﻿Northern 
  Nut 
  Growers 
  Association 
  

  

  SIXTH 
  ANNUAL 
  MEETING 
  

  

  SEPTEMBER, 
  1 
  AND 
  2, 
  1915 
  

   Rochester, 
  New 
  York 
  

  

  The 
  sixth 
  annual 
  convention 
  of 
  the 
  Northern 
  Nut 
  Growers 
  

   Association 
  was 
  called 
  to 
  order 
  in 
  the 
  convention 
  hall 
  of 
  Powers 
  

   Hotel, 
  Rochester, 
  New 
  York, 
  on 
  Wednesday, 
  September 
  1, 
  at 
  10:15 
  

   A. 
  M., 
  the 
  president, 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  Russell 
  Smith, 
  presiding, 
  and 
  thirty-two 
  

   people 
  being 
  assembled. 
  

  

  The 
  President: 
  Ladies 
  and 
  Gentlemen, 
  Members 
  of 
  the 
  

   Northern 
  Nut 
  Growers 
  Association, 
  the 
  meeting 
  will 
  please 
  come 
  

   to 
  order. 
  

  

  With 
  an 
  organization 
  of 
  this 
  sort, 
  the 
  main 
  purpose 
  of 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   is 
  the 
  dissemination 
  of 
  information, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  necessary 
  that 
  certain 
  

   business 
  shall 
  be 
  conducted 
  to 
  keep 
  the 
  organization 
  going. 
  Some 
  

   business 
  is 
  dry; 
  usually 
  the 
  reports 
  of 
  our 
  secretary-treasurer 
  are 
  

   not, 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  order 
  of 
  business, 
  I 
  think, 
  should 
  be 
  to 
  hear 
  from 
  

   our 
  secretary-treasurer. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Littlepage 
  : 
  I 
  should 
  be 
  glad 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  floor 
  for 
  a 
  mo- 
  

   ment, 
  Mr. 
  President. 
  In 
  the 
  Congressional 
  Library 
  at 
  Washington 
  

   City 
  are 
  many 
  very 
  beautiful 
  and 
  attractive 
  inscriptions 
  and 
  quo- 
  

   tations, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  always 
  appealed 
  to 
  me 
  as 
  a 
  lawyer, 
  and 
  

   I 
  have 
  repeated 
  it 
  many 
  times: 
  

  

  "Of 
  law 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  less 
  acknowledged 
  than 
  that 
  her 
  voice 
  is 
  the 
  harmony 
  

   •of 
  the 
  world." 
  

  

  Mr. 
  President, 
  I 
  have 
  noted 
  very 
  many 
  times 
  that 
  the 
  voice 
  of 
  the 
  

   law 
  is 
  sometimes 
  silent. 
  It 
  speaks 
  only 
  through 
  those 
  in 
  authority 
  

   and 
  there 
  should 
  always 
  be 
  some 
  emblem 
  of 
  authority. 
  I 
  therefore 
  

   took 
  the 
  liberty, 
  Mr. 
  President, 
  of 
  having 
  made 
  for 
  you 
  a 
  gavel 
  

   from 
  the 
  wood 
  of 
  an 
  Indiana 
  pecan 
  tree, 
  where 
  as 
  a 
  youth 
  I 
  Hved 
  

   and 
  learned 
  of 
  this 
  most 
  delicious 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  nuts, 
  and 
  I 
  take 
  pleasure 
  

   in 
  presenting 
  it 
  to 
  you, 
  and 
  if 
  anyone 
  doubts 
  the 
  hardiness 
  or 
  hard- 
  

   ness 
  of 
  the 
  Indiana 
  pecan, 
  I 
  authorize 
  you 
  to 
  demonstrate 
  both. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  presenting 
  you 
  duphcate 
  gavels, 
  Mr. 
  President, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  

   I 
  desire 
  to 
  have 
  you 
  turn 
  over 
  to 
  your 
  successor 
  in 
  ofiice 
  as 
  an 
  

  

  