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the North, and Mr. Jones' passing leaves a widespread sense of loss 

 in personal friendship as well as that of a leader in business and in 

 the development of useful knowledge and of useful trees. It is too 

 bad that such men are so few. 



Mr. Ellis, chairman of the nominating committee, presented the 

 report of that committee as follows: Your committee on nominations 

 takes great pleasure in proposing as your officers for the year ensuing: 



President— ]\Ir. Willard G. Bixby 



Vice-President — Prof. James A. Neilson 



Secretary — Mr. Henry D. Spencer 



Treasurer — Mr. Karl W. Greene 



The secretary was instructed to cast a single ballot for the above 

 named candidates and they were declared elected. 



THE CHAIR announced the personnel of the resolutions com- 

 mittee, as follows : iMr. S^Dencer, Mr. Neilson, Mr. Walker. 



Mr. John W. Hershey of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, addressed 

 the meeting on "Nut Culture", with lantern slides. 



Mr. Hershey: As far as we can find from past history nuts 

 were eaten by primitive men for thousands of years before they started 

 to eat other proteids. Worthington Smith informs us that primitive 

 man lived on nuts, and Wells says "nuts as a proteid were eaten for 

 centuries before milk and eggs". Professor Elliott said it was 

 thousands of years later before man learned to eat meat as a food. 



In Bible history the first instructions given to man regarding food 

 to eat are in Gen. 1 :29: "And God said. Behold I have given you every 

 herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every 

 tree in the which is the fruit of a tree bearing seed; to you it shall be 

 for meat." The Mosaic law, the law that has been a standard for 

 all civilized nations to base their code on, states in Dent. 20:19, that 

 in besieging a city "Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by 

 forcing an axe against them, for thou mayest eat of them and shall 

 not cut them down, for the tree of the field is man's life." In the 

 next verse it states, "Only the trees which thou knowest that they be 

 not for meat thou shalt destroy and cut." 



Picture any city, any countryside without trees, then figure what 

 we would be if we did not have any trees for utilitj' purposes, and you 

 will realize that the tree of the field is man's life. 



The first and most prominent nut we have is the English walnut. 



