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Northern Nut Growers

Association

Incorporated

AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

URBANA, ILLINOIS

August 28, 29 and 30, 1951

The above picture shows a view made last winter of the original Jacobs Persian walnut in Elmore, Ohio. Member Malcolm R. Bumler of Detroit stands under the tree. The picture was made by Mr. W. G. Schmidt and the engraving is by courtesy of Gilbert Becker, our Michigan vice president and president of the Michigan Nut Growers Association.

The Jacobs variety, a second generation seedling of a German walnut, was brought to the attention of the NNGA by Sylvester Shessler, Genoa, Ohio, who has been regularly taking prizes with it and another seedling he found growing at Clay Center. The Jacobs was fourth in the 1950-51 NNGA contest, having a good nut with 47.1% kernel. The tree, now over seventy years old, bears regularly, having 200 pounds of nuts in one recent year. Several members in Ohio, Michigan, and other states are propagating the Jacobs, and it appears to be one of the most promising non-Carpathian Persian varieties for the Midwest.--J. C. McDaniel

Table of Contents

Foreword 4

Officers and Committees, 1951-52 5

State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 6

Attendance at the 1951 Meeting 7

Constitution 9

By-Laws 9

Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting. Starting on 13

Talk by George Hebden Corsan 13

Address of Welcome--C. J. Birkeland 14

Response--H. L. Crane 14

President's Address--William M. Rohrbacher 15

Control of Spittle Bugs on Nut Trees--S. C. Chandler 18

Preliminary Results from Training Chinese Chestnut Trees to Different Heights of Head--J. W. McKay and H. L. Crane 22

The Filbert and Persian Walnut in Indiana--W. B. Ward 29

Nut Growing in Eastern Iowa--Ira M. Kyhl 31

Secretary's Report--J. C. McDaniel 34

Discussion and Resolution on Securing New Members 35

Treasurer's Report--Sterling A. Smith 37

Reports of Committees 38

Announcement of Tour--R. B. Best 39

Status of the Northern Pecan--W. W. Magill, leading discussion 39

Pecans in Northern Virginia--J. Russell Smith 45

Pecans in the Vicinity of St. Paul, Minnesota--Carl Weschcke 47

Preliminary Report on Growth, Flowering, and Magnesium Deficiency of Reed and Potomac Filbert Varieties--H. L. Crane and J. W. McKay 50

Bunch Disease of Black Walnut--J. W. McKay and H. L. Crane 56

A Forester Looks at the Timber Value of Nut Trees--C. S. Walters 62

Symposium on Nut Tree Propagation--F. L. O'Rourke, leader 68

Factors Affecting Nut Tree Propagation--F. L. O'Rourke 78

Nut Rootstock Material in Western Michigan--H. P. Burgart 82

Hudson Valley Experience with Nut Tree Understocks--Gilbert L. Smith 83

Results of 1950 Carpathian Walnut Contest--Spencer B. Chase 86

Colby, a Hardy Persian Walnut for the Central States--J. C. McDaniel 87

Resolutions 90

List of Members of Northern Nut Growers Association 91

Foreword

This volume is going to press somewhat later than was anticipated, and in order to expedite its publication, a few papers which were contributed in 1951 are being held over for the 1952 Report. Two of these will incorporate new data to be presented at the 1952 meeting, Mr. E. A. Curl's discussion on the status of the oak wilt disease and Mr. W. W. Magill's talk on top working of native pecans in southwestern Kentucky. Also deferred are Mr. L. Walter Sherman's "Final Selections in the Five-Year Ohio Black Walnut Contest", the vice-presidents' round table discussion led by Mr. H. F. Stoke, on "What Black Walnut Varieties Shall We Recommend for Planting?" and two short papers from the Ohio section.

"Bunch Disease of Black Walnut" by Drs. McKay and Crane in this volume was read at the 1950 Pleasant Valley Meeting, and the discussion on it will be found in last year's Report. Other "Extras" are the propagation papers by Mr H. P. Burgart and Mr. Gilbert L. Smith, Dr. J. Russell Smith's and Mr Carl Weschcke's papers on pecans, and the reprinted article on Colby Persian walnut by the secretary.

Officers of the Association 1951-1952

COMMITTEES 1951-1952

Royal Oakes, Chairman ; J. Ford Wilkinson ; Spencer Chase ; Ira M. Kyhl ; A. S. Colby ; W. D. Armstrong ; and J. C. McDaniel ex-officio.

Lewis E. Theiss, Chairman ; W. C. Deming ; John Davidson , Arthur H. Graves ; and Mrs. Herbert Negus .

G. L. Slate, Chairman ; Carl F. Prell ; and J. C. McDaniel ex-officio.

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