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member of the Vermont Public Service 
Commission. 
“Uniform Cemetery Laws,” by Walter 
Puckett, Pres. Treas. Elmwood Cemetery 
Corporation, Birmingham, Ala. 
“Application of Landscape Design to 
the Cemetery,” by Professor George P. 
Burns, head of University of Vermont 
Department of Botany. Mr. Burns is 
known as one of the greatest botanists in 
the United States, and is also an expert 
landscape gardener. His address will be 
illustrated with lantern slides. 
“Location and Formations of New Eng- 
land Granites,” by Professor G. H. Per- 
kins, Vermont State Geologist. 
“The Crematory as an Adjunct to the 
Modern Cemetery,” by James Currie, su- 
perintendent Forest Home Cemetery, Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 
“The Pricing of Cemetery Lots,” by W. 
N. Rudd, president Mt. Greenwood Ceme- 
tery, Chicago. 
“Service,” by H. C. Bassinger, super- 
intendent Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, 
Michigan. 
“Some Choice Trees and Shrubs for 
Southern Cemeteries,” by Sid. J. Hare, 
landscape architect, Kansas City, Mo. 
“The Ideal Cemetery,” by Frederick 
Green, Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, O. 
“Our Cemetery, Ancient and Modern,” 
State F 0 r e 
The above caption may be considered 
in order at this time, inasmuch as we now 
have three state forests and can proper- 
ly refer to them in the possessive sense. 
The movement for their establishment is 
one with which members of the associa- 
tion are entirely familiar by reason of the 
fact that the association, amongst other 
organizations interested in the welfare of 
the state, has been largely instrumental in 
making state forests a reality here in Mas- 
sachusetts. A distinction should be made 
between the state forests to which this ar- 
ticle has reference and such areas as exist- 
ing state reservations or parks, for the rea- 
son that the former comprise mainly or 
entirely waste lands having upon them little 
or no tree growth of merchantable value 
at the present time. The main purpose, in 
fact, of the movement for the establish- 
ment of state forests was the reclamation 
of a part at least of the hundreds of 
thousands of acres of waste or non-pro- 
ductive forest land throughout the com- 
monwealth. 
A realization of the fact that the waste 
land question in this state was such as to 
require serious consideration by the legis- 
lature was evidenced in June of 1914, under 
the administration of Governor David 1. 
Walsh, when the law creating the present 
state forest commission was enacted. Brief- 
P ARK AND C EM ET ER F. 
by Leonard W. Ross, Mount Hope Ceme- 
tery, Boston. 
Details of the remarkable entertainment 
features are not announced by the com- 
mittee because these are to be in the na- 
ture of a surprise, but an elaborate and 
unique program of entertainment has been 
fully prepared that will present the won- 
derful scenic resources of Barre and vicin- 
ity in a manner that will never be forgot- 
ten. 
Transportation 
Transportation arrangements for the 
Barre convention are practically con- 
cluded, and efforts are being made to con- 
centrate superintendents at various points 
for the final ride to Barre. Chicago, Buf- 
falo, New York and Boston will be gath- 
ering points according to present plans. 
In order to facilitate the transportation 
services, every superintendent is requested 
to communicate with the passenger agent 
in his section. The sooner this is done, 
the easier it will be to determine just what 
Pullman arrangements can be made. 
Superintendents west of Chicago should 
communicate with J. D. McDonald, assist- 
ant general passenger agent. Grand Trunk 
R. R., Chicago, 111. This division includes 
Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the 
other western and southern states whose 
s t s of Mas 
By Frank L. Haynes, Engineer 
for the Stale Frrest Commission. 
ly, the law called for the creation of an 
unpaid commission of three members, de- 
fined their duties as the acquisition of wild 
and waste lands for the commonwealth, 
limited the average purchase price per acre 
to $ 0 , and made available $10,000 for the 
first year and $20,000 for each of the suc- 
ceeding four years with which to purchase 
lands. The commission, since its inception 
two and one-half years ago, has acquired 
by purchase for the state approximately 
9,0o5 acres of land at a total cost of $31,- 
913.69, or an average cost of $3.52 per acre. 
The first tract acquired by the commis- 
sion is located in Winchendon, Mass., the 
well-known toy-town. It occupies the 
southwest corner of the township and runs 
over to a small extent on the west side 
into Royalston and on the south into Tem- 
pleton. It comprises about 1,700 acres, and 
has been officially designated as the Otter 
River State Forest, being so named after 
the Otter river which forms a portion of 
the eastern boundary of the forest. The 
area comprising the above forest consists 
to a large extent of cut-over land, and 
forms a portion of a section well adapted 
to the production of red, white and Scotch 
pine or spruce. A few natural stands of 
red pine showing good growth are at pres- 
ent to be seen in the immediate vicinity. 
Since its acquisition in 1915 a small res- 
concentration and passing point is natur- 
ally Chicago. 
Those east of this point and located in 
Indiana, Ohio and western New York 
should write to Harry Parry, assistant 
general passenger agent, N. Y. C. R. R., 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
j Superintendents south and west of New 
York City, who are not included in the 
other parties should write to A. H. Seaver, 
assistant general passenger agent, N. Y., 
N. H. & H. R. R., New York City. 
Those in New England should write to 
Horace A. Derry, Glenwood Cemetery, 
Everett, Mass. Superintendent Derry has 
been designated by his fellow superintend- 
ents to concentrate the New England dele- 
gation at Boston for a trip ensemble to 
Barre. 
''Boston Day" 
In view of the presence of cemetery 
superintendents from all over the country 
at the Barre convention, the New England 
superintendents have arranged for a “Bos- 
ton Day” to be held September 1. 
Every superintendent is urged to go 
home through Boston, where a special 
trip through the cemeteries is being ar- 
ranged for Saturday, September 1. It will 
be a trip that none can afford to miss. 
Notify Henry S. Adams, Forest Hills 
Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Mass., regarding 
your intentions. 
sachusetts 
ervation house included in the purchase has 
been put into condition for occupancy, a 
nursery has been established, fire lines 
made, some brush burning has been done 
and several thousand transplants have been 
set out. The Otter river forest is readily 
accessible by automobile, train and trolley, 
being but one and a half miles- from 
Bardwinsville, the same distance from 
South Royalston, and about four miles 
from Winchendon. The average cost per 
acre of this forest was $4.70. It is pos- 
sible that sufficient additional land may be 
purchased so that the lines of this forest 
and those of the State Colony for Feeble- 
Minded lands in Templeton will join. 
The second state forest acquired by the 
commission constitutes a tract of approxi- 
mately 6,477 acres, inclusive of water areas, 
and is situated mainly in the southwest 
portion of Plymouth township, the south- 
ern boundary being the town line between 
Plymouth and Wareham. It is perhaps not 
generally known that in the section in 
which the above tract is located there is a 
belt of land covering thousands of acres 
in an almost unbroken stretch, the same 
being as level, or slightly rolling, as some 
of the prairie sectipns of the west. 
The large area was, according to old 
residents of Plymouth and Carver, former- 
ly covered with stands of large white and 
