dson: In the hull?

Mr. Mullins: No, that's dry shell. Our walnuts in the hull we paid a
dollar and a quarter a hundred for, and if we had had good success we'd
have made some money on it at that angle.

There is one question I'd like to put before you gentlemen. Maybe some
of you know a little something about it. I was reading an article not
long ago in Popular Mechanics Magazine about some plant on the West
Coast that is developing the Vitamin C content of the walnut hull
itself. It is very high, the Vitamin C content in the walnut hull.

Another thing we did last year. After we hulled all of these walnuts we
had a mess of hulls on hand, and our farmers were a little reluctant to
come and get them. We tried to talk them into using them for fertilizer.
They are kind of like some of the boys, they have got to be shown. They
have to see somebody else do it before they tackle it.

Out of curiosity I laid my garden off and divided it in half, and on one
half I put a top dressing of these dried-out, pulverized walnut hulls,
and I firmly believe that the side that had the walnut hulls on it
produced twice as much. And some of the boys in the neighborhood kind of
noticed what kind of garden I had, and we don't have any hull problem
anymore. They carried them all off.

Same way with the shells. We tried to get them to haul the shells off to
use them on the fields for tobacco land and to grow blue grass, and they
found out that was pretty good, so they are bothering us now about our
shells.

We have another by-product. It is too small a granule kernel to go
through, and we can't remove the shell from it. We have tried that out
on chickens and hogs and some other farm animals, turkeys, ducks and
geese. One boy that works for me there in the cracking plant had 28
hens. He had them in a pen, and he was getting six and eight eggs a day.
So I talked him into taking some of these granules home and feeding them
to his chickens, and in two weeks his 28 hens were producing 20 to 24
eggs a day. That kind of settled that problem, too. Some of the boys
kind of got an idea they'd like to have some of that.

A lot of you folks are here from the North, and you possibly would be
going back along Highway 25 going home, and I'd like to extend an
invitation now to stop off tomorrow or the next day and look over our
plant. It's quite interesting, quite a complicated piece of machinery.
Mr. McCauley at Chicago is the gentleman who designed t