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II. ARTICLES FOR EXHIBITION ONLY. 

 Class I. 

 Specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees. 



Bronze Medal. John Leitch, Forester, Tullichewan, 

 Alexandria, for five Specimens of Coniferae planted 

 in 1914. 



Class III. 

 Different Scantlings of Timber, Deals, and Battens, etc. ; and 



Class IV. 

 Pit-wood and Railway Timber. 



No. 3 Silver Medal. Major Murray of Polmaise. 



Class XV. 

 Anything of interest relating to Forestry. 



Gold Medal. Messrs James Jones & Sons, Ltd., Larbert, 

 for a Collection of Timber and a House made entirely 

 of home-grown timber. 



No. I Silver Medal. The Duke of Atholl, K.T., for 

 Collection of Exhibits, including Root-cut and Board 

 of " Parent " Larch, Boards of Weymouth Pine and 

 Scots Pine, and Samples of Common, Hybrid, and 

 Japanese Larch, twelve years of age, etc. 



No. 2 Silver Medal. Brig.-Gen. Stirling of Keir, for a 

 general Collection of Exhibits, including Sleepers 

 and large Boards of the timber of Abies grandis. 



No. 3 Silver Medal. John Scrimgeour, Factor, Doune 

 Lodge, Doune, for Larch Fencing-Posts. Six of these 

 posts were 50-year-old thinnings, grown at 600-700 feet 

 elevation. They were axe-pointed, and had been in 

 use for forty-two years when the fence was removed in 

 1912, and were then serviceable. The other six were 

 sawn from Larch grown at 300 feet elevation, had 

 been in use fourteen years and were badly decayed. 

 The Judges' awards were approved. 



Mr R. Allan, Whitburn, in moving votes of thanks to the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society for the accommodation 

 provided for the Exhibition in the Showyard, and for their 

 increased grant, and also to the Judges (Messrs J. Broom, 



