been stored away. They prefer to crack the
Thomas nuts by hand.

So my point is this: It appears to me that we are interested in the
grower of several trees around the farmstead. At least, in this section
we are. Everyone here gathers and cracks walnuts. Our idea of
acquainting them with the Thomas variety is to make their job easier in
cracking and picking them out. It seems to me that's also the problem
that we have as a group elsewhere, and I believe that in order for us to
make headway on this judging schedule, which I think is necessary and
desirable, we must view it from the home viewpoint at this time. That
does not shut out the commercial viewpoint for later years. But now we
are primarily interested in the home raising of nuts, unless I am in the
wrong group. Thank you.

Mr. Weber: Mr. Chairman, I agree heartily with what Mr. Chase has to
say, or otherwise we might as well quit now and raise seedling nuts to
the best of our ability and sell them to the commercial crackers and let
it go at that. But, if we do that, what's the use of searching out
better varieties?

Dr. Cross: Mr. Chairman: I believe that if a nut acceptable to the home
consumer, one which extracts easily and is attractive and palatable and
is productive--if that type of nut is scored and comes to the attention
of a sufficient number of growers, then I think the commercial people
_will_ utilize it. So I don't believe there is anything to this
argument. I believe if you go ahead on the basis of the home consumer
and develop a nut that will be desirable for his purpose, and if in
addition to these factors that have been discussed it is adaptable and
productive, then it is going to be eventually the nut that the
commercial man will utilize, because, after all, what we are growing
nuts for is the kernel.

Mr. Weber: To bring it to a head, I move that we adopt that part of the
report that favors the home consumer as against the commercial consumer,
or we will be here all night talking about it.

Dr. Rohrbacher: I second the motion.

Dr. MacDaniels: You have heard the motion, which was seconded. Any
remarks?

(Vote taken on the motion, carried unanimously.)

Dr. MacDaniels: That will be the basis on which the committee will work.

There are several other points to be considered. I would suggest the
committee be asked to make further tests with the schedule as proposed
in order to get additional data to determine if it is a usable schedule