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REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE 

 Bfi WUlard G. Bixby 



Mk. Biabv: The finance committee asks the association to in- 

 struct the secretary in the printing of the next report to endca\()r to 

 reduce tlie size to one-half of the present report. 



(Adopted by the convention). 



Mr. Bi.xbv: I move as an amendment to Article Two of the By- 

 Laws, that annual membership be $3, or $5 including a year's sub- 

 scription to tlie Journal. Contributing members to pay -tlO. this in- 

 cluding a year's subscription to the Journal. 



(Motion seconded and adopted by the convention, and the com- 

 mittee on Incorporation discharged with the thanks of the association). 



Mr. I.ittlepage: I have nearly overlooked the fact that the or- 

 ganization must now have a corporate seal, with an appropriate in- 

 scription. An apropriate inscription would be "The Northern Nut 

 Growers' Association, Incorporated." All sucli seals generally carry 

 some appropriate design, and there are various ones to be had. I 

 move that a committee of three be appointed to determine upon the 

 design of this seal, and then later, if the chairman of the conunittee 

 will send the des1<>-n to mi-. I will l^-nf the seal made and send it to 

 the association. 



(Motion seconded and adopted, and Dr. Deming. Mr. Bixby. and 

 Dr. Morris .ipjjointed as committee by the president). 



After consider.ible discussion New York City was selected as the 

 place for the next convention and the dates Wednesday. Thursday and 

 Friday, September 3rd. ttli and ")tli. J921-. 



A vote of thanks to the president. Mr. Janus S. McGlennon, was 

 .adopted. The secretary w.is .ilso instnieted to write to Mrs. Hutt 

 expressing the thanks of the coiiM-ntion for her .address. 



Dr. Oswald Schreiner of the Bureau of Plant Industry, I'. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture was then introductd and s|)oke as follows: 



In the successful growing of pecan trees, the proper care of the 

 orchard is of enormous importance. (To illustrate this point, slides 

 were shown of a good orchard and a poor orchard on a rather thin 

 soil in the Coastal Plain Region. In the good orchard, the trees had 

 lieen well cared for. the soil fertilized by the growing of legumes and 

 cover crops plowed under; in the poor orchard, the trees had been 



