FORESTER'S REPORT. 69 



LOCATION AND AREA OF FOREST RESERVES. 



Bass River Reserve, Burlington County, See Map in Report 



1907, 1,633 acres 



Lebanon Reserve, Burlington County, See Map in Report 



1907, 3,498 



Mays Landing Reserve, Atlantic County, See Map in Report 



1907, ; 373 



Mount Laurel Reserve, Burlington County, no Map published, 20 

 Penn Reserve, Burlington County, See Map in Report 1911, 2,764 

 Edward C. Stokes Reserve, Sussex County, See Map in Re- 

 port 1907, 5,432 



Total, 13,720 acres 



PRODUCT OF THE RESERVES. 



As the average cost of these properties was but $3.30 an acre 

 they naturally held little timber of merchantable size. The 

 time to make them yield a money return is therefore in the 

 future. Nevertheless, as the growth of one kind and another 

 responds to the security from fire which has been given, the 

 value of the properties becomes apparent and small quantities 

 of various products are found to be salable. Thus a beginning 

 has been made in deriving an income from, the reserves which, 

 though insignificant in amount now, should, and under normal 

 conditions will, increase steadily from year to year. This in- 

 come for the year was $93.80, most of it coming from the sale 

 of cordwood, cedar poles, sphagnum moss and cranberries, 

 chiefly the product of the Lebanon Reserve. 



There is a good stand of pine timber on a portion of the Penn 

 Reserve which will be marketed as soon as conditions are right. 

 On the Mount Laurel Reserve, which was acquired through the 

 interest of several people in Moorestown, an improvement felling 

 is now under way. This is expected to return a good part of the 

 original cost of the property, while leaving it in better condition 

 than it was. See Figs. 14, 15. Some complaint of the fores- 

 ters' work on this reserve has been heard, but only, so far as we 

 know, from those who object to the felling of any tree. The 

 ax and saw are the forester's plow and harrow, as well as his 

 reaping 1 hook; by their intelligent use he brings a forest to ma- 

 turity, harvests the crop, and often starts the next generation. 



