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areas within the reserves where colonies can be advantageously 

 located, where farming can be carried on and where some win- 

 ter work in forestry can be provided. Furthermore, there is 

 great need, off the reserves as well as on them, for the cleaning 

 of forest roads so that they shall be effective fire lines. This in 

 particular offers an opportunity for the employment of a lim- 

 ited number of convicts. It is expected that some of these pro- 

 jects will crystallize during the coming year. 



SURVEYS. 



A survey of Stokes reserve has been practically completed 

 and provision made for marking each corner permanently. In 

 so rough a territory, and with many doubtful points in the old 

 survey, this has been a task of some difficulty. Considerable 

 work of this kind remains to be done on other reserves, several 

 points in the original surveys having been found faulty. 



SHELTER CABINS. 



To the cabins erected last year on Lebanon and Penn re- 

 serves a larger one, built of logs, has been added this year on 

 Stokes reserve. This will serve as headquarters for the warden 

 and shelter to any who may be working on or visiting the re- 

 serve. Its cost, including furniture, was about $400. 



FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



In the spring a number of experimental plantations were 

 made on Mays Landing, Bass River and Lebanon reserves. 

 These were located on old fields and designed to give some 

 exact information about the availability of various conifers, 

 chiefly pines, for planting on the poorer soils of South Jersey. 

 No results can be expected for several years. 



It is possible to record, however, and with some satisfaction, 

 that the plantations made in 1907 on the Conger tract at New 

 Brunswick are in several instances developing true forest forms. 

 The evergreens there planted have not succeeded well, proving, 

 as was expected, that the heavy soil of that section is not 



