REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
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Gloucester county, N. J., a man who had taken great interest in 
the forestry of New Jersey. He replied that he would be glad to 
assist, and at once commenced the collection of specimens of 
South Jersey woods, which he did, and in 1899 he shipped by 
freight sixty-five fine specimens “as a present to the New Jersey 
State Museum,” with the hope that they would be the beginning 
of a complete collection of the woods of New Jersey. He was 
assisted by the following persons, who presented specimens to 
the Museum : 
Charles Heritage of Mickleton, Gloucester County, N. J., 
Charles D. Eippincott, Swedesboro, N. J., . 
John Heritage, Mickleton, N. J., . 
J. C. Heritage (a nephew), Mickleton, N. J., . 
Elmer Bradshaw, ... 
Hope L. Moore, . 
Joseph Stratton, . 
John P. Reese, .. 
James Helms, . 
Wm. H. Borden, . 
Samuel Borton, ... 
David S. Adams, ... 
Edward Clark, . 
George Magin, .. * ... 
Joseph Lodge, . 
Mickleton Friends’ School, . 
Job S. Haines, . 
Wm. H. Hoffman, . 
Burkett Warrington, . 
Joseph T. Carter, .*.. 
Wm. H. Ogden, . 
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Mr. Benjamin Heritage writes that the specimens contributed 
by his brother Charles “were grown on a clay loam soil, underlaid 
by a compact clay, in which timber grows very rapidly, as is 
demonstrated by the annual growth of the specimens. Eight 
measured acres in one of the adjoining fields produced 320 bushels 
of wheat, which averaged 64 pounds to the bushel as measured by 
the thresher, making about 42 standard bushels per acre. On 
this farm I once cut a chestnut tree twelve years old that 
measured fifty feet in height, and the stump was twelve inches in 
diameter. A most remarkable growth.” 
