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about it.
MR. OLCOTT: I don't know how many there are now; but I think there
were 150 or 200 at the time of the Stamford meeting. I think there were
that many enrolled. I presume that two-thirds of those
renewed--probably something over 100 members.
PRESIDENT REED: There were 138 paid members.
DR. MORRIS: Dr. Kellogg says there may be a thousand men in the
audience this evening, and if there are we ought to do some propaganda
work.
PRESIDENT REED: I don't remember who the membership committee
was. Mr. Weber was chairman, I believe, and he is not here. Olcott is
next on the committee.
MR. OLCOTT: I didn't know I was on that committee.
PRESIDENT REED: Fagan was on that committee, Potter, Deming,
Williams, J. Russell Smith. I guess you are the only member of the
committee who is here. We are ready for the report of the secretary and
treasurer, Mr. Bixby.

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER SEPT. 1, 1917-NOV.
30, 1919
Key: A: Sep. 1. '17 to Dec. 31, '17 B: Jan. 1, '18 to May 20, '18 C: May
21, '18 to Dec. 31, '18 D: Jan. 1, '19 to Nov. 30, '19
RECEIPTS
A B C D Total Balance
Balance on hand date of last report, August 31, 1917. $ 15.93 Received
from annual members including joint subscriptions to American Nut
Journal $69.50 $123.54 $ 73.75 $247.35 $514.14 Received in payment
of life membership 20.00 25.00 45.00 Sale of reports, brochures and
leaflets 2.25 4.00 9.95 4.85 21.05 Advertising in report of Stamford
meetings 8th, 1917 21.00 21.00 Sales of sundry material. 1.58 1.58
Contributions for 1917 Contest 25.00 125.00 150.00 Contribution for
special hickory prizes 25.00 25.00 ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
------- $112.75 $145.12 $108.70 $427.20 $793.77 $793.77 -------
$809.70
EXPENDITURES
American Nut Journal, their portion of joint subscriptions $ 6.75 $
14.00 $ 59.00 $ 79.75 Stationary, printing and Supplies .69 44.05 49.50
94.24 Postage, Express, etc. 4.82 13.95 9.66 9.24 37.67 Prizes 1917
Nut Contest 15.00 15.00 Prize 1918 Nut Contest 107.00 107.00
Advertising 1917 Nut Contest $10.21; expenses 1917 contest $2.90
13.11 13.11 Advertising 1918 Nut Contest 51.50 51.50 Stamford
Meeting 1917 expenses 65.55 65.55 Printing Report of Stamford
Meeting 162.00 162.00 Errors in remittance corrected 3.85 3.50 7.35
Litchfield Savings Bank. Life membership of John Rick Balance on
hand Dec. 1, 1919. 20.00 20.00 ------ ------ ------- ------- ------- -------
$97.81 $30.91 $244.71 $279.74 $653.17 $653.17
Balance on hand Dec. 1, 1919. Special hickory prize 25.00 Life

membership Lee W. Jaques 25.00 For regular expenses. 106.53
------- $809.70
I have carefully been over the above statement and found it to be
correct. C. A. REED, for Auditing Committee.
The above are records of receipts and expenditures for two years and
three months and are approximately double those noted in the report of
of the Stamford meeting. The activities of the Association were
necessarily at a low ebb in war time, and, although a joint meeting with
the National Association was planned for the fall of 1918, it was never
held.
The list of members printed in this report numbers 128 while that in the
last one shows 166, apparently a very large decrease. The last report
showed 138 paid up members. Following the methods of Secretary
Deming, members who have not responded to notices and letters have
been dropped. In no case has a member been dropped until a letter with
return postage has been sent. In a number of instances members thus
written to have resigned giving various reasons, the most common of
which are change of occupation or residence, which prevented their
doing anything in the line of nut growing or lack of success in their
attempts to grow nuts. Two members have died since the last meeting,
Mr. Wendell P. Williams and Mr. Mahlon Hutchinson; the former was
in the U. S. Service at the time of his death. 57 new members have been
added to our rolls since 1917 making a total of 410 joining since
organization of whom we now have 128, 282 having dropped out. Of
the 52 who have joined since last meeting, 21 joined before Oct. 1,
1919 the date of the proposed meeting in Albany, Ga., which was never
held, and 31 since that date.
The holding of members is a difficult problem and one that has not
been worked out at all satisfactorily. Most members join in the hope of
thereby learning how to successfully grow nut trees. They find out that
so much is still experimental that most do not remain. This is bound to
continue till we can show grafted or budded nut trees bearing
satisfactory crops, and, until that time, there seems nothing to do but to

keep on going after new members and