. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. NUT HANDLING. 43 part of a Texas town ^ awaiting the arrival of buyers. From the local biners they are sent in car lots to the larger markets, principally in San Antonio, Xew Orleans, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincin- nati, Buffalo, and Xew York, whence they are distributed to smaller cities. CLEANING, POLISHING, AND TINTING. As the harvesting season extends over a period of two to three months, a large proportion of the nuts become considerably dis- colored and their surfaces more or less covered with particles of soil. To remed}^ this con
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. NUT HANDLING. 43 part of a Texas town ^ awaiting the arrival of buyers. From the local biners they are sent in car lots to the larger markets, principally in San Antonio, Xew Orleans, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincin- nati, Buffalo, and Xew York, whence they are distributed to smaller cities. CLEANING, POLISHING, AND TINTING. As the harvesting season extends over a period of two to three months, a large proportion of the nuts become considerably dis- colored and their surfaces more or less covered with particles of soil. To remed}^ this condition the nuts are rotated in cylinders of several hundred pounds capacity; the rubbing together in the cylinders re- moves the dirt and cleans and polishes the surfaces of the nuts, and the}' are then known as •" polished " pecans. During the polishing. Fig. 25.—A pecan crackery. process the natural rich appearance of the nuts is lost. Another common process by which wild pecans are jDrepared for market con- sists in the immersion of the nuts in a reddish dyeing solution, after which they are dried and polished by the method just described. The latter operation is known as " tinting" or " ; Nuts thus treated may be readily detected by their bright, unnatural color, which is easily removable with a moistened finger. CRACKING. The invention of machinery for the cracking of pecans without l)reaking the kernels is undoubtedly more largely responsible for the marked increase in the demand for pecan products during recent 251 ^San Saba, Tex. Photographed Nov. 12, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. Washington Govt. Print. Off
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