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ber. Then the Overseer of the Boy Scouts, a tall young fellow with 

 sandy hair and a good complexion, I have forgotten his name, but 

 he is a splendid fellow. He was enthusiastic but he hasn't come in 

 as a member. I met Mr. McLean of the Orphan's Home and he is 

 going to have the Orphan's Home planted with nut trees, but he 

 didn't join the society. I suppose I didn't beg them enough. I sup- 

 pose I should say, "Give your money to me right now, immediately, 

 and let me send it over to Mr. Bixby." I think that would be the 

 best method of getting in new members. Then they will read the 

 literature and keep in touch with the association. I must confess 

 downright negligence for not getting members into the association. I 

 thought we were a kind of a rich gang and don't need money. But 

 we have got to have money in order to get people into the idea of 

 growing nut trees. 



The President: What seems to be the objection? 



Mr. Corsan : No objection at all except I had that fault of not 

 gathering in their membership while I was speaking to them upon 

 the possibilities of nut culture. 



The President: If you don't get some members in this year 

 there will be trouble ! 



Mr. Corsan : Why not give a tree with every new membership 

 so that the member can plant a nut tree on his own farm, and the 

 Boy Scouts and also the Girl Scouts would come into this thing, too, 

 as the tall gentleman from Decatur has said. 



Mr. Patterson : I should like to tell you what happens in our 

 association in the south of Georgia. For a number of years our 

 treasurer has come up with a deficit each year. The only practical 

 way that we have found in the southern nut growers' association for 

 increasing our membership and getting additional funds is to do it 

 by subscriptions taken at the meeting. Let each man pledge so 

 many members and turn over the money to the treasurer to pay up 

 for the members that he has pledged. Then let him go out and get 

 the members to reimburse himself. In that way we have increased 

 our membership very much. I do not say that that is the way that it 

 should be handled here but that is the only way we have found of 

 solving the problem. 



Mr. Taylor : I represent the Northern Apple Growers' Ex- 

 change. We want to get people who grow apples into our associa- 

 tion and the first thing of all is to get them interested. You first 

 have to attract the attention of a man, your prospective member, and 

 then you have to arouse his interest and you have to create a desire. 

 We found that in order to attract his attention a circularization of 

 people who were eligible for membership accomplished a great deal. 

 These people were circularized, given little bits of information here 

 and there, not the information that was given the members as a rule, 

 not to that extent, but they were given a certain lot of information 

 from time to time to let them know that the Apple Growers' Ex- 

 change was there. After a while they were approached personally 



