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Northern Nut Growers Association

SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

SEPTEMBER 8 AND 9, 1916

WASHINGTON, D. C.

The seventh annual meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association was
called to order in rooms 42-43 of the new building of the National
Museum at Washington, D. C., on Friday, September 8th, at 10 a. m., the
president, Dr. J. Russell Smith, presiding.

THE PRESIDENT: It is often customary to start meetings of this sort with
a considerable amount of eloquence, such as an address of welcome by
some high city or state official, a response to the address of welcome
by some one else high in authority, and so on, during which the visitors
are told of the many privileges they may enjoy, "the keys of the town"
are handed over to them, and a good deal of high-flown oratory is
indulged in. We suppose that the people in attendance at this meeting
are so well acquainted with Washington that those preliminaries are
unnecessary, and I have been informed by the members of the local
committee that we can dispense with the frills in this case and proceed
with the business of the meeting, which we think is going to rather
crowd our time if we get said all that we want to say. We are going to
devote this morning's programme first to a paper by Dr. Robert T. Morris
on the chinquapin, and then to the discussion of a comparatively newly
considered member of our nut family, namely, the American black walnut.
We have been heretofore much interested in sundry exotics and talking
far too little about this great tree nearer home.

Before taking up the technical programme we have a few matters of
business to put through. First, we will have the report of the secretary
and treasurer.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER

Balance on hand date of last report $ 140.24
Receipts:
Dues 292.75
Advertisements 21.00
Contributions 5.50
Sale of report 34.75
Contributions for prizes 10.00
Miscellaneous .65
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$504.89

Expenses:
Printing report