APPENDIX
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER
| Receipts: | ||
| Dues | $200.00 | |
| Gift | 200.00 | |
| Sale of report | 10.00 | |
| Advertisement | 15.00 | |
| Miscellaneous | 7.15 | |
| ——— | ||
| $432.15 | ||
| Expenses: | ||
| Deficit | $17.54 | |
| Reporting convention | 47.13 | |
| Printing | 355.74 | |
| Postage | 66.34 | |
| Typewriting | 19.14 | |
| Advertising | 6.79 | |
| Expense of secretary to Albany | 10.05 | |
| Expense of secretary to New York | 2.75 | |
| Miscellaneous | 11.72 | |
| ——— | ||
| $537.20 | ||
| Deficit | $105.05 |
Through the generosity of one of our members the secretary was enabled to issue the annual report, to have other printing done, and to represent the Association at Albany at the conference on the hickory bark borer called by the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of New York.
It is not likely that this gift will be repeated and it will be a great misfortune if the means for publishing the annual report are not found, as well as for taking up the present deficit of over a hundred dollars.
Of course our membership is increasing rapidly and, in the years to come, we should have members enough to pay our annual expenses, including the publishing of the report. The secretary would like also to have enough to issue reprints or bulletins from time to time.
The secretary asks for instructions in the face of this difficulty and would suggest the appointment of a finance committee, not to include the secretary, and to be composed of persons who will work.
There might be a similar hard-working committee on programme. The secretary is willing to be the clearing house for the Association, but would like to have something to clear besides the cloudy results of his own labors.
The secretary has a list of over six hundred names of persons interested in nut culture, which he thinks should be circularized from time to time with reprints, or bulletins, setting forth the importance of, and the advances in, the art of nut culture.