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 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



It becomes both a duty and a pleasure to report to you at this 

 time some of the many and varied activities of the secretary's office 

 during the past year, September 1925-1926. 



These include (1) The handling of considerable correspondence; 

 (2) working up association publicity such as results from speaking 

 engagements, newspaper and magazine activities and the holding of 

 short courses in nut growing at agricultural colleges; (3) a survey 

 of experimental projects under way by the state experiment stations; 

 (4) the editing of the annual report and, (5) the making of arrange- 

 ments for the annual meeting. 



(1) Taking up in detail the duties of the secretary this past year, 

 I would mention briefly the matter of correspondence. A constantly 

 increasing number of letters of inquiry coming from Oregon to Maine 

 and Texas to Pennsylvania has been handled the past year. I am 

 especially grateful to President Deming and ex-Secretary Reed for 

 their help in handling inquiries when I needed outside assistance. A 

 number of new members were obtained through correspondence. 



(2) Publicity. Most of my efforts along this line were at farmers' 

 institute talks, addresses at state horticultural society meetings, before 

 women's clubs and Rotary clubs and academies of science. These 

 talks were given in the states of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Michigan. 

 I am also working with the Illinois Nurserymen's Association in con- 

 nection with the offering for sale of the better varieties of nuts. 

 Some of the press articles published include informational material 

 in the Chicago Tribune, American Fruit Grower, Rural New Yorker 

 and the American Nut Journal. 



One of the most important activities of the year from the secre- 

 tary's office was, I believe, a speaking engagement on the Farmer's 

 Week program at the University of Illinois and the holding of short 

 courses in nut growing during Farmer's Week at the University of 

 Missouri and the Iowa State College of Agriculture in January, 1926. 

 It was only through the cordial co-operation of Prof. T. J. Talbert, 

 head of the Department of Horticulture at Missouri, and Prof. B. S. 

 Pickett and Prof. G. B. McDonald, head of the Department of Horti- 



