Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://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 THIRD ANNUAL MEETING LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA DECEMBER 18 and 19, 1912 THE CAYUGA PRESS ITHACA, N. Y. 1913 [Illustration: PROFESSOR JOHN CRAIG A FOUNDER OF THE ASSOCIATION _Died 1912_] * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS Officers and Committees of the Association 3 Members of the Association 4 Constitution and Rules of the Association 8 Proceedings of the Meeting held at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 9 Address of Welcome by the Mayor of Lancaster 9 Response by Mr. Littlepage 11 President's Address. The Practical Aspects of Hybridizing Nut Trees. Robert T. Morris, New York 12 Fraudulent and Uninformed Promoters. T. P. Littlepage, Indiana 22 Recent Work on the Chestnut Blight. Keller E. Rockey, Pennsylvania 37 Some Problems in the Treatment of Diseased Chestnut Trees. Roy G. Pierce, Pennsylvania 44 Nut Growing and Tree Breeding and their Relation to Conservation. J. Russell Smith, Pennsylvania 59 Beginning with Nuts. W. C. Deming, New York 64