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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Buying Walnuts
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:08:23 -0400

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:14 -0400, you wrote:

>Growing up in Missouri in the late 50s/60s, we'd get 2 or 3 cents a pound,
>and use that to buy our Christmas presents. I think they'd maybe reached 5
>cents by the time I left home. Trucks and wagons would be lined up around
>the block on Saturday morning waiting for the huller to hull the nuts. Our
>hands would be black for weeks, and we 5 brothers and our cousins had many a
>walnut fight when things got boring. There'd be a 30' mound of hulls by the
>end of November in a good year. Good times :) Hammons Nut Company from
>Stockton, MO was, and still is as best I know, the only buyer of bulk black
>walnuts in the country. 12 cents a pound seems cheap now, accounting for
>inflation.
>
It sure does!

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
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