helped to
make it a success.

_Fifth_--That we especially extend our thanks and appreciation to
Mr. C. A. Reed of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D.
C., and to Col. C. K. Sober, for their excellent lectures and
special work in behalf of this association at this meeting.

_Sixth_--That we express our most sincere thanks and appreciation
to J. F. Wilkinson, for his courteous treatment and entertainment
of this association at his home.

_Seventh_--Be it further _resolved_, that we especially thank each
and every individual member of this association, for their
attendance at this meeting, and for their earnest efforts and
interest in behalf of the same, in helping to make this meeting a
success in every way, and making it the most enthusiastic meeting
that has ever been held by this association, and we thank any and
all members for any special work or research that has been carried
on by said member in behalf of this association, as disclosed by
this meeting.

_Eighth--Resolved_, That we extend to Mr. W. C. Reed our sincere
thanks for his kind invitation to the members of the association to
be his guests at his home in Vincennes, Indiana, on Saturday,
August 22d, 1914.

Signed. W. O. POTTER,
H. R. WEBER,
J. RUSSELL SMITH.

THE PRESIDENT: If there are no objections, the report of the committee
on resolutions will be adopted. It is so ordered. The next thing on the
program will be the lecture and lantern slides by Mr. C. A. Reed.

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Meeting called to order at Enterprise, on Friday, August 21, at 10:30 A.
M.

THE PRESIDENT: I want the records to show that this meeting convened in
Enterprise, Luce Township, Spencer County, Indiana, where the members of
the Northern Nut Growers Association visited and studied the native Ohio
River pecan trees, and I want to hear the opinions of the different
visitors. The state entomologist, Mr. Baldwin, will please express
himself upon the native pecan trees on the Ohio River.

MR. BALDWIN: My remarks will be so brief it will not be necessary for me
to go forward. I don't know that it is necessary for me to mention the
fact that I have never lived in and very seldom visited, localities
where pecans grow in this state and cannot, therefore, express an
authoritative opinion as to the merits and demer