The high score of sample 4 is probably related to the soaking treatment though the scores of sample 3 also soaked is lower than that of sample 6 which was not soaked. It seems that when these conditions and with this variety stored in a fairly high humidity, soaking had little effect except to increase the number of halves recovered. TABLE 2 Cracking tests by single operator with 10 random replicate samples of Snyder black walnuts. 1942 crop. 25 nut samples. KEY: A: Wt. 1 nut grams B: % kernel 1st crack C: % kernel total D: Quarters number E: Penalty F: Score Sample Treatment A B C D E F Remarks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Dry as received 18.1 21.8 23.1 85 -9.0 72.7 3 empty, 12 shr. 2 Dry as received 18.5 24.0 25.8 99 -5.0 84.3 10 shr. 3 Soaked 9 hrs., dried 14 hrs. 18.6 25.7 28.0 94 -6.0 87.4 1 empty, 10 shr., 8 bnd. qtrs., 16 hvs. 4 Soaked as above 18.3 26.9 28.4 99 -4.5 91.7 9 shr., 5 bnd. qtrs., 19 hvs. 5 Held in cellar 4 days 18.0 24.4 25.7 90 -6.5 82.1 1 empty, 11 shr., (high humidity) 8 bnd. qtrs. 6 Held in cellar 7 days 19.0 25.6 27.2 99 -5.0 88.7 10 shr., 7 bnd. qtrs., 3 hvs. 7 Held in cellar 7 days 18.4 23.9 26.1 96 -6.5 82.3 1 empty, 11 shr., 9 bnd. qtrs. 8 Held in cellar 4 days 19.2 24.8 26.6 98 -5.5 86.4 11 shr., 4 bnd. qtrs. 9 Held in cellar 4 days 18.4 23.7 26.7 92 -7.5 81.6 2 black counted as empty, 11 shr., 12 bnd. qtrs. 10 Held in cellar 4 days 18.6 23.5 25.9 94 -5.5 83.4 1 empty, 9 shr., 10 bnd. qtrs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another lot of 24 random replicate 25 nut samples of Ohio black walnut from the original tree was made by scooping the nuts out of a bag with a quart berry box which held about 25 nuts. Care was used not to select the samples in any way. The lightest sample 3 weighed 385 grams, the heaviest 22 weighed 434 grams or a difference of 2 grams per nut. The score of these two samples was 85.0 and 85.4 respectively apparently because there were no empty nuts in either sample.