Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |DISCLAIMER | | | |The articles published in the Annual Reports of the Northern Nut Growers| |Association are the findings and thoughts solely of the authors and are | |not to be construed as an endorsement by the Northern Nut Growers | |Association, its board of directors, or its members. No endorsement is | |intended for products mentioned, nor is criticism meant for products not| |mentioned. The laws and recommendations for pesticide application may | |have changed since the articles were written. It is always the pesticide| |applicator's responsibility, by law, to read and follow all current | |label directions for the specific pesticide being used. The discussion | |of specific nut tree cultivars and of specific techniques to grow nut | |trees that might have been successful in one area and at a particular | |time is not a guarantee that similar results will occur elsewhere. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING [Illustration] WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 18 AND 19 1913 NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 18 AND 19, 1913 CONCORD, N. H. THE RUMFORD PRESS 1914 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Officers and Committees of the Association 4 Members of the Association 5 Constitution and Rules of the Association 10 Proceedings of the Meeting held at Washington, D. C., November 18 and 19, 1913 11 Experiences and Experiments with the Persian Walnut, A. C. Pomeroy, New York 11 Forage Nuts and the Chestnut and Walnut in Europe, J. Russell Smith, Virginia 20 Present State of the Chestnut Blight, J. Franklin Collins, Washington, D. C. 25 Top-Working Seedling Pecan Trees, W. N. Hutt, North Carolina 32 Unusual Methods of Propagating Nut Trees, Dr. Robert T. Morris, New York City 43 The Possibilities of Nut Culture in Utah, Leon D. Batchelor, Utah 48 The Diseases of Nut Trees, M. B. Waite, Washington, D. C. 50 Insects Injurious to Nut Trees, A. L. Quaintance, Washington, D. C. 62