APPENDIX
Reading edition
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND TREASURER
Bal. on hand, date of last report $ 48.73
Annual dues and life membership 178.00
Advertisements in Annual Report 25.00
Sale of report 18.00
Dr. Crocker, paid for list of names 2.00
Prof. Collins, paid for reprints 8.00
Total receipts $279.73
Expenses:
Expenses of Prof. Collins $ 20.85
Printing report and reprints 195.16
Other printing 38.00
Postage 35.75
Typewriting 16.24
Stationery 4.50
Miscellaneous 14.30
Total expenses $324.80
Bill receivable ; 1.00
Bill payable 22.00
$346.80 $280.73
Deficit $66.07
Our first annual report, embodying the transactions at the first and second annual meetings, was issued in May, and copies were sent to all members, to the principal libraries of the country, to officials of the Agricultural Department at Washington, and to some state agricultural officials, to several agricultural and other periodicals for notice and review, and to various persons especially interested. Eighteen copies have been sold.
About 1,000 copies of each of the two circulars, "Why Nut Culture is Important" and "The Northern Nut Growers Association and Why You Should Join It", have been sent to members and correspondents, and also revised circulars on the literature of nut growing and on seedsmen and nurserymen.
An illustrated article about nut growing and the association appeared in the Literary Digest and many agricultural and other periodicals have had notices of our association and our meeting.
Besides the regular notices sent to members and papers, different notices and brief statements about nut growing, were sent weekly for five weeks before the meeting to 80 different newspapers published in the country about Lancaster in the hope of getting a good local attendance. The Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission assisted in this publicity campaign by sending postal card notices to about a hundred persons in the eastern part of Pennsylvania who were known to have from a few to thousands of cultivated chestnut trees.
The secretary's correspondence has increased so as to become, if it were not for enthusiasm, burdensome. Often several inquiries a day are received and they come from all parts of the United States and Canada.
The following figures are brought up to date of going to press.
Our membership has nearly doubled since the last report was issued, increasing from 60 to 113. We have lost 1 member by death and 2 by resignation. Our present membership standing at 110.
We have members in 27 states, the District of Columbia, Panama, and Canada. New York heads the list with 37 members and Pennsylvania comes next with 12.