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REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



at the 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



of the 



NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



(Incorporated) 



September 14, 15, and 16, 1926 



Held in the 



STEVENS HOUSE 



LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 



Chairman — President W. C. Deming 



FIRST DAY— MORNING SESSION 



The President: With this historic gavel, made from an Indiana 

 pecan tree and presented to the association by Mr. Littlepage, I now 

 call together the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Northern 

 Nut Growers' Association. 



The program has been so arranged that the president's address 

 is first on the program. 



I ask your patience in a consideration of the past, present and 

 future of this association and of the past, present and future of nut 

 growing in the northeastern United States. This seems to be a good 

 point from which to take a perspective forward and backward. 



Sometime before 1910 Dr. Robert T. Morris of New York City, 



