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