American Nut Journal, subscriptions $ 101.75 Hotel Pennsylvania, N. Y., rent for projector 30.00 Reporting New York meeting 122.18 Mimeographing 11.45 Stenographer, Secretary's office 42.85 Printing, Secretary's office 51.38 Expenses, Secretary's office 24.78 Printing, Treasurer's office, two years 98.00 Printing Annual Report 428.88 H. D. Spencer, expenses to New York meeting 122.48 Stamps 3.00 Expressage 3.75 Exchange, Canadian check .15 Curtailment on loan 50.00 Interest on loan 10.40 _________ Total expenses $1,101.05 Deficit 73.28 Balance due on loan 275.00 NOTE--Although the expenses exceeded the receipts, no actual overdraft occurred because certain bills were not paid until funds from the next year came in. However, both overdraft and loan have been taken care of through contributions made during November and December, 1930. Respectfully submitted, KARL W. GREENE, Treasurer. HARVESTING AND MARKETING THE NATIVE NUT CROPS OF THE NORTH _By C. A. Reed, Associate Pomologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture_ The native nut crops in the northern portion of the country, east of the Rocky Mountains, offer a possible source of considerable income, if gathered while in prime condition and properly prepared for market. Thousands of bushels of highly edible nuts annually go to waste in that portion of the country covered by the great Mississippi Valley, the Appalachian region and the Middle Atlantic seaboard. These are chiefly black walnuts, hickory nuts, and butternuts, although it is probable that several hundred tons of beechnuts which annually go ungathered should be included. These last are too small for human consumption in this country, under the existing relations between human labor and the quality of available food. Nevertheless, there are ways by which they can be put to profitable use.