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Mr. Bixby : I don't think they would appreciate them either. 

 Although I have not been able to do it the most practicable thing to 

 do seems to me to make an index, say of the first ten and bind them 

 up in a booklet and then I think you could sell them. I hope to do 

 this some time. 



Mr. Tucker: What is the expense of mailing? 



Mr. Bixby: I think it is about eight cents. 



The Secretary : It would be considerable labor, but I think 

 it might be best to circularize different experiment stations, horticul- 

 tural societies, etc., and ask them if they wouldn't like to have in 

 their libraries a complete file of the reports of the Northern Nut 

 Growers Association which can be obtained for a certain small 

 number of dollars. 



The President : Professor Neilson, what would your attitude 

 be toward a communication you would receive of that nature? Sup- 

 posing that you were not the enthusiastic member that you are of 

 our association ? 



Professor Neilson : I believe it would be favorable. I be- 

 lieve that is general, and judging from the interest shown in our 

 province I believe that a good many of those horticultural societies 

 and other organizations would be glad to have the reports on file ; 

 they would be glad to purchase them at whatever figure was set upon 

 them, if it were a reasonable figure. And I think that I could interest 

 several of our agricultural representatives in having these on file in 

 their office, and possibly in subscribing, or getting the departments 

 of agriculture to subscribe to the northern nut growers journal. 

 There are several county offices along the northern shore of Lake 

 Ontario and in those counties nuts are produced. I think their 

 representatives might be induced to persuade the department to 

 subscribe to your journal. 



Professor Taylor : Mr. Chairman : I want to speak on the 

 suggestion made by Mr. Bixby. I may illustrate it in this way: we 

 people in California are, of course, in a Tittle different situation 

 from those represented by the Northern Nut Growers Association. 

 Over there west of the Rockies, or west of the Sierra Nevadas, we 

 have an entirely different situation. By virtue of our peculiar 

 climatic conditions we have already gone through our experimental 

 period and we now have nuts that we are growing on a commercial 

 basis just as they have in the South. 



For several years I was connected with the University of Cali- 

 fornia and I used to have to teach students, among other things, the 

 various nuts. That was my particular line, the various nuts, es- 

 pecially those adaptable to California, but also along with that the 

 nuts of the United States and the nuts of North America. I believe 

 that Mr. Bixby will bear me out when I say that it was during my 

 time that all of the back reports of the Northern Nut Growers As- 

 sociation were ordered. That was prior to 1919, was it not? 



Mr. Bixby: Yes. 



