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Farm  Prize  Competition , 1910. 
The  nurseries  at  Vyrnwy  are  worth  a long  journey  to  visit, 
as  are  also  the  extensive  plantations  which  the  Liverpool  Cor- 
poration are  forming  there  around  their  beautiful  artificial  lake.1 
The  advantages  arising  out  of  the  establishment  of  home 
nurseries  are  great.  The  plants  are  acclimatized  from  the  first, 
they  do  not  bring  disease,  and  they  can  be  lifted  as  required, 
without  running  the  risk  of  travelling  long  journeys  in  frosty 
weather,  or  being  sweated  to  death  by  lying  a long  time  in 
bundles  in  trenches  as  they  are  sometimes  allowed  to  do. 
The  Societies  are  to  be  congratulated  on  the  educational  in- 
fluence of  their  competitions,  which  cannot  but  have  a great 
effect  upon  the  knowledge  of  timber  growing  by  the  general 
public,  as  well  as  those  more  intimately  interested,  as  the  Show 
is  year  by  year  moved  from  one  part  of  the  country  to  another. 
Calverley,  near  Leeds.  SAMUEL  MARGERISON. 
FARM  PRIZE  COMPETITION,  1910. 
The  Farm  Prize  Competition,  held  in  connection  with  the 
Liverpool  Show  of  1910,  comprised  the  areas  of  the  two 
counties  of  Lancaster  and  Chester. 
Prizes  were  offered  for  the  best-managed  farms  in  these  two 
counties,  in  the  following  classifications  : — 
Class  I. — Farm,  chiefly  Arable,  of  150  acres  or  over,  exclusive  of 
Fell  or  Tidal  Marsh  Land.  First  Prize,  100L  Second  Prize,  SOL 
Class  II. — Farm,  chiefly  Arable,  of  not  less  than  50  acres  ai  d 
under  150  acres,  exclusive  of  Fell  or  Tidal  Marsh  Land.  First  Prize,  50 1. 
Second  Prize,  25L 
Class  III. — Stock  or  Dairy  Farm,  of  150  acres  or  over,  exclusive  of 
Fell  or  Tidal  Marsh  Land.  First  Prize,  100L  Second  Prize,  SOL 
Class  IV. — Stock  or  Dairy  Farm,  of  not  less  than  50  acres,  and  under 
150  acres,  exclusive  of  Fell  or  Tidal  Marsh  Land.  First  Prize,  50 1.  Second 
Prize,  25 L 
An  entry  fee  of  21.  was  charged  to  members  of  the  Society, 
in  Classes  1 and  3,  and  4Z.  to  non -members.  In  Classes  2 and 
4,  an  entry  fee  of  1 1.  to  members  of  the  Society,  and  2/.  to  non- 
members. Under  the  conditions  of  entry,  the  competition  was 
limited  to  tenant  farmers  paying  a bona-fide  rent  for  at  least 
three-quarters  of  the  land  in  their  occupation.  In  the  case  of  a 
1 It  is  now  generally  acknowledged  that  great  benefits  accrue  from  planting 
water-catchment  areas.  The  trees  take  the  place  of  farms  with  their  dangers 
of  polluting  the  water:  they  condense  and  bring  down  fogs  from  the  air,  they 
prevent  evaporation  from  the  ground,  they  prevent  great  and  sudden  rushes  of 
storm-water,  and  at  the  same  time  prevent  a vast  amount  of  silt  being  carried 
into  the  reservoirs,  and,  both  by  the  covering  of  leaves  and  by  penetration  of  the 
roots,  help  the  water  to  percolate  the  soil  and  thus  give  it  a considerable 
filtration. 
