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BETTER FRUIT 



March, iqso 



Continued from page 21. 



ning to require the bigger portion of 

 the grower's attention. 



The method used in drying and wash- 

 ing the walnuts is similar to that used 

 with the prune crop. The usual method 

 of picking and drying is to have the 

 crew pick one day and dry the next. 

 After picking the nuts are placed in 

 water and tlioroughly washed to re- 

 move the diit and otlier materials. A 

 common nietliod is to use the prune 

 washers, witli special arrangements of 

 some sort to collect the fibre from the 

 nuts, usually accomplished by means of 

 false bottoms, as the fibre is generally 

 given off in large quantities. A special 

 note might well be added at this time, 

 too, as to the possibilities lying in the 

 utilization of the by-products from the 

 nuts. Tlie fibre given off may readily 

 be dried and used for various purposes, 

 while the present demand for dyes 



tends to make the production of walnut 

 dye very profitable, the color of the 

 walnut dye being one that has not as 

 yet been equalled. 



After the nuts are thoroughly washed 

 they are deposited in broad shallow 

 trays, having a meshed wire of one- 

 quarter to one-half inch for a bottom. 

 The trays are then placed in tiers, ar- 

 ranged on a slight slant, on a truck, 

 the trucks then being hauled into the 

 drying rooms. Here the nuts are kept 

 at a temperature varying from 75° to 

 90° Fahrenheit for two days and a 

 night. During the drying extreme care 

 is necessary to see that the stipulated 

 temperature is maintained, for if the 

 heat falls to below 70°, mold will quick- 

 ly develop on the nuts, while if it ex- 

 ceeds 90° the nuts may crack open and 

 the oil therein may become started, re- 



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suiting in liii' mils rapidly becoming 

 rancid anil unlit for u.se. 



As to the heating, the drier may be 

 heated either by hot air or by steam 

 pipes. The hot air method has proven 

 highly satisfactory and is by far the 

 cheaper, the principal objections to it 

 being that the dryer itself must be care- 

 fully arranged so as to alTord uniform 

 heating and incidentally, that there is 

 an extremely disagreeable odor given 

 off at times if the furnace gets too hot. 

 As to steam heat, it is by far the more 

 expensive to install, there is always 

 danger of the pipes leaking, and the 

 pipes must all be carefully drained in 

 the fall to prevent them from freezing. 



While California growers make a 

 common practice of bleaching their 

 nuts, this practice has not become prev- 

 alent in the Oregon districts, the north- 

 ern public readily and eagerly taking 

 all of the Oregon output without re- 

 quiring that the nuts be bleached. 

 Though all of the California crop is put 

 through the bleaching process, as long 

 as the northern crop is so readily dis- 

 posed of without being bleached, Ore- 

 gon growers do not intend to do so, as 

 it makes an additional expense item and 

 is thought by some to be harmful to the 

 walnuts. 



After the nuts are dried thoroughly 

 they are graded, although little grading 

 has as yet been practiced in this state 

 with walnuts. However, as the yield 

 and demand for the Oregon nuts con- 

 tinues to increase, grading will become 

 as essential as with other Oregon crops, 

 the grading of the crop not only raising 

 the market standard, but will readily 

 repay the grower for the amount of 

 labor involved. 



The grading may readily be done by 

 the use of any of a large number of 

 mechanical devices on the market. In 

 California a common practice is to 

 place the nuts in large meshed trays, 

 shaken by machinery, the graded nuts 

 falling out and being conveyed by 

 means of belts to the sacking room, 

 the established grades there being 

 grade one, composed of nuts larger than 

 one inch in diameter, grade 2, of nuts 

 between three-fourths and one-inch in 

 diameter, and the culls. 



After the grading process, the nuts 

 are sacked, the usual container being 

 the gunnysack, of the type commonly 

 used for wheat, and holding about fifty 

 pounds of nuts, although other types 

 of containers are often used. When 

 the nuts are graded No. 1, extra fancy, 

 they are often put up in cartons and 

 sold to high class trade. The cartons 

 usually hold one or two pounds of 

 nuts, and if attractively put up and 

 labelled, are valuable in advertising 

 one's product. Such an article seldom 

 fails to attract the public, and invari- 

 ably results in a repeated demand for 



the " " brand of walnuts, grown 



at " " by " ." The car- 

 tons should be neat and attractive and 

 plainly labelled with the grower's 

 name, address and guarantee on the 

 outside. 



Prices received for the sale of the 

 nuts on the market vary widely, from 

 a quotation of thirteen cents for sec- 



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