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The Secretary: Because you can get a thousand for just 

 about the same price that you get five hundred, or a very little more. 



Mr. O'Connor: Mr. President, why couldn't some of those 

 be sent to the different experiment stations; also to some of our 

 libraries? We have a number of experiment stations that don't 

 see anything of this kind and that don't know that such a thing 

 exists as the Northern Nut Growers Association. It is only recently 

 that within the state of Minnesota they knew there was such a thing. 

 I have offered a prize in that state for nut culture work. This winter 

 I am going to speak at the Maryland Horticultural meeting, which 

 will be held in Baltimore, and wherever I can get a chance at any 

 of those meetings I always put in a word for the nut. Over on the 

 eastern shore of Maryland, I went into one of the largest apple 

 orchards and nurseries, I believe, in the United States. There were 

 a few northern pecans growing in the yard, and when I asked one 

 of the young men what kind of pecans they were, he said, "Well, I 

 don't know whether it is Indiana or just what it is; but I know it is 

 a pecan." That was growing very beautifully right under the win- 

 dow, you might say, of their dwelling house. That was over at 

 Berlin, at Mr. Harrison's. He likes to sell to nut tree owners, and 

 yet has he come to his year's meeting? Is he a member of the asso- 

 ciation ? For that reason I don't feel like helping him to sell a tree 

 as long as he is not a member. But every chance I get I will put 

 in a good word for the nut tree firm. 



I think by sending out our literature to different magazines, to 

 the different experiment stations and over into Canada we would be 

 greatly benefited. We have got some good friends to the north of 

 us. Why not send them some copies and have them help spread this 

 good thing along? 



The Secretary : I would like to have Mr. Bixby state about 

 the distribution of those reports outside of the membership. Is there 

 any gratis distribution now ? 



Mr. Bixby : No, there isn't. There used to be and I made 

 every one of them who received them gratis buy them of me. 



The Secretary : About how many institutions now buy the 

 journal ? 



Mr. Bixby: I should say about half a dozen. That's the same 

 number that had them free before. In nearly every instance when 

 they would write in and request it I would tell them how the associ- 

 ation was doing work the Department of Agriculture ought to do, 

 supporting itself with great difficulty, and we would be glad to have 

 them as a member; that if not a member we would furnish a report 

 for so much. In nearly every case we got them as members or they 

 bought the report. As I said before I don't believe in giving things 

 away; I believe in trying to get the people to see the advantage of 

 buying them. 



The Secretary : It would be quite an expense to send out all 

 the back numbers of the reports. 



