Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Tom has got me on the spot here. I
came here to speak to you about the marketing of black walnuts.
Machinery is a hobby of mine, and that thing there was just one of those
off-shoots of an infertile brain. But Tom is having a lot of trouble,
and a lot of fun with it, so if you people would like to see that
machine, that particular machine, I am glad that he invited you up
there. It may give you a little different idea of what the sheller is up
against in the salvaging of black walnut kernels.
You are interested in growing the black walnuts and other nuts in the
shell, but they do have to be prepared for the public, and Tom's job,
and other people's that are in the shelling business, is getting them
out. The machines are made at Knoxville, Tennessee, and you can get a
fairly decent idea about the shelling of black walnuts from the machine
Smalley has. Tom's is a much larger size.
Now we will get down to this thing I came here to talk to you about, the
marketing of black walnuts. My speech is divided into three parts; the
first is about nuts, the second is about nuts and the third is about
nuts, and I am nuts. Yes, that's more true than you think. My nickname
throughout the United States is "Nuts" McCauley, and I am proud of it.
It is a good nickname to have for a man that's in the nut business. And
I most certainly am in the nut business, machinery on one hand and the
selling of various types of nut kernels on the other.
You people probably don't know it, but you have the best advertised nut
in the United States that you are working with, black walnuts. There are
very few people in the United States that don't know what a black walnut
kernel is, or a black walnut. In fact, I would say that 75 per cent of
them at some time or other have gathered black walnuts, have hulled
them. You know those pretty stained hands you have, and I can remember
back in those days when I was a kid when I used to get those hands of
mine just so brown and black from the hulling of black walnuts that my
mother would almost want to turn me over her knee and spank me. But when
wintertime came I always had a bunch of black walnuts that we could sit
down and crack and put in those cookies or in that fudge.
I have talked to a good many of you people here, and I have a prepared
speech, but I am going to ramble a little bit and I am going to ask you
to ask me questions, because I found out that I don't know so many
things, or the speech that I was going to make to you might not be as
interesting as your asking me questions. I do want to say a few things,
and I will go through quickly.
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