interruption
until the season for sugar-making commences. The heads of the trees
should be thrown upon the heaps or wind-rows. A skilful chopper will
scarcely ever miss a heap when felling the timber, besides it saves a
great deal of labour in piling the limbs.

The trunks of the trees must be cut into lengths, from fourteen to
sixteen feet, according to the size of the timber. Now and then a large
maple or beech, when felled, may be left without cutting up, with the
exception of the top, which is called a plan-heap, and is left to log
against: this is only done when the tree is too large to be cut through
easily with the axe.

All timber fit for making rails should be left in double and treble
lengths, as it is less likely to burn.

A good axe-man should be able, with fair chopping, to cut an acre in
eight days after the under-brushing is done. The regular price of