Clearing s wamps. Timber ’cul/ed ’. Remo ving stumps. Sand blowing onto the farms. Lot 24. Spruce along the shore front. Red map/e suckers. Clearing red map/e. roots in swamps. There is often as much underground as there was above. [p. 308] Patrick D. Cox, Lot 35 : The timber on my land is of very little value, for it is all culled by the ship—builders. There is scarcely any ship timber there now. [p. 316] Matthias McDonald (of Mill Cove), Lot 35 : I know the Donaldston estate pretty well. There is a great deal of soft land, and swamps which will bog the cattle. [p. 326] Donald Ferguson, Lot 35 : I live on Lot 34. I know the Lot lie. 35] generally. The other land has to be cut down and remain for seven or eight years before it can be stumped. The time would depend upon whether it was covered with hard or soft wood. My next neighbour had this summer a field of three and a half acres of stumps, that had been cut down about eight years. It had been a somewhat heavy growth of beech and black birch. He got it stumped for $9 an acre, that was for turning out the old stumps. There was a little growth of fir, but very little. The stumps were large but pretty easily taken out. After the stumps were taken out, my neighbour had to pile and burn them and I calculated without regard to any investigation as this, that it would cost him as much labor to pile and burn them as had been expended by those he hired upon the stumping. $18 an acre in all. l have no knowledge of the cost of cutting trees. We are glad where | live, to have them to cut for fuel. [pp. 327-281 John Angus McDonald, Lot 35 : I reside at Grand Tracadie. The sand blows in on my farm. l have to keep up a large bush to keep it off. The sand hills are on the north side of the harbour, but the north- west wind blows the sand along the front of the farms. We have to keep bushes to keep the sand from blowing upon us. Where that is not done the sand will work in considerably. [p.409] Cundall estate [1,886 acres on Lot 24]. William S. McNei/l, Lot 24 : The front of Lot 24 is miserable land. It was covered with a growth of scrubby spruce, and has been burned over and comes up with laurel. Three-quarters of a mile from the shore, it is very poor land indeed. It is something better where I reside. I call it the second quality of the land of the Township. The land of Lot 24 is very hard to clear. I do not know whether the Court understands what the second growth of white maple is like. The stumps in many places do not rot, but grow up with suckers. To root them out you have to take about the size of a cart wheel of earth. The roots are so strong that one the size of my little finger would bring up a team of horses. It is three or four years after the first ploughing before the land will work satisfactorily. l have had about 30 acres of that kind of clearing made, and I could scarcely get a man to take a whole acre of it. The stumping costs £5 to £6 an acre. If a person calculated the time, he would have very small wages for clearing one of these farms. It is not so with the front of Lot 23. l have lived there and cleared land. It does not grow up with maples. Cross-examined: l have tried clearing in every month of the summer and winter, and others besides myself have tried it all times, but we have never succeeded in killing the white maples. If we have the land fenced for sheep, they will keep the maples down. White maple will grow the height of a man in one year, even if it is cut in full foliage. Lot 24 is not as good as Lot 23 on the front part. It is about second-class land a mile from the front. The inferior front part extends about three—quarters of a mile from the shore. [pp. 377-78] Henry Lawson, Lot 24 : I spent my boyhood at Wheatley River. I lived on the farm marked on this plan Thomas Chandler. The front of the farm was pine land, which was not so good as 191