d be directly related to the adaptability of this variety
to a climatic zone or to a system of cultivation or to variation in any
other environmental condition.

Mr. Weber: How do the other members of the committee feel about it? What
is their preference? It seems to me that if you are unanimous, all we
have to do is approve your report and leave out the discussion.

Dr. MacDaniels: We are not unanimous. Mr. Reed, who I regret is not
here, rather doubts that any kind of schedule is either possible or
desirable. Would you think that is a fair statement, Mr. Stoke?

Mr. Stoke: Yes.

Dr. MacDaniels: Mr. Chase believes that a schedule is both possible and
desirable and that we should work along the general ideas advanced in
the paper on judging schedules published in the last volume of the
report. As I understand Mr. Stoke's position, he would go along with
that in general with possibly the addition of the factors of taste and
color. Is that right?

Mr. Stoke: Yes, taste and color for domestic use.

Dr. MacDaniels: I have already stated my position. I feel that unless we
confine the schedule to characteristics that can be weighed or measured
successfully its value and usefulness will be little.

A Member: Dr. MacDaniels, if a man has a $20,000 machine for cracking
walnuts and he has a choice between the Thomas walnut and a good wild
one, he will pay a little bit more for Thomas walnuts, will he not?

Dr. MacDaniels: The question raised is that if a cracking plant which
cracks thousands of pounds can get more kernels out of a hundred pounds
of Thomas nuts or any other grafted variety, would the operators pay
something more for them? I think undoubtedly they would, but would they
pay enough of a differential over the wild nuts to make it worthwhile to
the grower? I don't know.

Dr. Crane: If you take pecans which are our best example, 95 per cent of
all nuts produced in the United States are marketed as shelled kernels,
and there is a very substantial price differential between seedlings and
budded pecans, and the crackers will pay the difference based on the
yield of kernels. That is their only interest. The thickness of shell,
how well it cracks, or any other factor is of no importance. If the
kernels are there, they will get them out.

Dr. MacDaniels: That is the crux of this whole matter. Are we interested
in developing varieties for cracking in which we care little about the
size of the pieces recovered or abo