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that the plants have done finely, have been entirely satisfactory in 

 that respect. There has been a complaint that they have not borne ; 

 there are some instances of extreme pleasure expressed over the 

 way they have borne. My own idea is, and I blieve it is that of Mr. 

 Vollertsen also, that they have not had quite time enough yet, since 

 the spring of 1919. 



Mr. Bixby : That is not time enough. 



The President: Furthermore, Mr. Hall, in offering them — 

 against our advice as we endeavored to persuade him to ofifer them 

 as improved European filberts, assorted varieties — thought that the 

 people would be attracted to those unpronounceable names that we 

 have them imder. Maybe they were. He listed some six or eight 

 varieties, I think, and those varieties were of our larger fruited 

 kinds. We frankly confess that those varieties will not bear as 

 abundantly as the smaller fruited varieties — not that they are very 

 small they are quite a good sized nut. I believe if Mr. Hall had 

 made a freer distribution of the so-called smaller fruited varieties 

 that there might have been an even more favorable report in con- 

 nection with fruiting. Another year or so will give us more definite 

 information. 



We have now cleaned up our program pretty well. You are 

 going to find Doctor Kellogg's paper in the report, together with 

 the secretary's. We have the papers here. That completes the 

 program up to the present time with the exception of Senator Penny 

 and Mr. Linton. We supposed Mr. Linton would be here. I had 

 telephoned this morning as Mr. Penny promised to send a paper but 

 he hasn't been able to do so. Those are the only two papers of the 

 program that we haven't got. 



There are two more things we have to take care of; one is the 

 election of officers, and the other is the selection of a place for the 

 next convention. I call for the report of the nominating committee. 



Mr. Weber : The report of the nominating committee is as 

 follows : 



President: — James S. McGlennon. 

 Vice President: — J. F. Jones. 

 Secretary: — William C. Deming. 

 Treasurer : — Willard G. Bixby. 



(Signed) 



ROBERT T. MORRIS, 

 G. H. CORSAN, 

 HARRY R. WEBER, 



Nominating Committee. 



