g these nuts with a hammer that the thought came to
me: Why should there not be a faster and better way to crack nuts? Later
I happened to see a walnut cracker made by a blacksmith which did a very
good job of cracking, but was entirely too slow for me.

Being mechanically inclined, I have always entertained a desire to
invent something worth while. I set out to perfect a cracker that would
be fool-proof, easy to work, fast, simple, and strong enough to last a
lifetime. This I accomplished in the Model 6. Before reaching this
point, I had designed and tested five different models, made five
different ways, to see which would be best. They all worked, some good,
some I did not like so well. It was discouraging at times but something
seemed to tell me I had the right principle.

This No. 6 walnut cracker is a success, now in its 11th season and going
stronger all the time. You will find it in 37 states, from Florida to
Washington State, from New Hampshire to California, from Minnesota to
Texas.

Most of the crackers are sent by mail, and some of the customers mention
the fact that they are members of the N.N.G.A. Others do not have trees
on their premises, but collect walnuts by the roadside. One I know of
has 2,000 walnut trees on his 1,200 acre farm.

Marketing of Black Walnuts in Arkansas

T. A. WINKLEMAN, Rogers, Arkansas

The Benton County Produce Company has been in the walnut business for 38
years. For the first few years we dealt only in hulled nuts, shipping
carloads of them to Omaha, Chicago, several points in Nebraska, and the
West Coast. About twenty years ago, as I recall, there was a large
cracking plant at Kansas City and we shipped several carloads there.

Eventually we began to receive small orders for kernels. We filled them
and the number of orders increased. This led us finally to the decision
that we should get out of the hulled nut business and sell only kernels,
and with few exceptions, that's what we have been doing for the past 25
years. During this time the production of kernels throughout the walnut
region has gone up tremendously. As you know, many plants using
mechanical cracking machines have become established. We have stuck to
hand-operated crackers; but even so, we were able one year to turn out
13,000 pounds of kernels. At present we ship kernels to practically
every state in the Union.

Millions of pounds of walnuts are available from Arkansas, Missouri and
Tennessee. He