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Title: Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

Author: Various

Editor: Northern Nut Growers Association

Release Date: June 30, 2008 [EBook #25935]

Language: English

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43rd Annual Report

OF THE

Northern Nut Growers Association

Incorporated

AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Annual Meeting at

ROCKPORT, INDIANA

August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

Table of Contents

Officers and Committees 1952-53 4

State and Foreign Vice Presidents 5

Constitution and By-laws 7

Call to Order, Forty-Third Annual Meeting 11

Address of Welcome—Hilbert Bennett 11

   Business Session 15
     Treasurer's Report—Carl Prell 18
     Committee Reports 21

President's Address—L. H. MacDaniels 27

The Future of Your Nut Planting—W. F. Sonnemann 32

The Value of a Tree—Ferd Bolten 35

Methods of Getting Better Annual Crops on Black Walnut. Panel discussion led by W. W. Magill 38

The 1952 Hickory Survey—H. F. Stoke 46

A Discussion of Hickory Stocks—Gilbert L. Smith 49

Filbert Varieties. Panel discussion led by G. L. Slate 53

My Experiences with Chinese Chestnuts—W. J. Wilson 62

Persian Walnuts in the Upper South—H. F. Stoke 66

Varieties of Persian Walnuts in Eastern Iowa—Ira B. Kyhl 69

   Commercial Production and Processing of Black and Persian
     Walnuts—Edwin L. Lemke 71

Black Walnut Processing at Henderson, Kentucky—R. C. Mangelsdorf 73

Nut Shells: Assets or Liabilities—T. F. Clark 77

   The Propagation of Hickories—Panel discussion led by
     F. L. O'Rourke 81

   A Promising New Pecan for the Northern Zone—J. W. McKay and
     H. L. Crane 89

The Hickory in Indiana—W. B. Ward 91

The Merrick Hybrid Walnut—P. E. Machovina 93

Producing Quality Nuts and Quality Logs—L. E. Sawyer 94

   Colchicine for Nut Improvement Programs—O. J. Eigsti and
     R. B. Best 99

   An Early Pecan and Some Other West Tennessee Nuts—Aubrey
     Richards 101

   Scab Disease in Eastern Kentucky on Busseron Pecan—W. D.
     Armstrong 102

Further News about Oak Wilt—E. A. Curl 102

   Life History and Control of the Pecan Spittle Bug—Stewart
     Chandler 106

Insect Enemies of Northern Nut Trees—Howard Baker 112

   Tuesday Evening Banquet Session Resolutions and Election of
     Officers 118

Chestnut Breeding—Arthur H. Graves and Hans Nienstaedt 120

   Effect of Vermiculite in Inducing Fibrous Roots on Tap Rooting
     Tree Seedlings—Herbert C. Barrett and Toro Arisumi 131

Eastern Black Walnut Survey 1951—H. F. Stoke 133

Crath's Carpathian English Walnuts in Ontario—P. C. Crath 136

Nut Tree Plantings in Southeastern Iowa—Albert B. Ferguson 146

Rockville as a Hickory Interstock—Herman Last 147

   A Fruitful Pair of Carpathian Walnut Varieties in
     Michigan—Gilbert Becker 147

   Suggested Blooming Data to be Recorded for Nut Tree
     Varieties—J. C. McDaniel 148

Note on Chinese Chestnuts—Harwood Steiger 149

Scott Healey—An Obituary 149

A Letter from Dr. W. C. Deming 150

   Sweepstakes Award in Ohio Black Walnut Contest—L. Walter
     Sherman 152

Attendance