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but if this grade is allowed to enter the channels of trade as 

 first-class nuts, they will certainly react on the industry with 

 disastrous results, and therefore should be eliminated. How- 

 ever, with low-grade varieties, such as the Eome, Mobile and 

 Nelson, it will not be feasible to hold them up to the cracking 

 test outlined above. These should be sold as low-grade nuts 

 or better sent to the crackery. 



It has not been thought feasible to fix a standard degree 

 for dryness for pecans. They give off and reabsorb moisture 

 with the changes of the atmosphere. For this reason, an exact 

 degree of dryness will be difficult to maintain. As long as 

 they are sufficiently dry to pass through the channels of the 

 market without deterioration and satisfactory to the con- 

 sumer, they may be regarded as in a legitimate condition. 



Most varieties of pecans are separated into three sizes — 

 number one, two and three — and given arbitrary trade names. 

 The National Nut Growers' Association proposed the following 

 names for grades, in order of size, beginning with the smallest : 

 ''(1) Standard, (2) Fancy, (3) Extra Fancy." ' Following 

 this system, the following groups and sizes of varieties were 

 proposed : 



*^ Group 1. — Nuts which will pass through a bore of 13/16 

 of an inch in diameter, but not through a bore 12/16 of an 

 inch in diameter, and all larger nuts of the same variety, 

 except when a third grade is to be used, shall be known as 

 ^ Fancy,' when of the following varieties: Alley, Aurora, 

 Bolton, Claremont, Colorado, Delmas, Eggshell, Frotscher, 

 Georgia, Hall, Haven, Kincaid, Moneymaker, Pabst, Presi- 

 dent, Randal, Russell, Sovereign, Stuart and Young. 



^Proceedings Nat. Nut Growers' Assoc, 1919, S2. 



