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The President: Suppose we adopt a resolution and name Pro- 

 fessor Close to take up this matter with the proper state authorities, 

 speaking particularly of our ability to furnish seedlings from the Mt. 

 Vernon trees. 



Mh. Close: If it is tlie wish of the association, I would be glad 

 to do that. (Motion made, seconded and adopted). 



LETTER FROM F. H. WIELANDY, ST. LOUIS 



Gentlemen : 



First of all 1 congratulate you most heartily on being members of 

 an organization which means so much to the public, as consumption of 

 nuts is largely increasing and I much feaT that the present day produc- 

 tion is not in line with the demand. 



Although only n nut culturist by proxy I have manifested a deep 

 interest in this for many years, which is exemplified by the fact that 

 on my different hunting trips, in which I have indulged for over thirty- 

 five years, in the past twenty-five years I have also made it a point in 

 the fall of the year, to have with me a large pocket full of such nuts 

 as I thouglit would more easily come up and benefit some one in the 

 future. I usually carried with nic black walnuts, liickory nuts, pecans 

 and acorns, and in my rambles through the woods and along the high- 

 ways, I would plant these where 1 thought there would be less chance 

 of tlieir being molested if they developed. 



In going over the same ground quail shooting, last fall, ground 

 that I had covered more or less for a g«ood many years, I began to see 

 the fruit of my efforts, and felt repaid many fold for what 1 had ac- 

 complished. 



Unfortunately wi' are a nation of destruction, rather than of con- 

 struction, so far as our timber is concerned, and this is more noticeable 

 in fruit and nut trees than in other varieties ; although, being inter- 

 ested chiefly in these T possibly am biased. 



When we stop to consider that a country such as Norway began 

 to replant and reclaim their forests before Columbus discovered Amer- 

 ica, it strikes me that it should be a lesson for everyone in this country. 

 Consider too, if you please, that T:)efore the war Germany paid her 

 entire road taxes from nothing but the production of nut treee along 

 the public roads. We also know, although a very small country in 

 area, that it produced enough timber each year to satisfy the need for 



