now. If any of you ever come to Chicago, I have an experimental
plant in Chicago. If you could remember McCauley, it's "McCauley
Company," or "McCauley Machinery Company," and in that plant I also have
a new machine for bagging nuts, cellophane bagging. It makes the bag,
fills it and seals it in one operation, and we have operated that
machine at the rate of 100 bags per minute, 2-ounce or 6-ounce, it
doesn't make any difference. The only trouble is the people couldn't
handle the bags that fast, so we had to cut it down to 58 a minute. It's
quite an operation, and at this time it is an experimental operation.
But I would be more than pleased to have any of you drop in on me in
Chicago. If I am not there someone in my organization will be glad to
show you, if you tell them what you came for.

I have a "California" walnut, or Persian, as you call it. I was much
surprised to see all these samples of walnuts down here. I have a walnut
shelling plant in Chicago, I do at this time. Maybe when you get there
it will be a pecan shelling plant, or maybe it will be a _Macadamia_ nut
plant. How many of you people have ever heard of _Macadamia_ nuts?
(Several hands raised.) More than I thought for. Well, we are working on
a plant to shell _Macadamias_ now. Of course, that is a tropical nut,
grown chiefly in Hawaii and Australia. The Australian nut is not nearly
as good as the Hawaiian nut. But to those of you who are not familiar
with the nut, I have given it to any number of people and asked for
their reaction, and some said it tasted like a filbert, others said it
tasted like cocoanut, and the third one named was Brazil nut. So it's a
very pleasant nut to eat, but very, very expensive.

Dr. Moss: I live in Williamsburg in Whitley County not far from you, and
we have no market there for black walnuts at all and got quite a lot of
them there. I wonder if it would be practical to have a collection
center.

Mr. Mullins: It certainly would. In the southeastern part of Texas we
have one.

Dr. MacDaniels: A question, Mr. McCauley. You said that you are able to
recover about 11 per cent in the cracking plant on the average, I think
you said 10 to 11.7 for ordinary run quality. Now, if you had walnuts
that would run 25 to 28 per cent kernel, how much would your processing
plants recover out of that, I am just-wondering?

Mr. McCauley: Well, I would like to say two per cent less than the
hand-cracked weight. In other words, if you had