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Is there anything else that should
come up at the morning session? Mr. Secretary, do you know of
anything else?
MR. BIXBY: I would really like to see something definite on this line
of increasing the membership. I can think of several things that will
help; but to get something that is going to have action right away is not
so clear. Recently I have had a good many people come down to my
place to look at the small orchard I have there. I aim to have varieties of
every nut tree that is being propagated, and I think if I keep at it a few
years longer I will pretty nearly have them; and in most cases, when
people have come down that way, they have become members
afterwards. Two or three of them have. I am only twenty miles from
New York City, and it is not difficult, if I find someone interested, to
invite them down to look over the trees growing there, and usually
when they come they join afterwards.
MR. OLCOTT: Pardon me for speaking again, but I am on the
membership committee and I am anxious to draw out anything that
may be of use. Why could not some plan be devised by the secretary or
by this committee and sent out tentatively in the way of suggestion and
perhaps some other suggestions will be made to add to it. Perhaps also
in addition to this local community plan that I suggested, there might
be formed, all of it within the Northern Association, a subsidiary
thereto--the walnut society--people particularly interested in the walnut,

but do not care for the hickory, pecan or any other nut. You will find
people particularly interested in the black walnut, some in the Persian
walnut, some in the filbert--form a filbert society as the American Nut
Journal has suggested, and let all the enthusiasts of the filbert get
together, and if they are scattered, let them keep together by
correspondence and increased activity in that way. The same for the
butternut. Get at it from that way.
MR. KETCHUM: Another thing to further our society here today, we
can make those small organizations auxiliary thereto.
DR. MORRIS: Any one who is interested in one nut becomes
interested in all eventually.
MR. BIXBY: I received more inquiries regarding the Persian walnut
and the pecan than any other nuts--probably more regarding the Persian
walnut. Nearly everybody who writes wants to grow Persian walnuts;
and in the great majority of instances, I have to try to switch them onto
black walnuts with the suggestion that they plant a few Persian walnuts
because we have no experimental data of the Persian walnut succeeding
in their section. In some instances they will turn to the black walnuts; in
other instances I hear nothing further from them. The Persian walnut is
the most popular with people who have not tried to grow any nuts. Mr.
Jones perhaps can tell us how his inquiries run. Don't they run very
largely for Persian walnuts?
MR. JONES: Yes, they do. I was thinking possibly you could make a
combination--take, for instance, the membership, the nut journal, and
some nut trees. The nurserymen could make considerable concession.
DR. MORRIS: That combination is right well.
MR. JONES: You could give a coupon good for so much on an order
for trees or something of that sort.
MR. BIXBY: That suggestion was made and I referred it to the
executive committee. I have not had any reply.

PRESIDENT REED: I didn't have time to answer the communication
and get it back to you before I came here; so I thought we would decide
on that here. If there is nothing further to come up this morning, a
motion to adjourn will be in order until the afternoon session.
MR. BIXBY: I might repeat that at the request of Dr. Kellogg, in order
to get the papers which he had been particularly requested to have
given so that people could hear them, Dr. Morris and Prof. Cajori who
were scheduled this afternoon, will come this evening, and Mr.
Hoover's and Mr. Graves' papers, which were scheduled for this
evening, will have to come this afternoon. Neither of the writers are
present, but the papers are here. Mr. Graves expected to be here but I
had a telegram yesterday that he could not get away. I have the paper,
though and the photographs.
MR. MCGLENNON: Has there been provision made for a paper on
filberts by Mr. Vollertsen? If not, I should like to have it.
MR. BIXBY: Certainly, there can be. It ought to come in this afternoon.
I wrote Mr. Vollertsen asking if he could deliver it.
MR. MCGLENNON: He has the paper prepared, and I want to hear it. I
have