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nut growing. Mr. Spencer has just told you that he has and Dr. 

 Morris loses no opportunity to give them. I have given them myself 

 and Mr. Reed of the Department of Agriculture speaks on nut cul- 

 ture. There is hardly a member of this association but belongs to 

 some agricultural society or club. That is one possible place for 

 bringing nut culture to the attention of people who are interested in 

 either agriculture or horticulture. I am sure that Mr. Reed of the 

 Department of Agriculture will send a collection of lantern slides 

 on nut growing to responsible persons. These slides make lecturing 

 much easier. I will undertake to get Mr. Reed to make up a collec- 

 tion of slides to be sent out to members for the purpose of illustrat- 

 ing lectures. My other suggestion is the writing of articles for mag- 

 azines, horticultural and agricultural, and especially high-class hor- 

 ticultural magazines that reach wealthy people who are interested in 

 new things and in trying experiments, such as the Country Gentle- 

 man, Country Life in America and the Garden Magazine. What 

 we really want is some person who will give himself continuously to 

 the promotion of this nut-growing idea. It is a great misfortune that 

 Mr. Bixby has taken up business again because he made a splendid 

 beginning in devoting himself to the interests of nut culture. I did 

 a great deal more myself in the earlier days of this society but cir- 

 cumstances have been such that lately I have not given it much 

 attention. I feel that there must be members who are all ready to 

 do work, members who would like to jump in and take a hand. I 

 would be very glad to share my work as secretary. I would be glad 

 to hand over the entire work of secretary to some member who 

 feels an itch to get in and do this sort of work. 



The President : You are very liberal in your service but I 

 think others ought to take a bigger share so that your duties will be 

 easier and also Mr. Bixby's. Now that we have this thing going 

 I hope we will stick to it until we get something concrete because I 

 can't see that we are going to make much progress just meeting from 

 year to year with an increase of twenty to twenty-five members. I 

 personally will guarantee a hundred members for this year 

 for this association. I speak advisedly because I know what 

 we have been doing in our office this last couple of months. 

 I am satisfied that I can bring to the association a hundred 

 new members this year if the rest will bring ten each. We have 

 got to get more members and more money ; let's get down to bed rock 

 and look the thing squarely in the face and make up our minds to go 

 to it and do it. 



Mr. Corsan : Where can these slides be got ? 



The Secretary : I will undertake to furnish them through Mr. 

 Reed of the Department of Agriculture. There is also a good mov- 

 ing picture film of Colonel Sober's chestnut grove that I think can 

 be had. I have used it myself two or three times. 



