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$346.80 $280.73
Deficit $66.07

Our first annual report, embodying the transactions at the first
and second annual meetings, was issued in May, and copies were sent
to all members, to the principal libraries of the country, to
officials of the Agricultural Department at Washington, and to some
state agricultural officials, to several agricultural and other
periodicals for notice and review, and to various persons
especially interested. Eighteen copies have been sold.

About 1,000 copies of each of the two circulars, "Why Nut Culture
is Important" and "The Northern Nut Growers Association and Why You
Should Join It", have been sent to members and correspondents, and
also revised circulars on the literature of nut growing and on
seedsmen and nurserymen.

An illustrated article about nut growing and the association
appeared in the Literary Digest and many agricultural and other
periodicals have had notices of our association and our meeting.

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Besides the regular notices sent to members and papers, different
notices and brief statements about nut growing, were sent weekly
for five weeks before the meeting to 80 different newspapers
published in the country about Lancaster in the hope of getting a
good local attendance. The Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission
assisted in this publicity campaign by sending postal card notices
to about a hundred persons in the eastern part of Pennsylvania who
were known to have from a few to thousands of cultivated chestnut
trees.

The secretary's correspondence has increased so as to become, if it
were not for enthusiasm, burdensome. Often several inquiries a day
are received and they come from all parts of the United States and
Canada.

The following figures are brought up to date of going to press.

Our membership has nearly doubled since the last report was issued,
increasing from 60 to 113. We have lost 1 member by death and 2 by
resignation. Our present membership standing at 110.

We have members in 27 states, the District of Columbia, Panama, and
Canada. New York heads the list with 37 members and Pennsylvania