66 REPORT OF THE FOREST COMMISSION. 



Unfortunately this demonstration cannot be repeated for some 

 time. There is a body of mature pine or Penn Reserve but it 

 must await better transportation facilities before it can be marketed. 

 On the other southern reserves the timber is too young to be cut, 

 or is needed to furnish seed for feproduction. Stokes Reserve 

 carries a great quantity of scrap wood, at least 30,000 cords, which 

 should be got rid of, but thus far it has been impossible to interest 

 any user in the situation. As the timber cutting contract which 

 formed part of the purchase price will expire next spring and the 

 property come under the absolute control of the Forest Commis- 

 sion it may be possible to do something then. This reserve prob- 

 ably is the most valuable that the State possesses, for while it is 

 remote and the forest has been heavily cut there is a great number 

 of vigorous half-grown trees. (Fig. 14). Ten years more of 

 protection, with such improvement fellings as may be found prac- 

 ticable, will develop a considerable volume of merchantable timber. 



MOUNT LAUREL IMPROVEMENT. 



This little reserve of 20 acres carried a forest of hardwoods and 

 pine, 40 years old, that needed attention long before it came into 

 the possession of the State. By an improvement thinning made 

 last winter 45 per cent of the stand was removed at a net profit 

 of not quite $300. The remainder forest is better than that which 

 was found. The fellings, and the studies that folowed them, af- 

 forded so good an example of what forestry really does that they 

 were used as the basis of a special bulletin entitled "An Example 

 of Woodlot Forestry." This has been widely distributed and will 

 be furnished anyone upon request. 



