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addrt-ss in 1922, I may say that I have circularized the whole county 

 and the college stations; I have sent about 125 circular letters to the 

 horticultural society and to its officers, high school inspectors, and to 

 anyone I thought might be glad to get the information. I wanted 

 to carry this further but could not. I wanted to send letters to every 

 school teacher in the Province of Ontario and ask them to bring the 

 matter to the attention of the boys and 'girls, and to offer them a sub- 

 stantial prize for the location of the best tree in their locality. I will 

 say, however, that I got a great deal of encouragement from the horti- 

 cultural society, the public school and the high schools. 



The Secretary: I will read again a sentence from Mr. Howard 

 Spence's letter: 



"The Minister of Agriculture has agreed to instruct all their 

 inspectors over the country to make a collection of all walnuts of 

 merit and to forward them to me for classification and identification 

 of varieties which may be worth perpetuating." 



If we could do something of that kind in the United States to enlist 

 the extension agents, we should get some valuable information. 



Mh. Olcott: I think that a very important thing would be to 

 send that message not only to the state experiment stations, but 

 also to the government authorities. Why should not the Department 

 of Agriculture make a systematic survey of tliat kind ? Why should it 

 be left to the small societies like this one, when the federal Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture is so thoroughly equipped to get this ? The de- 

 partment at Washington has expressed interest; I wonder if it would 

 not be appropriate for this association to take some formal action, 

 suggesting federal government action in that matter, in co-operation 

 with the extension service. Boy Scouts, etc. 



The President: Will you put that in a resolution.^ 



^Ir. Olcott: I submit the following resolution: 



WHEREAS. The investigational and experimental work of the 

 Northern Nut Growers' Association during the last fourteen years 

 has been signally successful in improving native nuts of the north- 

 ern United States, based upon discovery and jDropagation of super- 

 ior specimens ; and 



WHEREAS, This work could be greatly extended with the facili- 

 ties at the command of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 as compared with the efforts of the small number of members of 

 this association ; therefore be it 



