210 Report on the Forestry Exhibition at Newcastle. 
Dr. H. R. Mill, the Director of the British Rainfall 
Organisation, contributed some specially prepared maps showing 
(1) the average annual rainfall of the North of England and 
the South of Scotland ; and (2) the heavy rainfall of October 8, 
1903, over the North of England, when more than three inches 
fell along the coast of Northumberland and Durham. 
In a railed-off enclosure in the ground adjoining the 
Agricultural Education Pavilion, a fully equipped Climatological 
Station was arranged, with the various instruments in position, 
and readings were taken hourly during the Show. These 
observations, together with the weather charts for 7 a.m. and 
6 p.m., and the special telegram from the Meteorological Office, 
giving the forecast of the day, were posted up in the Pavilion 
for general information. Addresses were given each day b. r 
Mr. W. Marriott. 
REPORT ON THE FORESTRY EXHIBITION 
AT NEWCASTLE. 
The Forestry Exhibits generally were of considerable interest 
to both professional foresters and the ordinary visitor. In the 
competitive classes the entries were, with one or two exceptions, 
few in number, but the quality of the exhibits was of a very 
high order. The planks and boards cut from the ordinary 
forest trees were exceptionally fine, both as regards size and 
quality, and in Class 2 the whole of the seven entries left 
little to be desired in the way of quality as far as larch and 
Scots pine were concerned. 
The classes for exhibits of an educational character, such 
as specimens of good and bad pruning and . thinning, insect 
pests, and diseases of trees, were filled by extremely good and 
instructive entries, the chief exhibitors being the Duke of 
Northumberland, K.G., and the Earl of Yarborough. 
The entries of field gates were nine in number, and 
included several very cheap and well-made gates suitable for 
farm and estate use. For hunting gates the Duke of 
Northumberland was awarded the silver medal for a cheap, 
well-made gate, fitted with a patent fastening which attracted 
much attention. Creosoted fencing, gates, tree guards, &c., 
were shown by Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Yarborough. 
The exhibit of the former comprised almost every article 
capable of being manufactured from home-grown coniferous 
wood, while the latter showed specimen lengths of park 
fencing of both wood, and wood and wire combined. This 
latter fence consisted of ten lines of No. 8 wire, the lower 
