Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting | Page 8

| | 50.00| 50.00|
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|$272.21|$1,185.62|$1,457.83|$1,457.83 Deficit October 1, 1921: | | | |
Balance Special Hickory prize |$ 25.00| | | Life Membership | 45.00| | |
Deficit for regular expenses[A] | 246.07| | | 176.07 |_____| | |_______
Net deficit | | | | 1,709.16
EXPENDITURES
American Nut Journal, their portion | | | | of joint subscriptions |$
64.00|$1 99.65|$ 263.65| 1920 Convention | 85.00| | 85.00| Printing
Bulletin No. 5 | | 62.50| 62.50| Stationery, Printing & Supplies | 50.55|
91.01| 141.56| Postage, Express, etc. | 36.60| 75.78| 112.38| Prizes
1919 Nut Contest | 128.00| | 128.00| Advertising 1920 Nut Contest |
52.08| | 52.08| Printing Report 10th Meeting | 69.09| 400.05| 469.14|
Printing Report 11th Meeting | | 341.85| 341.85| Funds received for

Transmission to | | | | other parties | | 3.00| 3.00| Salary Secretary |
50.00| | 50.00| |_____|_______|_______|_______
|$535.32|$1,173.84|$1,709.16|$1,709.16
Forty-seven new members have joined the Association since the last
report, making 523 since organization, of which we have 221, making
302 who have resigned or otherwise dropped out. It will be noticed that
the number of members received last year, 47, is less than the number
reported a year ago, 66. This in the judgment of the Treasurer is
entirely due to the less amount of energy expended for a smaller
proportion of members have dropped out than a year ago. While the
gaining of members is not particularly easy it can be done and the
number gained to quite an extent is in proportion to the energy put on
it.
The finances of the Association this year are in a more troublesome
situation than any year since the undersigned had charge. Two reports
each at double normal cost each is quite enough to cause it. An
inspection of the Treasurer's accounts have made it evident that during
no year in the history of the Association have the dues received been
equal to the cost of carrying on the Association. Each year some
members interested have contributed in addition to paying dues.
During the year past these sums have been considerable. It is believed
that with only one report a year there will be only normal difficulty in
handling the finances of the Association. The orderly conduct of the
finances of the Association makes it very desirable that normal receipts
of dues take care of normal expenditures with a little margin for
contingencies. The matter of classes of membership would seemingly
help on this. The treasurer would not recommend changing the annual
membership from its present figures, $2.00, but would suggest that this
meeting consider making a class of contributing members at $5.00 per
year including the American Nut Journal. This would give the
Association double the income from each such member that it now gets
for most members accept the combination offer of membership in the
Association and subscription to the American Nut Journal at $3.25 for
both which nets the Association $1.75 per year.

Respectfully submitted, Sept. 30, 1921. WILLARD G. BIXBY.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Bixby is certainly a first class treasurer. He
makes a recommendation in his report. Do you desire to act upon it at
this time? I refer to his recommendation relative to a new class of
membership. It is a first class suggestion and a motion covering it
would be in order.
THE SECRETARY: I move that a committee of three be appointed by
the president to consider the recommendation of the treasurer relative
to different classes of membership and to report at this meeting.
MR. A. C. POMEROY: I second the motion.
The motion was carried.
THE PRESIDENT: I will appoint as that committee the treasurer, Mr.
Bixby, the secretary, Dr. Deming, and Mr. R. T. Olcott.
Mr. Reed, the chairman of the committee on road-side planting, is in
California, and unable to be with us at this session. If a report is to
come from that committee it must necessarily come from some other
member, so we will defer action on that particular report at this time.
We also regret the absence of Dr. Morris the first president of the
association. He is unable to be with us at this meeting but he has
forwarded a paper and unless there are objections we will receive it at
this time and have it read by the secretary.
NUT TREES FOR PUBLIC PLACES
DR. ROBERT T. MORRIS, NEW YORK
The question of the planting of nut trees along highways and in parks
and other public grounds falls into classification under two separate
and distinct heads. First, the abstract proposition of planting useful
trees upon ground which is not usefully occupied otherwise. Second,
the reaction of human nature to the different phases of the proposition.

The latter part is the larger part of the question, otherwise the work
would