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10. Continental notes - France. By A. G. Hobart-Hampden, 

 late Indian Forest service. 



u. The Forest Nursery Station, Indian Head, Saskatchewan. 

 By Mr Kay, Assistant Nurseryman. 



12. Visit to the Forests of Bavaria, 1909. By Sir Andrew 

 N. Agnew Bart. 



13. The Thirty-second Annual Excursion, Aug. 1909 (with 

 Plates). 



14. The Forestry Exhibition held in the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society's Showyard at Stirling. 



W. B. HAVELOCK and LESLIE S. WOOD. Plantations Competi- 

 tion 1909. - - Journ. of the R. Agric. Soc. of England, Vol. TO, 

 1909, pp. 258-268. 



The following are extracts from the reports of the judges: 



'The competition in woodland plantations was instituted by the 

 R. Agr. Soc. of England in conjunction with the Royal English 

 Arbor. Soc. in order to encourage and assist landowners and for- 

 esters in the better management of plantations. 



"It was considered that as the character of the soil and the 

 elevations varied very considerably in the four competing counties, 

 the classes should be so divided that landowners owning poor and 

 elevated land should not be expected to compete against other 

 owners whose land was of a better character and at lower altitude. 



"By visiting estates we did not find in any instance that the 

 woodlands generally were being managed upon any defined well- 

 thought-out scheme; although in many cases we found that the 

 woodland areas throughout the estates were being carefully man- 

 aged, and these areas were being extended gradually year by year. 



"In some cases the woodlands were in the charge of a head 

 forester, but in others they were being managed by the agent, with 

 the general supervision of an estate bailiff, and on more than one estate 

 the landowner himself was personally superintending the woodlands. 



"We made inquiries in every case as to the original state of 

 the land, and in the twenty-seven entries, we were informed the 

 trees had been planted on arable land in fifteen cases, in four the 

 land had been grass, and in the remaining eight the land had been 

 either woodland or scrub. It was satisfactory to find that in the 

 great majority of cases the plantations had been formed with trees 

 in a mixture. There were only three examples of what could be 



