5

Constitution and By-laws 7

Call to Order, Forty-Third Annual Meeting 11

Address of Welcome--Hilbert Bennett 11

Business Session 15
Treasurer's Report--Carl Prell 18
Committee Reports 21

President's Address--L. H. MacDaniels 27

The Future of Your Nut Planting--W. F. Sonnemann 32

The Value of a Tree--Ferd Bolten 35

Methods of Getting Better Annual Crops on Black Walnut. Panel
discussion led by W. W. Magill 38

The 1952 Hickory Survey--H. F. Stoke 46

A Discussion of Hickory Stocks--Gilbert L. Smith 49

Filbert Varieties. Panel discussion led by G. L. Slate 53

My Experiences with Chinese Chestnuts--W. J. Wilson 62

Persian Walnuts in the Upper South--H. F. Stoke 66

Varieties of Persian Walnuts in Eastern Iowa--Ira B. Kyhl 69

Commercial Production and Processing of Black and Persian
Walnuts--Edwin L. Lemke 71

Black Walnut Processing at Henderson, Kentucky--R. C. Mangelsdorf 73

Nut Shells: Assets or Liabilities--T. F. Clark 77

The Propagation of Hickories--Panel discussion led by
F. L. O'Rourke 81

A Promising New Pecan for the Northern Zone--J. W. McKay and
H. L. Crane 89

The Hickory in Indiana--W. B. Ward 91

The Merrick Hybrid Walnut--P. E. Machovina 93

Producing Quality Nuts and Quality Logs--L. E. Sawyer 94

Colchicine for Nut Improvement Programs--O. J. Eigsti and
R. B. Best 99

An Early Pecan and Some Other West Tennessee Nuts--Aubrey
Richards 101

Scab Disease in Eastern Kentucky on Busseron Pecan--W. D.
Armstrong 102

Further News about Oak