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.