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