Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting / Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

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44th Annual Report
Northern Nut Growers Association
Incorporated

Annual Meeting at
August 31—September 1, 1953
Officers and Committees 1953-54 4 State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 6 Constitution and By-laws 8 Call to Order, 44th Annual Meeting 11 Address of Welcome—Wilbur Wright 12 Business Session—Secretary's Report—Treasurer's Report 13, 14, 15 Blossoming Habits of the Persian Walnut—H. F. Stoke 18 President's Address—Richard B. Best 22 About Nuts—Ira M. Kyhl 28 Natural Variation Observed in Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch. in Central New York—David H. Caldwell 29 The Control of the Hickory Weevil (Curculio caryae) 39 Round Table Discussion—What's Your Problem 43 The International Chestnut Commission and the Chestnut Blight Problem in Europe, 1953—G. Flippo Gravatt 52 Rooting Chestnuts from Softwood Cuttings—Roger W. Pease 56 Evaluating Chestnuts Grown under Forest Conditions—Jesse D. Diller 59 Panel Discussion—Chestnuts 62 Development of the Nut Industry in the Middle West—J. F. Wilkinson 70 Some Aspects of the Problem of Producing Curly-Grained Walnuts—L. H. MacDaniels 72 Late Rev. Paul C. Crath—L. K. Devitt 80 The Eastern Black Walnut as a Farm Timber Tree—John Davidson 84 The McKinster Persian Walnut—P. E. Machovina 89 Carpathian Walnuts in the Colombia River Basin—Lynn Tuttle 94 Walnuts and Filberts in Southern Wisconsin—C. F. Ladwig 95 Biology, Distribution and Control of the Walnut Husk Maggot—F. L. Gambrell 98 Panel Discussion: The Persian Walnut Situation 104 Banquet Session—Resolutions Committee Report 109 Walnuts in Lubec, Maine—Radcliffe B. Pike 115 My Thirty Years Experience with Nut Trees—Carl Weschcke 116 Growing American Chestnuts and Their Hybrids Under Blight Conditions—Alfred Szego 119 Experiences and Observations on Nut Growing in Central Texas—Kaufman Florida 121 Propagation of the Hickories—F. L. O'Rourke 122 A Root Disease of the Persian Walnut—G. Flippo Gravatt 127 Factors That Influence Nut Production—W. B. Ward 129 Pictorial Record of Grafting at Climax Michigan—W. M. Beckert 134 Rock Phosphate for Nut Trees—Harry B. Burgart 135 A Report from Southern Minnesota—R. E. Hodgson 136 Chestnut Breeding—Report for 1953—Arthur Harmount Graves and Hans Nienstaedt 136 Dr. W. C. Deming—John Davidson 144 The Nomenclature of Nut Varieties—George H. M. Lawrence 145 The New Code for the Naming of Cultivated Plants—J. S. L. Gilman 149 Exhibit at the Harvest Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 158 Attendance Register, Rochester, N. Y. 1953 159 Membership List 160