NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Experimental Plots at Cockle Park. 



In view of the recommendation made in paragraph 15 of the 

 Report of the Departmental Committee on Forestry, 1903, re- 

 garding the estabhshment of 3-acre experimental plots, it may be 

 of interest to note what has already been done in this direction 



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at the County of Northumberland Demonstration Farm, Cockle 

 Park. The Guide to Experiments in Progress, 1904 (pp. 32, 33), 

 gives the following information on this point : — 



'■'■Forestry. — In the southern portion of Broomy Hill ten plots 

 of ground have been laid off and planted with forest trees for the 

 purpose of illustrating certain principles of sylviculture. Plots 

 2 to 8 are each about half an acre, and the three remaining plots 



