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the state vice presidents be brought into Hne. Mr. Spencer has 

 made a very good suggestion for them and that is to encourage 

 friendly competition in dressing up yards, one section against an- 

 other. If the state vice presidents would use that suggestion in 

 getting new members I believe it would be a good thing. I believe 

 also, as I have said many times that the state vice presidents should 

 be the local directors of a state association subsidiary to this one, 

 that Ohio, for instance, should have an association of Ohio nut 

 growers. If they can't meet then let them correspond back and 

 forth. Certainly the nut growers of Ohio should know each other 

 and be brought in to correspondence. They could do that through 

 an association of which our state vice president would be the chair- 

 man or the local president. I am a great believer in organization 

 and I feel that the state vice presidents should amount to something. 

 After the state organization is started by this association in that 

 way, then the members of each association could elect their own 

 chairman, if they wish, and report it to our secretary. 



The President : That is along the line of the suggestion 

 offered by Professor Neilson this afternoon. 



Mr. Olcott: Yes. We could have a branch in Canada. 

 The Secretary: The secretary will be glad to see that Mr. 

 Olcott's suggestion is incorporated in the letters to the state vice 

 presidents. 



Mr. Jones : We would be glad to make up a mailing list and 

 turn it over to the secretary if he should want to circularize in mak- 

 ing this offer or any other offer for memberships. 



The President: If we could get this thing where it ought 

 to be it is possible that we might be able to induce the secretary 

 to give his entire attention to the interests of the Northern Nut 

 Growers Association. He would have to have a lucrative salary 

 of course. That is one of my ambitions. I am frank to state it 

 here right now. 



Then the Northern Nut Growers Association would be the 

 thing that it is supposed to be, the thing that it is not at the present 

 time when we're meeting with a deficit every year. I hope and be- 

 lieve, in fact it must be, that this is the last time we are going to meet 

 with a deficit. We are going to have a good surplus next year or 

 what is the use of going on? 



Mr. Spencer : The governors of three or four of the states 

 met in Chicago not very long ago to consider the interests of the 

 states that center around Chicago. The people in Illinois don't 

 know that the Forest Reserve covers sixteen thousand acres and that 

 it has English walnuts growing just as nicely as you have them 

 here. That knowledge hasn't been spread. Also there are people 

 who are propagating nut trees in Illinois and southern Indiana. Now 

 if our vice presidents in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri, which 

 is the native home of most every kind of hickory, would get together 

 and go to any one of the central cities of those particular states, call 



