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REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



at the 



EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



of the 



NORTHERN NUT GROAVERS ASSOCIATION 



(Incorporated) 



September 15 and 16, 1927 



Held in the 



COURT HOUSE 



EASTON, MARYLAND 



Chairman — President S. W. Snyder 



The meeting was called to order at 10:()() a. m. by the President 

 of tlie Association, introducing Mr. G. Layton Grier, President of the 

 Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association, who delivered the Address of 

 Welcome. 



Mr. G. Layton Grier: 



Gentlemen of the Convention : It gives me a great deal of pleasure 

 to welcome the Northern Nut Growers' Association to the Peninsula. 

 We have long needed this conference. Most people are, I presume, as 

 unfortunately situated as myself. When I came to consider the sub- 

 ject of nuts I found much to my chagrin that my thoughts naturally 

 ran along humorous rather than constructive lines, and yet T know 

 that, wherever you find them, nuts are properly a matter of serious 



