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William C., 328 Walnut
St., Philadelphia Rheam, J. F., 45 North Walnut St., Lewiston *Rick,
John, 438 Pennsylvania Square, Reading Rife, Jacob A., Camp Hill
Rush, J. G., West Willow Smedley, Samuel L., 902 Stephen Girard
Building, Philadelphia *Sober, Col. C. K., Lewisburg Thomas, Joseph
W., Jos. W. Thomas & Sons, King of Prussia Weaver, William S.,
McCungie *Wister, John C., Wister St. & Clarkson Ave., Germantown
Wright, R. P., 235 W. 6th St., Erie
SOUTH CAROLINA Shanklin, Prof. A. G., Clemson College
TENNESSEE Marr, Thomas S., 701 Stahlmam Building, Nashville
TEXAS Burkett, J. H., Nut Specialist, State Department of Agriculture,
Clyde Trumbull, R. S., Agricultural Agent, El Paso & S. W. System,

Morenci Southern R. R. Co., El Paso
VIRGINIA Crockett, E. B., Monroe Lee, Lawrence R., Leesburg Smith,
Dr. J. Russell, Roundhill
WEST VIRGINIA Cather, L. A., 215 Murry St., Fairmont Hartzell, B.
F., Shepherdstown Cannaday, Dr. John Egerton, Charleston, Box 693
~* Life Member.~

CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
Name. This society shall be known as the NORTHERN NUT
GROWERS ASSOCIATION.
ARTICLE II
Object. Its object shall be the promotion of interest in nut-bearing
plants, their products and their culture.
ARTICLE III
Membership. Membership in the society shall be open to all persons
who desire to further nut culture, without reference to place of
residence or nationality, subject to the rules and regulations of the
committee on membership.
ARTICLE IV
Officers. There shall be a president, a vice-president and a
secretary-treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting;
and an executive committee of five persons, of which the president, two
last retiring presidents, vice-president and secretary-treasurer shall be
members. There shall be a state vice-president from each state,
dependency, or country represented in the membership of the

association, who shall be appointed by the president.
ARTICLE V
Election of Officers. A committee of five members shall be elected at
the annual meeting for the purpose of nominating officers for the
following year.
ARTICLE VI
Meetings. The place and time of the annual meeting shall be selected by
the membership in session or, in the event of no selection being made
at this time, the executive committee shall choose the place and time
for the holding of the annual convention. Such other meetings as may
seem desirable may be called by the president and executive
committee.
ARTICLE VII
Quorum. Ten members of the association shall constitute a quorum, but
must include a majority of the executive committee or two of the three
elected officers.
ARTICLE VIII
Amendments. This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of
the members present at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment
having been read at the previous annual meeting, or a copy of the
proposed amendment having been mailed by any member to each
member thirty days before the date of the annual meeting.

BY-LAWS
ARTICLE I
Committees. The association shall appoint standing committees as
follows: On membership, on finance, on programme, on press and

publication, on nomenclature, on promising seedlings, on hybrids, and
an auditing committee. The committee on membership may make
recommendations to the association as to the discipline or expulsion of
any member.
ARTICLE II
Fees. The fees shall be of two kinds, annual and life. The former shall
be two dollars, the latter twenty dollars.
ARTICLE III
Membership. All annual memberships shall begin with the first day of
the calendar quarter following the date of joining the association.
ARTICLE IV
Amendments. By-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of
members present at any annual meeting.

Northern Nut Growers' Association
EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 5 AND 6, 1917
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.
The eighth annual meeting of the Northern Nut Growers' Association
was called to order at the Hotel Davenport, Stamford, Connecticut, at
9.30 A. M., the Vice-President, Prof. W. N. Hutt, presiding in the
absence of the President, Mr. W. C. Reed.
The meeting opened without formalities with a short business session.
The report of the Secretary was read and adopted as follows:
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER.

Balance on hand date of last report $ 21.45
Receipts: Dues 255.00 Advertisements 36.00 Contributions 15.00 Sale
of reports. 26.65 Contributions for prizes 46.75 Miscellaneous .89
------- $401.74
Expenses: Printing report $158.60 Miscellaneous printing 19.00
Postage and stationery 45.91 Stenographer 40.30 Prizes 57.00
Litchfield Savings Society 65.00 ------- $385.81 ------- Balance on hand
$15.93
Total receipts were a little greater than the year before, receipts from
dues a little less. There are several new life members, ten in all now,
and the secretary has followed the course adopted some time ago of
depositing receipts from life memberships in a savings bank as a
contingent fund.
There are 138 paid up members, compared with 154 last year. Fifty
members have not paid their dues and there seems to be no other course