Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Northern Nut Growers Association _INCORPORATED_ Affiliated with The American Horticultural Society Thirty-fourth Annual Report 1943 CONTENTS Officers and committees 3 State Vice-Presidents 4 List of members 5 Constitution 18 By-Laws 19 Foreword--W. C. Deming 20 Report of the Secretary for 1942-43 20 Report of the Treasurer for 1942-43 21 The Status of Nut Growing in 1943. Survey Report 22 John Davidson, Chairman of Committee. Side-lights on the 1943-44 Survey 47 Seasonal Zone Map of United States 51 Juglone: The active Agent in Walnut Toxicity--George A. Gries 52 Possible Black Walnut Toxicity on Tomato and Cabbage--Otto Reinking 56 Preliminary Studies on Catkin Forcing and Pollen Storage of Corylus and Juglans--L. G. Cox 58 Storage and Germination of Nuts of Several Species of Juglans--W. C. Muenscher and Babette I. Brown 61 A Key to Some Seedlings of Walnuts (Juglans)--W. C. Muenscher and Babette I. Brown 62 Further Tests with Black Walnut Varieties--L. H. MacDaniels and J. E. Wilde 64 Shelling Black Walnuts--G. J. Korn 83 Better Butternuts, Please--S. H. Graham 85 The Use of Fertilizer in a Walnut Orchard--L. K. Hostetter 88 Lime and Fertilizers for our Black Walnut Trees--Seward Berhow 89 The Propagation of Black Walnuts through Budding--Sterling Smith 89 Northern Nut Growing--Joseph Gerardi 91 Nut Puttering in an Off Year--W. C. Deming 94 Nut Nursery Notes--H. F. Stoke 96 Report from the Tennessee Valley--Thomas G. Zarger 98 Report from Minnesota--Carl Weschcke 99 Be Thrifty with Nut Trees--Carl Weschcke 104 Report of Season 1943--George Hebden Corsan 105