ut the ease of extraction, or do we
want nuts for home use that will give a high yield of large pieces?
These machines, as I understand it, will crack the walnuts and get the
kernels out in small pieces regardless of how they crack in a Hershey
cracker.

Mr. Weber: As I understood Mr. Mullins, he favored having a lot of
Thomas if he could get them.

Dr. MacDaniels: Would he pay the difference? I don't know. Dr. Crane
says he would.

President Davidson: When I talked to him--we passed through there and
saw the plant--he said he thinks well enough of the better nuts to come
here for the purpose of learning where and how to manage a plantation of
his own of Thomas and the other budded varieties for his own cracking
plant. In his own cracking plant the yield for the amount of labor
expended is so much better on the improved varieties that he wants to
make a planting of his own. He will pay more, but just how much more, I
don't know.

That brings up another matter. As I have said before, our state
authorities should be urged again and again and again to buy _good_ seed
nuts for distribution to the public so that we can get these better
quality nuts into the woods. Some of them are agreeing to that. Some of
them are doing it. But so far not very much has been done.

Dr. MacDaniels: I think that before your committee goes ahead we must
get a decision on this point, for the approaches are quite different. If
you are developing a schedule for home use, the size of the nuts is of
importance. In general, the bigger the nut the easier it is to handle,
the easier it is to shuck and crack. The percentage of kernel is
relatively less important than it is in the commercial cracking. The
size of the particles recovered is more important for home use. If they
come out easily and in large pieces, they are much more desirable.

On the other hand, in commercial cracking the percentage of kernel is
important. The commercial buyer wants to know how many pounds of kernels
can be expected from a hundred pounds of nuts. He is not much interested
in the size of the nuts or the size of pieces that are recovered. This
is an entirely different approach to the problem. We have got to decide
between the two before the committee goes further.

Dr. Crane: There is another angle to the problem. A lot of the black
walnuts today are used in the bakery trade and in the ice cream trade.
But I visualize a market for black walnut kernels to be eaten ou