OREGON WALNUTS 



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DETAILS OF WALNUT CRAFTING 



Some growers make a practice of picking one day and 

 washing and starting drying the next. In the early morning of 

 the second day the nuts are washed. This is done to remove 

 dirt, mold, fiber, or any foreign material. Some of the small 

 growers have used ordinary churns ; others have placed the nuts 

 in large wooden trays, which are dipped in troughs of water 

 the trays being churned up and down in the water until the nuts 



