ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 67 
“West Farms Block.’—For convenience this name is applied to 
the recent addition to Bronx Park which was made at West 
Farms. Owing to the fact that its surface lies well below the 
level of the Boston Road, which bounds it on the west, a very con- 
siderable amount of filling is necessary to bring its surface up to 
an acceptable grade. During the year about 5,000 yards of soil 
were hauled to this spot and disposed of to the best advantage ; 
but even with this, much more work remains to be done. Work 
on this feature will be taken up actively in the early spring. Much 
of the stone for the entrance walk that is to be built there is 
already on the ground. 
The Large Buffalo Range, from which, as a sanitary measure, 
the top soil was removed to a depth of six inches, was worked over 
and seeded down with red-top—a grass which it is believed will 
be better for the buffaloes than the unwholesome mixture of old 
grasses which originally covered the range. 
Miscellaneous Items.—Of the very large number of minor per- 
manent improvements carried out during 1906, mention should be 
made of the following :— 
Several thousand yards of top soil for the sides of the Con- 
course have been hauled and stored at the eastern end of Cope 
Lake. 
A flight of steps forty feet wide was built at the Fordham 
Entrance, because of an important change in the level of the street. 
Cages for breeding birds were built around the outside of the 
Breeding House, situated near the Aquatic Birds’ House. 
A water gate, of iron and wood, was built and hung under the 
Pelham Avenue bridge, to protect the interior of the Park. 
A concrete root-cellar was constructed in the Nursery. 
Two new drinking fountains were installed—near the Fox Dens 
and the Aquatic Birds’ House. 
Important alterations were made in the Pavilion lunch-room, at 
the Rocking-Stone Restaurant. 
Concrete floors were laid in all the deer houses not previously 
provided with them. 
The following figures give a summary of what was accom- 
plished during 1906 on some of the lines mentioned above: 
Wialks=sutiaced agith tar <0.) s2 28,000 square feet. 
Walks resurfaced with stone....... 17,000 _ - 
ie wrewralksx Dita nts. a. 3 sce Sees acces 3,200 * 
SERVIC GAGS tenis skews ne ve eters 3,600 % ‘< 
New fences: erected’... 4.5: WKS 2.850: lineal, 4 
