Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — The Chestnut Crop. [ARTICLE]

The Chestnut Crop.

“Those we get here,” said a commission merchant, “are the Virginia nuts; they are the finest and largest of all, though possibly the ones grown in New Hampshire and porthern Massachusetts have an even sweeter flavor. The latter, however, are smaller. The great chestnut-producing area of j Virginia includes portions of Rappahannock, Green, Nelson, Madison, and I Amherst counties, up to the foothills pn the south side of the Blue Ridge. The nuts are mostly picked by children, from whom they-are bought by j the country grocers and traders, who i in turn sell them to the wholesale men Jike ourselves, on commission or otherwise. Enormous quantities of them pre sent to Norfolk, where they are passed over long sieves, with small poles at the beginning and bigger ones : farther on, by which they are assorted 'according to size, to be subsequently 1 scaled in price accordingly, for sale to the jobber. who sells by the bag to the retailer.—Washington Star.