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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS

READ BY PROFESSOR SMITH

RESOLVED:

1. That we extend our thanks to the Mayor and citizens of Lancaster for
the welcome and entertainment they have afforded us while here and for
the excellent auditorium they have placed at our disposal.

2. That we extend our thanks to Messrs. Rush and Jones and their
entertainment committee.

3. That we extend our thanks to the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight
Commission for the attendance of their representatives. We note with
keen interest their expressions of hope for the control of this
cyclopean menace.

4. That we express our deep appreciation of the great interest and
valuable services of Dr. Morris, the retiring President, and Dr. Deming,
the Secretary and Treasurer, two officers to whose untiring efforts this
Association is largely due.

5. That we express the thanks of the Association to those members and
others who have enriched this meeting by their interesting exhibits.

6. That the following letter be sent from this Association to the,--

Secretary of Agriculture,
Persons in authority in the United States Bureau of Plant Industry,
The Presidents of Agricultural Colleges,
The Directors of Agricultural Experiment Stations,
And leading Teachers in Agriculture Colleges.

The Northern Nut Growers' Association, by resolution passed at its third
annual meeting, held at Lancaster, Pa., in December 1912, calls your
attention to the importance of, and need for, the breeding of new types
of crop yielding trees. We now have the possibility of a new, but as yet
little developed, agriculture which may (A) nearly double our food
supply and also (B) serve as the greatest factor in the conservation of
our resources.

(A) Our agriculture at the present time depends chiefly upon the grains
which were improved by selection in pre-historic times, because they
were annuals and quick yielders. The heavy yielding plants, the engines
of nature, are the trees, which have in most cases remained unimproved
and largely unused until the present time because of the slowness of
their generations and the absence of knowledge concerning plant
breeding.

We now know something about plant breeding, and its possibilities as
applied to the crop yielding trees seem to be enormous. They certainly
warrant immediate and widespread effort at plant breeding. A member of
this Association has shown that the chinquapi