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REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



at the 



XIXETEEXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



of the 



NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



(Incorporated) 



Held at the 



KING EDWARD HOTEL 



TORONTO, ONTARIO 



September 10, 11 and 12, 1928 



Mr. Willard G. Bixby, Baldwin, N. Y., the President of the 

 Association, occupied the chair. 



He called the convention to order at 1 1 o'clock Monday, September 

 10th. The President then delivered his official address. 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



This is our 19th meeting. It is also the first meeting ever held 

 outside the boundaries of the L^'nited States and it gives me great 

 pleasure,, as I am sure it does all of our members, to meet in this im- 

 portant city of the Dominion of Canada and talk over the problems 

 of nut growing in the northern part of the American continent. 



The past year has been one of achievement. Nut growing has 

 steadily progressed, our few commercial nut orchards have been es- 

 tablished more firmly than ever, new ones are being planted and 

 those planted a short time ago are getting nearer the time when they 

 will bear nuts in commercial quantities. One established in the past 

 four or five years has had the fortune, or misfortune, to have oil dis- 



