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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XX. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 1912 No. i 
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS CONVENE 
AT CORNELL 
A Live Meeting. Large Exhibition. Important Resolutions. 
The second annual meeting 
of this Association of men in¬ 
terested in the promotion of nut 
culture in the Northeast was 
held at the New York State 
College of Agriculture at Cornell 
University, December 14 and 15. 
Not in the recollection of the 
writer has he attended a meeting 
of any body of men interested 
in crop production where dis¬ 
cussion flowed so easily and 
pointedly, and where every 
member seemed charged with 
a special mission on behalf of 
nut culture and the extension of 
the nut industry. Every session 
was replete with subject matter 
derived from papers or develop¬ 
ing in the subsequent discussion 
of prime interest to those direct¬ 
ly or indirectly affected by the 
production of fruit and fruit 
products. The leading students 
of our native nut flora were 
present. Men like Dr. Robert 
T. Morris, Dr. W. C. Deming, of 
New York City, Mr. T. P. Little- 
page of Washington, Mr. J. G. 
Rush of West Willow, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Mr. W. N. Roper of 
Petersburg, Virginia, Professors 
Lake and Reed of Washington, Professor Collins of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and others, gave of their best information, gathered 
from years of experience, for the benefit of those presently 
involved or only engaged in anticipation in the many-sided 
field of nut culture. 
Important Resolutions 
The society placed itself strongly on record in respect to 
the importance of comprehensive, systematic, well directed 
legislative effort, looking towards the control or prevention 
of the chestnut bark disease. Strong resolutions on this 
subject were passed to be for¬ 
warded to the departments of 
agriculture of the northeastern 
states and the United States 
Secretary of Agriculture. Simi¬ 
lar action was taken with refer¬ 
ence to the hickory bark beetle, 
which has been causing so much 
loss in the hickory growing regions 
of the Northeast in recent years. 
Especially virulent outbreaks 
have been recorded from Penn¬ 
sylvania and eastern New York 
in recent months. In the case 
of New York State, and due to 
the comprehensive insect and 
disease control act in force in the 
State, the Society urged the 
Commissioner of Agriculture to 
include this insect among the Hst 
of those deemed especially dan¬ 
gerous and calling for definite 
restrictive measures ^aiming for 
control. 
The chestnut bark disease was 
treated very fully by Mr. J. 
Franklin Collins, special agent 
of the Pennsylvania Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, and Doctor 
Reddick of the New York State 
College of Agriculture. The 
hickory bark beetle was dis¬ 
cussed by Professor Herrick of the Department of Ento¬ 
mology of Cornell, who called attention to the grave 
possibility that this insect might spread to the cultivated 
forms of the hickory. 
Papers and Discussions 
Among the important papers presented, was an exceed¬ 
ingly suggestive one by Mr. T. P. Littlepage of Washington, 
who has extensive pecan interests in southern Indiana, 
and who for the past several years has been exploring the 
bottoms of the Wabash and the Ohio for promising seedling 
DR. ROBERT T. MORRIS 
President Northern Nut Growers 
