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PROCEEDINGS 



AT THE 



FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE 

 NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



New National Museum. Washington. D. C. 

 Septemer 2G-27-28, 1923. 



(In making up this re]>ort the transcript of the stenographer's 

 full report has been unsparingly cut. in accordance with the vote of 

 the convention. Copies of the full rejxu-t are in the jwssession of the 

 secretary.) 



The Con\entiou was calKd to order at 2 p. ni., Se])t. 2(5. 1923, in 

 the New National Museum. 



In his opening address the pi-«sident spoke of the need for in- 

 creased membership and improved financial condition. He also recom- 

 niiended' a. return to tlie old method of eombininff the secretary and 

 treasurer in one office aiul that the secretary-treasurer should have a 

 fair salary, suitable quarters, and ade(juate help. He spoke of his 

 own efforts to increase the usefulness of the association and expressed 

 his fears that they had amounted to very little. He quoted the state- 

 ment of the editor of the American Nut Journal that what people 

 want to know is whether they can make any money by the cultivation 

 of init trees. That statement led to a cam,paign to try to locate in 

 the territory of the association groups of niit trees in profitable bear- 

 ing. He felt saitisfied that there arc luniurous ])aying nut orchards, 

 aiul lie recommended a continuance of the campaign for hx»ating such 

 orchards. 



The president then went on to instance the experience of Mr. 

 Frederick G. Brown of Salisbury, ^lass., at whose place, about two 

 miles from the ocean, there are two Persian walnut trees, 12 to 15 

 years old, one of them about a foot in diameter and twenty feet high, 

 that have borne for two years. Peach trees will not live at this place. 



