TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fruiting Chinese Chestnut Branches (Courtesy Dr. H. Reid Hunter) 2

Officers and Committees 6

State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 7

Constitution 8

By-Laws 9

Proceedings of the Thirty-ninth Annual Convention 12
Address of Welcome—George F. Gant 12
Response—Dr. L. H. MacDaniels 14
President's Address—John Davidson 15
Secretary's Report—J. C. McDaniel 16
Treasurer's Report—D. C. Snyder 18
Other Business of the Association, Committee Election and Reports 19

The Development and Propagation of Blight Resistant Chestnut in
West Virginia—Ralph H. Quick 26

The Present Status of the Chestnut in Virginia—R. C. Moore 31

Growing Chinese Chestnuts in Lee County, Alabama—G. S. Jones 34

Processed Chestnuts on the Market throughout the Year—J. C. Moore 38

Chestnut Growing in the Southeast—Max B. Hardy 41

Mr. Hardy and Some Chestnuts Prepared for Storage 41

Marketing Chestnuts in the Pacific Coast—Carroll D. Bush 51

Chestnut Weevils and Their Control with DDT—E. R. Van Leeuwen 54

Diseases Affecting the Success of Tree Crop Plantings—G. F. Gravatt and Donald C. Stout 60

Chinese x American Hybrid Chestnut Trees 62

The Brooming Disease of Walnuts 64-65

Trees Killed by the Persimmon Wilt 67

Round Table Discussion on Chestnut Problems—Spencer B. Chase,
Presiding 69

Greetings from a Kentucky Nut—Dr. C. A. Moss 83

Nut Trees for West Tennessee—Aubrey Richards, M.D. 85

Marketing Black Walnuts as a Community Projects—Rev. Bernard
Taylor 87

Experiences with Tree Crops in Meigs County, Tennessee—W. A.
Shadow 88

Nut Hobbying in Eastern West Virginia—Wilbert M. Frye 91

A Look, "Backward and Forward" into Nut Growing in Kentucky—W.
G. Tatum 93

Round Table Discussion on Judging Schedule for Black Walnuts—Dr.
L. H. MacDaniels, Chairman 95

Fruiting Black Walnut at Brooks, Alberta, Canada 103

Present Outlook for Honeylocust in the South—J. C. Moore 104

Possibilities of Filbert Growing in Virginia—E. L. Overholser 111

Filberts for Food and Looks in Kentucky—N. R. Elliott 116

J. F. Jones, Introducer of Many Nut Varieties—Clarence A. Reed 118

J. F. Jones 118

Mildred and Wesley Langdoc 125

The Value of Nut Trees in Tennessee—F. S. Chance 126

The Development and Filling of Nuts—H. L. Crane 130

The Grafted Curly Walnut as a Timber Tree—J. Ford Wilkinson 139

The Black Walnut Situation in Tennessee—George B. Shivery 142

Grafting Walnuts in Ohio—Sylvester Shessler 145

Grafting Walnuts in the Greenhouse—George L. Slate 146

Nut Investigations at the Pennsylvania State College—William S.
Clarke, Jr. 148

Black Walnuts: A New Specialty at Renfro Valley—Tom Mullins 149

Marketing Black Walnut Kernels—F. J. McCauley 152

Production of Bacteria-Free Walnut Kernels—Roger W. Pease 157

Pecan Selection in Oklahoma—Dr. Frank B. Cross 160

Pecan Improvement Program for Southwestern Kentucky—W. W.
Magill 164

Pecan Production in South Carolina—T. L. Senn 167

Preservation of Shelled Pecans by Drying and Hermetically
Sealing—Hubert Harris 169

Follow-Up Studies on the 1946 Ohio Black Walnut Prize Winners—L.
Walter Sherman 174

Final Business Session, Election of Officers, Reports of Committees 177

Odds and Ends—Dr. W. C. Deming 181

The Birth of a New Walnut Cracker—B. H. Thompson 183

Marketing of Black Walnuts in Arkansas—T. A. Winkleman 183

Further Notes on Nut Tree Guards for Pasture Plantings—Oliver D.
Diller 184

Wire Guard Around Young Chestnut Tree 185

A Pecan Orchard in Glouchester County, Virginia—Mrs. Selina L.
Hopkins 186

Indiana Nut Shows Have Educational Value—W. B. Ward 188

View of an Indiana Nut Exhibit 189

The Importance of Stock and Scion Relationship in Hickory and
Walnut—Carl Weschcke 190

Progress with Nuts at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire—Matthew Lahti 195

Breeding Chestnuts in the New York City Area—Alfred Szego 196

Winter Injury to Nut Trees at Ithaca, New York, in the Fall and
Winter of 1947-48—L. H. MacDaniels and Damon Boynton 199

What Came Through the Hard Winter in Ontario—George Hebden
Corsan 201

Filberts Grow in Vermont—Joseph N. Collins 202

Report of Necrology Committee 203
Carl E. Schuster 203
Mrs. Laura Selden Ellwanger 204
M. M. Kaufman 205
Norman B. Ward 205

Attendance 206

Northern Nut Growers Association, Membership List 209

Exhibitors at the 39th Annual Meeting 222

Announcements 223

+Please Note: The membership list is in the back of this volume.+

OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION 1949

President—H. F. Stoke, 1436 Watts Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia

Vice-President—Dr. L. H. MacDaniels, Dept. of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Treasurer—Sterling A. Smith, 630 West South Street, Vermilion, Ohio

Secretary—J. C. McDaniel, Tennessee Dept. of Agriculture, State Office Bldg., Nashville 3, Tennessee

Directors include above officers plus: John Davidson, 234 E. Second Street, Xenia, Ohio; and Clarence A. Reed, 7309 Piney Branch Road, N. W., Washington 12, D.C.

Dean—Dr. W. C. Deming, 31 S. Highland, West Hartford 7, Connecticut

Nominating Committee—Dr. H. L. Crane, Harry R. Weber, Dr. William L. Rohrbacher, J. Ford Wilkinson, George L. Slate