TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cross-pollinating Chestnut Trees 3

Officers and Committees, 1950-51 6

State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 7

Attendance at the 1950 Meeting 8

Constitution 11

By-Laws 12

Proceedings of the Forty-first Annual Meeting. Starting on 15

Secretary's Report—J. C. McDaniel 15

Treasurer's Report—Sterling A. Smith 16

Report of Publications—Lewis E. Theiss 18

Discussion of Time and Place of Meeting 19

Report of Nominating Committee 20

President's Address—Mildred Jones Langdoc 22

Association Sends Greetings to Dr. Deming 24

Talk by the Oldest Member—-George Hebden Corsan 25

The 1949 Persian Walnut Contest with Notes from Persian Walnut Growers—Spencer B. Chase 27

Plans for the 1950 Carpathian Walnut Contest—Spencer B. Chase 30

Carpathian Scions for Testing 32

The Persian Walnut in Pennsylvania and Ohio—L.
Walter Sherman 34

Notes on Persian Walnuts in England—Sargent Wellman 40

Prospects for Persian Walnuts in the Vicinity of
St. Paul, Minn.—Carl Weschcke 43

Discussion on Persian Walnut Climatic Adaptation 46

Grafted Black and Persian Walnuts in Michigan—Gilbert Becker 48

The Carpathian Walnut in Indiana—W. B. Ward 51

Notes on Nut Growing in New Hampshire—Matthew Lahti 55

Is the Farmer Missing Something?—John Davidson 56

How to Lose Money in Manufacturing
Filbert Nut Butter—Carl Weschcke 60

Filberts, Walnuts and Chestnuts on the
Niagara Peninsula—Elton E. Papple 63

Nut Varieties: A Round Table Discussion—H.
L. Crane, Chairman 66