Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting | Page 4

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
SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 1 AND 2, 1915
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
The sixth annual convention of the Northern Nut Growers Association
was called to order in the convention hall of Powers Hotel, Rochester,
New York, on Wednesday, September 1, at 10:15 A.M., the president,
Dr. J. Russell Smith, presiding, and thirty-two people being assembled.
THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Northern
Nut Growers Association, the meeting will please come to order.
With an organization of this sort, the main purpose of the meeting is the
dissemination of information, but it is necessary that certain business
shall be conducted to keep the organization going. Some business is dry;
usually the reports of our secretary-treasurer are not, and the first order
of business, I think, should be to hear from our secretary-treasurer.
MR. LITTLEPAGE: I should be glad to have the floor for a moment,
Mr. President. In the Congressional Library at Washington City are
many very beautiful and attractive inscriptions and quotations, one of
which has always appealed to me as a lawyer, and I have repeated it
many times:

"Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the
harmony of the world."
Mr. President, I have noted very many times that the voice of the law is
sometimes silent. It speaks only through those in authority and there
should always be some emblem of authority. I therefore took the liberty,
Mr. President, of having made for you a gavel from the wood of an
Indiana pecan tree, where as a youth I lived and learned of this most
delicious of all the nuts, and I take pleasure in presenting it to you, and
if anyone doubts the hardiness or hardness of the Indiana pecan, I
authorize you to demonstrate both.
I am presenting you duplicate gavels, Mr. President, one of which I
desire to have you turn over to your successor in office as an official
emblem of his authority, to be used at future meetings; the other I am
presenting to you as a personal tribute for your most excellent work in
behalf of northern nut culture. This gavel I shall ask you to place
among the trophies in your beautiful mountain home, where the birds
sing sweetly, the sun shines brightly, and the breezes murmur softly;
and where the days are made to rest and the nights are made to sleep.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Littlepage, not being prepared for this, and not
being naturally eloquent, I am unable to make a speech. However, as a
part of the way out of the difficulty, I accept this one officially with
great pleasure, and personally accept the other with deep gratitude, and
desire to express the appreciation of the meeting.
The pecan is calling the walnut meeting to order. Last year we went to
see the pecan; this year we come to see the walnut, which, has done
more than any other nut in the East.
We will now listen to the report of our secretary-treasurer.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER
Balance on hand, date of last report $7.23

Receipts: Dues $379.30 Advertisements 42.00 Contributions 42.50 Sale
of report 22.40 Contributions for prizes 40.00 Miscellaneous 1.05
------- $534.48 Expenses: Printing report $233.76 Miscellaneous
printing 51.80 Postage and stationery 41.09 Stenographer 2.00 Express,
freight, carting 3.74 Prizes 10.00 Check J.R.S. expenses, circulars
37.30 Bills receivable 10.00 Miscellaneous 4.55 ------- $394.24 -------
Balance on hand $140.24
This is the best financial report that the treasurer has ever been able to
transmit, and this is chiefly due to the efforts of our president who,
during the year, has sent out numerous notices of, and articles about,
our Association, its purposes, and the desirability of finding and