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also in boxes or barrels less than carload which up to this time 
no rating had been provided for. 
Membership. 
Last year 351 members. Of this number 311 paid their dues 
and 40 dropped out, which shows a loss of 11 4-10%. 
This year 332 members. Up to this writing 312 have paid their 
dues and 20 have not paid. Should not of the 20 pay up it will 
only show a loss in membership of 6%, compared to 11 4-10% 
last year. 
FINANCIAL REPORT 
Receipts 
Balance in Treasury July 1, 1921. $16,748.61 
Dues July 1st to date . 21,185.00 
Badge Book advertising July 1st to date... 1,553.60 
Revenue from R. R. Claims Collections July 1st. 2,322.08 
Revenue from Collection Bureau July 1st to date. 1,565.49 
Revenue from Sundry Collections July 1st to date. 112.70 
Interest on Daily Balance at Des Moines. 284.93 
Total . $43,772.41 
THE BANQUET 
The Get-together Banquet of the American Association 
of Nurserymen held during the convention was a suc¬ 
cess. 
This was undoubtedly due to the energy and enterprise 
of the Baby Ramblers, Paul Fortmiller acting as chair¬ 
man, who had the arrangement and management in 
charge. Every detail was attended to in such a manner 
that it proved the tradition that bottled spirits were es¬ 
sential to make a banquet a success was all wrong. 
The food, the music, the jimcracks, the toastmaster, 
J. Edward Moon, especially the latter, succeeded in mak¬ 
ing a very lively evening. 
Speaker Paul C. Lindley said: 
When chairman, Paul Fortmiller, assigned me the sub¬ 
ject of “Codes,” he impressed upon me kindly, but firmly, 
that the wit, humor and eloquence of this occasion would 
be furnished by other speakers. My job was to give a 
short talk as to what part codes play in any business, and 
if 1 talk too long or mention vigilance, he will have one 
of the Ramblers sit on me. 
Going back 2000 years before Christ, nearly 1000 
years before Moses, we find a Babylonian King, Ham¬ 
murabi. His people had codes even at that time, and 
one of their codes was known as the Code of Hammurabi. 
They were all based on a fair, square deal, an ox for an 
ox, the loss of a bushel of corn, double the amount should 
be restored. The ancient Hebrews also had codes, the 
most familiar, of course, is the ten commandments. The 
legal profession has long had codes; the doctors, too, 
have been helped by codes. So, gentlemen, you will 
note California and Illinois nurserymen have not started 
anything new in their plan to codify their state nursery 
association. 
Codes do not compel people to have high ideals of con¬ 
duct, nor to live up to such ideals, but codes have their 
all important part to perform, in informing the mem¬ 
bers of any profession what are high ideals of conduct. 
Just an age-old truth in a practical way for the “Do’s and 
Don’ts” of business. 
I would like to offer one code for the nursery game, a 
nine word sentence from Dr. Frank Crane’s editorial on 
“Clean Business”: 
“What is there in it for the other fellow?” 
That expresses all except a word to our young nur¬ 
serymen, the Baby Ramblers : 
“Be straight as a shingle, 
Not a lazy bone in your body. 
Live clean as a hound’s tooth, 
Your word as good as your bond.” 
Paul “Code” Lindley. 
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finance himself. We will rent him the ground nominally 
and buy his saleable stock. Write, giving experience and 
kind of stock most interesting, Box 8, National Nurseryman. 
We Want Three or Four Good Practical Nurserymen 
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