APPENDIX
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.