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
The first is the marketing of black walnuts in the shell. We find in the
marketing of any product that there is a tremendous amount of waste due
to poor sacking, due to a little dishonesty on the part of the people
who are selling merchandise. You know, if there is a brick in a bag, the
brick weighs a pound, that costs the man who buys the black walnuts
money. In other words, out of that pound of brick he intended to get a
small quantity of meats to sell, so his cost immediately goes up. You'd
be surprised at how many bricks and how much iron there is in black
walnuts and pecans! It's universal throughout the United States. There
is a lot of chiseling that goes on. Your bags should be good. Black
walnuts must be held for some time before they are processed, and one
black walnut bag used one year can't be used another. If you can get by
with one year's use of a bag to hold a hundred pounds, or whatever is
put in it, of black walnuts, you are very fortunate. Usually they break
out before the year is over, and that causes waste. So start out with a
decent bag.
I made a little note here to talk to you about California black walnuts.
The standard throughout the United States to people who actually buy
black walnut kernels is what we call in the brokerage field Eastern
black walnuts. That means Kentucky and Tennessee. Those are Eastern
blacks, they are the blacks with the flavor, the blacks that stand up.
From my home state they have Missouri blacks, but the quality isn't
there. The flavor doesn't hold up. But you people down here grow the
finest blacks in the world. California, yes, California grows and shells
a lot of black walnuts, but they don't have a black walnut flavor. The
flavor is gone. Where it went, I don't know. But there isn't any black
walnut flavor in California blacks. [A different species, _Juglans
hindsi_--Ed.]
So some unscrupulous people buy California blacks and mix them with
Eastern black walnuts. Then they can't call them Eastern blacks. They
are just black walnut kernels. But black walnut kernels that are 100 per
cent Eastern black walnut kernels should be the standard of black
walnuts through the country.
Now, Tom has told you something about the process of shelling. I am just
going on to say that the average sheller gets about 10 to 11.7 pounds of
black walnut kernels to the hundred pounds. So you can realize there
again what a problem he has.
Well, the marketing of black walnuts is the selling of black walnuts in
the shell or shelled. We have very little demand in the Chicago markets
for in-the-shell black walnuts. I probably sell, oh, maybe 5,000 pounds
a year on South Water Market, and they go out to the various stores, and
they, in turn, sell them to the homes that like to crack black walnuts
instead of buying the kernels.
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