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marketing the Oregon prodnet without hleaching and to persistently call 

 attention to the fact that they are not bleached on every package in 

 which the nuts are placed for marketing. The process of polishing the 

 nuts is not expensive and may probably be adopted to good advantage. 

 The work is done by partially filling a cylinder with nuts and rotating the 

 cylinder. The nuts are polished by the rubbing of one nut against another 

 in the cylinder. 



When ready to pack the nuts, the method followed by Mr. Prince is to 

 spread the nuts on sorting tables. All worthless nuts, if any, are thrown 

 into a waste box. The nuts which are discolored or ill-shapen go into 

 another box as seconds, and all perfect nuts are placed in the third box. 

 The seconds are put into bags and are for the most part sold to confec- 

 tioners, although their comparative cheapness creates a demand for them 

 from other users of walnuts. It has not hitherto been the practice of Mr. 

 Prince to grade the first-class nuts as to size, but this practice will un- 

 doubtedly come in. Mr. Prince markets his first-class nuts (and they con- 

 stitute the bulk of his crop) in one-pound cartons. In packing in cartons 

 every packer is provided with scales and an exact pound of nuts (not in- 

 cluding the weight of the carton) is placed in each package. He follows 

 the same rule in filling bags and the buyer does not pay for the weight of 

 the bag. 



The nuts grown and sold by Mr. Prince command the highest prices 

 obtained for any walnuts offered for sale to consumers in the United States. 

 It is hoped that every grower of walnuts in this State will realize the 

 importance of using great care in curing and packing his product for 

 market so that the high reputation already obtained for our nuts in those 

 places in which they have been introduced may be maintained as the 

 growing volume of product enables us to send them to market in all parts 

 of the United States. 



