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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
Mr. Barker’s report on Lakewood has been repro- 
duced for the edification of the lot owners and 
the superintendent’s convention is referred to as 
follows: 
In September last we were favored by the meet- 
ing in this city of the annual convention of Ceme- 
tery Superintendents, your board took some pains 
to entertain the convention, and in our intercourse 
we found its members to be men of ability, full of 
the energy of a progressive spirit, and genial gen- 
tlemen whom it was a pleasure to meet. The dis- 
cussions at the meetings were full of interesting and 
profitable suggestions and your board has come to 
believe that this body of representative cemetery 
enthusiasts can and does result in great good to all, 
in any way interested in the cemeteries of the coun- 
try. 
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An interesting account of the work of extermi- 
nating the gypsy moth from the trees in Harmony 
Grove cemetery, Salem, Mass., was read at the re- 
cent annual meeting. The report which we take 
from a local paper states that in May, 1893, many 
of the trees were found to be infested. From 17 
trees and adjoining fences, 1,018 new egg-clusters 
and 30 old egg-clusters were taken. At the same 
time 58 new and i old were taken from estates and 
street trees near by. To facilitate further care in 
inspection, the rough bark was hewed from the 
large trees and the dead branches were removed, 
and the rubbish was burned. Fourteen trees were 
banded with Raupenleim to prevent the larva; from 
ascending the trees; 343 trees in the cemetery and 
283 on adjoining estates were also banded with burlap 
during the spring. From these burlapped trees, in 
the cemetery, 3,031 larvae were taken, also8 pupae; 
on adjoining estates and street trees, 283 larvae, 
9 pupae and 4 moths were tound. As a result of 
this work, only one new nest was found on the 
cemetery grounds during the fall. The first larvae 
was found May 29, 1893. The number killed dur- 
ing the week ended June 3, was 1,198; in August, 
only seven nests were found, which attests the good 
work performed and effective methods employed. 
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Extracts from a summary report of the treasurer 
and superintendent of Fairmount cemetery, New- 
ark, N. J., for the past year. Receipts from sin- 
gle grave and lot sales, $ 33 , 972 . Total receipts, 
$43,157.84. Total expenditures, $41,872.35, of 
which amount $17,589 was for salaries and labor. 
Number of lots sold, 115, entire number sold to 
date, 2,909. Lots under perpetual care, 1,486. 
Total number of lots cared for, 2,013. Single 
graves sold, 677. Sodded, 1,654. Monuments 
erected, 49; headstones, 173. Hedges removed, 52. 
Interments, 1,278. Total to January ist, 1894, 
27,921. Mr. Nichols writes that a number of im- 
provements were made in and around the cemetery. 
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state or Local Associations of Cemetery Superintendents. 
Editor Modern Cemetery: 
I desire to call attention to a matter which I 
think has not had a fair consideration. 
On page 72 of the convention proceedings for 
1893 we read that Mr. Me Carthy, Chairman of 
the committee on Local Associations, stated that 
“the committee was not ready to report. A vote 
was taken which showed it was the sense of the 
meeting that State Associations were not advisable.” 
What was it that prompted the President at the 
Baltimore convention to call the attention of the 
members to this subject? On p. 5. proceedings of 
the sixth convention, we read, “I have been im- 
pressed lately that we are not extending our influ- 
ence to the extent that it is our privilege to do, we 
do not reach all the superintendents that we ought. 
The proportion is far too small. The United States 
is a big place, and it needs no argumentto convince 
you that any of the places where we have met, have 
been too far off for many at a remote distance from 
the place of meeting to come. In a recent number 
of Modern Cemetery a writer advocated the form- 
ing of state associations. This might do for larger 
states, but the smaller ones I am doubtful about. 
I think New England at least should have an organ- 
ization, and I feel confident that we may reach 
many that we can not through this organization, and 
perhaps the other States may be divided in some 
such way. I think greater benefits may be derived 
through the local societies. I trust a committee 
may be appointed to carefully consider this subject 
and report at this meeting (Sep. 1892.)” The 
committee was appointed but did not report at that 
meeting and at the next meeting, Aug. 1893 were 
not ready then, and without any sort of considera- 
tion the whole matter was peremptorily squelched. 
The writer regrets that at that particular moment 
when action was taken he was called out, and so 
had no chance to speak upon the subject but having 
been requested to speak through the columns of the 
Modern Cemetery I gladly do so and will try to 
confine myself to facts in support of my position. 
Out of a membership of 124 only about one- 
third, (41), were present. Massachusetts 4, Ohio 
9, Illinois 3, Minnessota 6, Missouri i, Michigan 
2, Nebraska 3, New York 3, Indiana i, Iowa 2, 
