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If your secretary lias done any one thing commendable, it is due 

 to the unfailing good will and co-operation at all times, and under all 

 circumstances, manifested toward him by Dr. William C. Deming, 

 C. A. Reed, Lewis Edwin Theiss, W. G. Bixby, Ralph Olcott, Dr. 

 Robert T. Morris, A. S. Colby, Thomas P. Littlepage, and Dr. J. 

 Russell Smith besides those already mentioned, and many others. 



The kindness, sympathy and appreciation of efforts made, shown to 

 your secretary, creates a glow of gratitude in his heart that words 

 can neither picture nor express. 



Here is one letter I would like to read to the people who think that 

 nut growing cannot be carried on and that they ought not to go into it 

 because it is so discouraging and such hard work: 



Normandy, Tenn., March 19, 1927 



Your letter of last Nov. 6th reached me, sick, helpless, diabetes vic- 

 tim, leg off. I am now some better and write you. My heart is still 

 for pecans, especially, and fruited some nice ones last October. A 

 boy was here a few days ago, all enthusiasm, for he had seen the 

 products. The Major is a favorite. Have the Luckado, which should 

 bear this season of Major type. Am charmed with its thrift. Also 

 Marquardt, which I hope to fruit also. Have it grafted on large pecan. 

 I successfully did all kinds of propagating, pecan on hickory, etc. 

 The latter on shellbark, so far is doing well. 



Have you minutes of St. Louis meeting? And of last Fall? Price 

 them. I keep pecans at head of bed, and show them to inquirers. They 

 can scarcely believe that such fine paper shelled nuts can be grown here. 

 From my work as a nucleus, a great planting will be made. I see that 

 cominff. Thanks for information as to minutes. Am seated on bed 

 with machine on my Morris. 



J. W. Waite 



I will read the report of Mr. John E. Cannaday of Charleston, 

 West Virginia. 



Although I have been observing walnuts, as well as the European 

 varieties of filberts, for more than ten years and' have planted a num- 

 ber of them, I have yet to see any promising indication of a crop in this 

 particular section which, with the adjacent hills, varies from 600 to 

 1800 feet above sea-level. I have a few northern belt pecan trees that 

 have grown rapidly. Some of them have been out for eight years. This 

 year one pecan set on one of them. 



