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RESOLVED: That it is the sense of the Northern Xut Grow- 

 ers' Association, in fifteenth annual convention in New York City this 

 fourth day of September, 1924, that the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture be asked to take up systematically the work of discovery 

 and investigation of promising native nuts in the northern states 

 «nd of testing selected specimens at government stations in co- 

 operation with the authorities of the state experiment stations : such 

 discovery to be brought about by enlisting the aid of boy scouts, 

 school children and others, in connection with the activities of county 

 farm agents, inspectors and other attaches of the department. 



The President: Prof. MacDaniels, of Cornell University will 

 now address us. 



L. II. MacDanieh, Professor of Pomology, Cornell University 



It gives me great pleasure to bring you greetings from the Agri- 

 cultural College at Cornell University and to express my appreciation 

 for your invitation to address this convention concerning Avhat the 

 college is doing along the line of nut growing. I have a very real 

 interest in nut growing and in this association. I like to think of it 

 IS comparable with the American Pomological Society when it started 

 more than one hundred years ago. All of you men who are spend- 

 ing vour time and energy in finding new facts regarding the propa- 

 gation uul culture of nut trees are doing pioneer work, and your 

 names will go down in the history of nut growing in the same way as 

 those of Wilder, Downing, and Prince have come to us linked with the 

 early development of fruit growing in the United States. I feel con- 

 fident that the work of the association will stand the test of time. 



Interest in nut growing at Cornell, as you probably know, was 

 started by John Craig who died about a dozen years ago. He was 

 greatly interested in northern nut growing and also in southern 

 pecans. As a result of his work we are still receiving inquiries 

 about southern pecans addressed to Professor Craig. While at Cornell 

 he established a course of study in nut growing which was a part of 

 the regular curriculum. At the time, however, the actual known 

 facts about the growth of nuts in the northern states were so few, and 

 reliable information so scarce, that after Professor Craig's death, 

 when there was a general consolidation of courses in the depart- 

 ment, nut growing was combined with another course in economic 

 fruits. Since that time, as our knowledge of nut growing has in- 

 creased, more and more attention has been given to the subject. Our 

 aim is, in fact, to give all of the up-to-date information that we 



