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standing in line. People want to know where to get black walnuts ; 

 they write in to me. I don't know where to send them. I don't 

 suppose anybody has enough for his local trade and he doesn't have 

 to advertise; he can sell all he has. There is no advertising to 

 speak of. We are living on subscriptions. Now if you enlarge the 

 Journal, use pictures which run up all the way from six to fifteen 

 dollars apiece, you are soon using up your $1.50 per that is left out 

 of the combination membership. 



The President : Yes. 



Mr. Olcott : After paying the tremendously high printer 

 rates. A special edition can be gotten ou-t at considerable additional 

 cost. We have done it in the past and come out at the small end 

 and it took several months to get even again. We can do it again 

 for the sake of the association; but I am saying this to show why 

 it is not done oftener. 



The Pt^EsiDENT: Yes, I understand it. What do you think, 

 then, of a little co-operation on the part of the association in the way 

 of that extra expense for a special edition? 



Mr. Olcott : That's all right. In Mr. Linton's administration 

 I furnished some very large and rather expensive half-tone engrav- 

 ings on the part of the association and they worked in very nicely. I 

 don't know whether the association paid for them or whether he did. 

 I think we divided the cost of them. 



Mr. Bixby: I know he did. I have furnished some cuts myself. 



The President : Yes, I know, Mr. Bixby. You are very 

 liberal. 



The Secretary: I suggested also that those who can give 

 talks before their local horticultural societies should do so on the 

 subject of nut culture, and if they wish to go in to it extensively 

 slides could be obtained. I think that I could guarantee to obtain 

 them from the Department of Agriculture for illustrated lectures. I 

 have also another question which I would like to put before the 

 association, and that is if we cannot use in some way our surplus 

 back reports to gain new memberships. We have never been able 

 to work out any method of doing so. We have printed each year 

 an edition of a thousand numbers of the annual report. We send 

 out two hundred and fifty or three hundred ; consequently, we have 

 about seven hundred annual reports accumulating on our hands 

 every year. Now, what good are they going to be? Can't we use 

 those in some way to increase our membership ? Can't we use those 

 as premiums, distribute them gratis some way or other, or distribute 

 them for a small sum to educational institutions, newspapers and 

 agricultural journals? Can't we do something with that annual sur- 

 plus of about seven hundred nut reports to increase our member- 

 ship? 



Mr. Tucker: Why is there a thousand of them printed? 



