The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-11-18
PECAN FACTORY IS REAL ADJUNCT
TO BUSINESS INTERESTS OF CITY

Did you ever visit a u factory"
1t is interesting, ana you should visit
one at the first opportunity.
You would be surprised first, 10
come face to face with the fact that
there airs as many nuts in this coun-
try as you will see there.
This does not include the human
nut-real persons, in large quantities.
The factory Of the Oklahoma Pecan
Farms Company, is located on South
Washington street n is the scene
Just now of mid.season activity. II
had been sail during the early fall
there was TO be a small crop OF
pecans this year. but the harvest Is
the industry. Wagons were crowded
around the factory early his rom
ing. farmers bringing in pecans by
the wagon load, weighing them in at
the receiving door and receivins thslr
checks. This industry is now paying
out hundreds Of dollars every day
for Int gathered ~ the mcn, women
allb illih th Va ~ XIV 'tJOi"''b
counties and is receiving orders and
cash from all Parts of the United
States, Canada n England. hi
foreign money, coming a this time,
is a great benefit to the farmers Of
the county, and the enterprise and
hustle of the manager of the plant,
Walter f.. Lindsay, who is as busy as
any mar in the city, handling orders
and buying nuts.
As an indication of the scope Of the
pecan business, while the reporter
was sitting in the office a young
man came in and wanted to buy
some nuts.
Rate to Liverpool
What will be the rae on a pack
age of nuts 10 Liverpool" he asked
Mr.. Lindsay, who was in the office.
The Tostal rate was cooked up and IT
was 'ound that a ten pound package
could be delivered in Liverpool, Eng
land for less than 40 cents per pound.
Il saw your advertisement in the
Ardmoreite last night, stating you
could send nuts TO England, so J
Ndlllt " otiid oViiiC w Aht YIN poNN
in Liverpool"
On the third floor of the large build
ing is the asserting room n the
cracking room. The asserting of thu
nuts is done by machinery, each nut
falling into the bin where it joins
hundreds of pounds of its own size
and grade. 1t then goes to the crack
...x .,.,Is,, r,I.nrn g;v If. onlyar IN.
Grated by electricity, crack twelve pc
cans at each stroke of the machine
Young women sit at the ihDuths oil
this machine, wher the nuts are deliv
cred into cartons ready for shipment
either by freight, express or parcel
post. No humanA hands touches the
meat of the nuts after it is cracked.
as all the asserting of the kernel is
lone by machinery. The only time an
operators hand goes into a box is Il
pick out a bad nut.
The Packing Room
The packing room is on this flo0
where the cracked nuts are in each
package inspected before being
wrapped for shipment. In his roon
the meat of the nut is assorted into
boxes of half nuts and smaller, I
in the final grading the meat looks
like meal,' every particle being used.
even the meal is sold as chicken feed
and 1t is said is very fine.
In q room on the second floor ten
young ladies are busy picking out the
meat as the nuts come down an ele
vator to them from the cracking room.
Here the first grading is done, and
=. the bulls separated from the kernel
Hulls Utilized
Even the hulls are utilized. being
ground and sold as floor sweep, and
makes an excellent quality.
The factory is the best equipped In
the entire country, and has the mos
modern machinery of any in the
| southwest. In a large warehouse
there is plenty Of storage room for
twenty cars of pecans. and this room
is well filled now. Two entire car loat
shipments have already been made by
the company this season. although the
season is just beginning. Hundreds