The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-05-11
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The peanut ness s large enough
II Be interesting Successfully ealti-
yated they are more profitable than cot
ton or tobacco, and fhs farmers of Vir-
ainia, North Caplina, Florida and Ten
neaee are turning sheir attention 70
them. Virginia i the greatest peanut
state, and from the counties On the
James river there are yearly Supplied 70
northern markets thousands Of bushels.
These nuts are large and 81 fine favor.
From North Carolina comes the smaller
Of Africa peanuts, and sons are real
" imported from Africa. These are
small and oil inferior flavor. Formerly
the cleaning, Smelling and sorting were
done b. hand, but non machinery does
the work better.
4 pay for the nuts ID the market
from si to $50 4 bushel,n said MI.
YeIlines, q Washington street dealer, to
Sun reporter, Sand i buy most Of them
Of commission merchants Oil the wharyes,
for 4 find il does not pay ID ship them
myself When the nuts come to us they
are as you Zee them III this bag, dirty,
mixed with wines, many Of them Light
Or broken, shucks and meats altogether.
Now, il you will come up stairs + ii show
you the process through which We put
Them
/ There vas On the fourth floor Of the
establishment large wooden cylinder,
ten feet long, four feet ii diameter and
open at the ends. IL was revolving
rapidly, and into one end from large
hopper was pouring steady stream of
dirty peanuts, and from the other end d
stream of clean ont the dirt rubbed
off BY attrition. They fell into hopper
il the Aoor and disappeared.
There isa fan just below the door,
said Mr. Vellines, which blows all the
dirt, and chat, and vines, and shucks
out from the nuts, and the mass passes
into bags below. The nuts run down to
d travelling wooden apron below, where
they are assorted by girls. Before We
60 down want you to see the shelters.
We used to pay from FIVE to ten cents
4 pound to have them shelled BY hand,
and 4 shelter could not average more
than fifty pounds 4 day. Now We can
shell twenty-four hundred pounds day
for a cent a pound. Here are The she'll
ers. Into these hoppeEa are put alI the
poorer and smaller nnts, and, as You zee,
they pass into the shelter, which cuts
up the shells. Meats and shells pass down
to the floor below, where they are zepa-
rated by sah. The meats are then
passed through graduated sleeves, worked
by hand, and assorted into Eve different
sizes, that bring from Eve to fourteen
cents pound. Without this asserting
they would only sell for seven cents q
| pound. we shan soon do an tie assort-
Ing BY machinery
on the third door four italian girls
stood before TIE travelling apron, and, as
Tie nuts came into view, they deftly
/ picked out the bad ones, and The larger
stream Of good nuts passed down out Of
sight. on the floor below there was 4
large inclined table, upOn which stream
of large bright peanuts was falling.
Three Girls picked out the few bad nuts
that had ESCAPED the fingers Of the girls
above. The nuts passed from the table
into large sacks. and were ready for
sale,
The poorer ones that you see the girls
picked out above said Mi. yellines,
are again taken Tip stairs and shelled
ana sold to the confectioneEg. The meats
are good, Of course. The shells are
ground int small pieces, ana We sell
every Bit from cent Ia cent and ahalf
j pound. They 90 ID Philadelphia ana
Baltimore, and think sFe used iii mak-
ing feed ior there Fl good dsal ef mn
triment III peanut she'll Here point
ine to i furnace, IL where We roast tha
peanuts. That cylinder holds ten bush
els. After The nuts are thus cleaned
and assorted, the BEST ssh for from nj CO
S.. so d bushels
WHAT PR0T0FLAsM Is.-The term
protoplasm, from first ana form, IA ya
Professor HaAckel, applied to the sup
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