Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, J. Henkin, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED REPORT _OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE_ Twenty-first Annual Meeting [Illustration] CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. SEPTEMBER 17, 18, 19, 1930 NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION _INCORPORATED_ REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Twenty-first Annual Meeting CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. _SEPTEMBER 17, 18, 19, 1930_ CONTENTS Officers, Directors and Committees 3 State Vice-Presidents 4 List of Members 5 Constitution 9 By-Laws 11 Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Convention 13 Nuts and Nut Growers of the Middle West--S. W. Snyder 14 Address of Professor T. J. Maney 20 Methods in Scoring the Black Walnut--Prof. N. F. Drake 23 Nuts in North Dakota--Prof. A. F. Yeager 27 Report on the 1929 Nut Contest--Dr. W. C. Deming 28 New Members' Experience and Questions 31 Discussion on Chestnut Growing 33 The Paraffin Method in Transplanting Nursery Stock--Prof. J. A. Neilson 37 Some Notes on the Japanese Walnut in North America--Prof. J. A. Neilson 39 Thirty Years Experience in the Care of Scionwood--F. O. Harrington 46 Experiments and Observations in Searching for Best Seedling Nut Trees--J. F. Wilkinson 51 More Nuts--Less Meat--Dr. J. H. Kellogg 57 Induced Immunity to Chestnut Blight--Dr. G. A. Zimmerman 68 Plant Patent Act--Thomas P. Littlepage 73 Banquet 77 President's Address 81 Report of the Secretary 87 Business Session 89 Treasurer's Report 91 Harvesting and Marketing the Native Nut Crop of the North--C. A. Reed 92 Beechnuts--Willard G. Bixby 100 The 1929 Contest--Willard G. Bixby 104 Attendance Record 117 OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION