and can be used by different people with reasonably similar results, and
if it does differentiate the things that we want to have a schedule
differentiate in a test.

This last year we had hoped to do this, but there weren't enough samples
of nuts available to be worth testing. I spent about $10 personally
buying nuts from this source and that, and there wasn't a good sample in
the lot, except one, which Sterling Smith gave me.

I think that if we have another season to work the schedule that has
been proposed, we at least can demonstrate whether or not it is
differentiating between varieties in a manner which is satisfactory.

I believe a motion is in order to bring this matter to a decision and
end this discussion. Have you any further comment, Mr. Chase?

Mr. Chase: If it is not out of order, I move that we adopt for further
trial, the scoring schedule proposed in the paper by Dr. Atwood and Dr.
MacDaniels in the 1947 Report of the Northern Nut Growers Association.

President Davidson: I second the motion.

Mr. Stoke: May I make one remark? Does not that schedule ignore the
factors of color and taste?

Dr. MacDaniels: It does, as not being objective characters.

Mr. Stoke: In other words, this motion approves something from the
commercial slant rather than from the personal use slant.

Dr. MacDaniels: I wouldn't say that; it simply limits the judging
schedule to those characteristics which can be objectively handled and
are not a matter of opinion or judgment. That's the point here, I think.

Mr. Chase: Mr. Stoke and I don't quite agree--I don't think we are the
only two--on flavor and color. However, in our exchange of
correspondence we fully appreciate the advantage of light-colored,
mild-flavored kernels. But I don't see any method by which we can place
a numerical value on the color and flavor. Can we not describe the color
and flavor along with the rating that describes the kernel and still
have you on our side?

Mr. Stoke: Personally, I think we are splitting hairs. When we can't
agree as to which color class a sample belongs, it must be somewhere
near the border-line. Ordinarily the average human being will agree
pretty well as to a blonde or a brunette or one that's neutral. And I
think in the judging of walnuts, there can be no exact value based on
the color. If you consider color and make a scientific test, your test
wouldn't be the same as my test. But if it is a dark kernel, you can
recognize