The Arizona sentinel., 1879-05-17
ARIZONA SENTINEL.
Peanuts

mic affairs of life is Yet but imperfectly
understood. They are now being largely
profitablY and most acceptably used III
the manufacture of substitute Tor th"'
healthy and hitherto often indlSpenS"0'0
gustatory garniture, olive OIL. An'J
nourishipg and healthful, and OF late
years have been abundant ana en9"p -
| H., ,,,orl,o,s and at the same time pro-
ttable 20 tie producer.
! It is stated that the City OF broiherly
Love requires for her use 2Oo,oOo push-
-. of nea1uts annually, which leads TO the
Inference that, with all their other merits
they are potential peacemakers, although
the fact that New York consumes humid
red or two thousand bushels more, might
incline undiscerning and censorious peo-
pie TO a contrary conclusion.
But coming down to the more serious
and bTlsiness-llke aspects of the peanut
power, we find its primary importance
in the potential interest it possesses for
sovereign tillers of the Southern soil. 1t
may be successfully raised in almost any
of the Southern States; and while there
was u considerable falling off in the
aggregate product of 1878, as compared
with 1877, there can hardly be a doubt
that it ought 70 be much more generally
cultivated than IL is. But even at the
present rate of production, we fiLd that
last years peanut crop in Tennessee Is
estimated at $4,000 bushels; while, in
his second annual report, Tie Virginia
Commissioner of Agriculture says of it:
" This is more important crop in the
State than is generally known of, its ag-
gregate value being about $500, 600. Best
des this, what nuts are left in the ground
after digging are eagerly sought after by
hogs, which the producers of this crop
always turn in on their fields after the
peanuts are removed, and they are found
to contribute much to the fattening of
hogs. The vines, if the nuts are dug
before FROST make good hay, which COWS
eat freely"
The peanut interest of North Carolina,
which produces SO many more of them
than any other State that they are almost
looked upon as specially with her, is
one of her great sources of revenue
lin fact, one of her great industrial and
progressive forces.
A prophet of the peanut, writing some
time since, ia the Florida Mirror, after
expressing the opinion that there is nc
doubt as to the peanuts becoming "a
national delicacy," says: 1T requires no
prophetic vision to penetl ate the vista now
opening to the view of peanut growers,
for the TIME Is coming when they will be
taxed to their utmost abilities to supply
the demand. Every day peanuts are
gaining friends, and among them those
who have hitherto kept aloof, not believ-
ing it was genteel to eat peanuts, and not
understanding that good roasted peanut
is great delicacy. In fact, Il large
amount of prejudice has had to be over
come to prevail Oh the Dane, the Swede,
the German, the Englishman, the French
mau and others, to join with the American
in recognizing the good qualities of pea
nuts. This prejudice has been overcome,
and nothing SO clearly proves it as ref
port of Wilmington, y. G .ince 1874"
According to these figures the experts
for 1874 were 81, 562 bushels; for 1873,
Al, l3S bushers; 1876, 4, 455 bushels; 1877,
7O,570 bushels, aud Tor 1875, 104.2oS
bushels.
- That this traffic will continue to in
crease at all the shipping Joints. in the
same p-oportiOn, or even faster, must be
evident to every one on reading the circu-
lar of Messrs. Weller q Worth, 46 West
Second Street, Cincinnati, O., who state
that last year 76,503 bushels of peanuts
were received in their market alone.
The lands that will not produce twenty
bushels of corn will in peanuts yield from
forty to fifty bushels, and peanuts at from
fifty to seventy five cents per bushel pay
better than any other crop Lands that
produce tomatoes and cucumbers will
yield fine peanuts. In Tennessee peanuts
are planted in squares, sixteen inches
apart, and are plowed both ways. Plow-
ing sufficiently to keep them clear of
grass is all the cultivation required. In
harvesting the crop, the peanuts are
plowed and allowed to remain Il few hours,
then gathered up and put in small stacks
with the roots with the peanuts on them,
placed in the center These stacks are
allowed to remain about six weeks or IN
til thoroughly dried. The Virginia crop
this wear will reach 100000 bushels against
10000 last wear. The Tennessee crop
! 400 600 hucbaIs o.rainst 5OOOOO last wear