Profit on Bus Trip at Washington 15.00 Memberships @ $3.50 old rate. No Nut News 21 @ $3.50 73.50 Memberships @ $4.00 new rate. No Nut News 3 @ $4.00 12.00 Memberships @ $4.50--$3.50 to Assn. $1.00 to Nut News 2 @ $4.50 9.00 Memberships @ $5.00--$4.00 to Assn. $1.00 to Nut News 43 @ $5.00 215.00 Memberships @ $5.00 without Nut News 3 @ $5.00 15.00 Membership @ $10.00--Mr. Ellis 10.00 Membership @ $10.00 with Nut News--Mr. Neilson 10.00 Miscellaneous Receipts 9.00 _______ Total Receipts $396.65 $396.65 DISBURSEMENTS Refund to D. C. Snyder $ 2.00 Programs Washington Convention 25.00 Paid National Nut News 38.00 Membership American Horticultural Society 3.00 C. A. Reed. Expense Washington Convention 6.70 Total $ 74.70 $ 74.70 Balance to account for $321.95 Litchfield Savings Society $ 15.94 Cash on hand or in bank 306.01 _______ Total $321.95 $321.95 J. F. Jones' Experimental Work in Hybridizing Filberts and Hazels _By_ MILDRED JONES _Lancaster, Pennsylvania_ The first crosses of the hybrid filberts were made in the year 1919. The small plants when taken from the nursery row were set 5 x 8 feet with the thought in mind of taking out every other bush in the rows when they began to crowd, and in case they were of value they could be transplanted to a permanent place. It was not thought that many of the plants would bear superior nuts promising enough to keep longer than to observe the type of nuts the bushes bore. The first lot of plants, which were mostly of the Barcelona cross, bore in the fall of 1924.