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 Record, Rockport, Ind. 1952 156
Membership List—Northern Nut Growers Association 158
Officers for 1952-53
President Richard B. Best, Eldred, Illinois
Vice-President George Salzer, Rochester, New York
Secretary Spencer B. Chase, Norris, Tennessee
Treasurer Carl F. Prell, South Bend, Indiana
Directors Dr. L. H. MacDaniels, Ithaca, New York
Dr. William Rohrbacher, Iowa City, Iowa