, 1892-07-09

and securing greater ease and comfort in
picking,
The picking is done by hand, no machine
as yet having been invented to successfully
do this work. Pickers receive about twelve
cents per bushel with board AMI fourteen
cents without. A rapid picker can earn
from eighty-four to ninety-eight cents per
day; al average picker not more than sixty
cents,
The pods containing immature nuts are
called ''saps; p the empty pods are called
pops" The latter are worthless and should
be excluded. Some use may be made of the
''saps," but particular care should be exer-
cised to keep them separate from the perfect
peas, as the sale of these mixed woald
bring the price far below the .mean average
value per bushel, than if each were aold
separately.
To realize maximum profits on your labor,
good Judgment is required in marketing. It
is very important that the nuts be carefully
prepared for sale. "Pops' should be dis
carded entirely; 'saps'' and the diseolored pods
should be separated from the others. Failure
to do this will cut into the profits to a sur
prising extent.
Dealers insist in having clean, bright,
pods, and if they are not in that condition
they deduct the cost of cleaning from the mar
ket price, and, consequently the producer
loses the profit realised by the peanut mills
for the performance of this labor. The i'm
p~ortance Of marketing clean pods is better
appreciated when it is known that they COM
mand five to six cents more per bushel.
Mr.. B. w. Jones, furnishes the following
description of a machine for cleaning peanuts
invented by the planters iii his state.
ga cylinder as large as a -four barrel is
formed by mailing narrow Stats of plank to
two circular pieces Of timber. The Stats are
put q little way apart. bnt not far enough for
the pods to slip through when the cylinder is
turned. A piece of timber runs l~engthwise
through the center of the cylinder, the ends
of this project about q foot, and serve as an
axel on which to turn it. A crank is attached
to one or both ends of the axel. Two pieces
Of scantling are fastened together in the shape
Of an X, one for each end, and these are held
upright by having pieces nailed on horizontal
ly from one to the other. Several stats on the
cylinder are fastened together to form a door,
and this is attached to the cylinder by hinges
and fastened with q button.
THE peanuts are poured into the cylinder
two or three bushels at 9 tIme-and it is
made to revOlve slowly until the earth and all
the litter have fallen out"
The nuts are now ready to be bagged, and
care should be taken not to crush them. as
disfgured pods do not meet with ready sale
The prices are subject to the same infuen-
oes as are the prices of other commodities.
First class nuts seldom bring less than seven
~ five cents or more than $l,50 per bushele
The total cost for production per bushsl is
about forty cents. 1t is thus seen that profits
range from 100 to 400 per cent In view of
the possibilities Of so great a profit expert
ments in their production on a larger scale
are .warrantable.
The name of the more important varieties
are the white" "Rod," "Guber, =" Bunch"
and Spanish
The "White'i is grown largely if not OK
olusively, i'll Virginia, and is the most impor-
tant of the commercial varieties bI ing
ing the top prices in the markets. The vines
spread out on the ground and are from two
and one half to four feet in diameter, bear
ing from 100 to 100 pods to . vine contain
ing two or three kernels each.
The RED" is the leading variety grown in
Tennessee. It resembles, in growth Of
vine, the White but differs from the latter
in that the nut is Of reddishbrown color in.
stead of pure white, and in favour is not 80
bland and sweet. The pods of the "Red," or
Tennessee variety, are larger than the White
containing as a rule, four kernels. H.
The "Guber" is grown in various sections
throughout the South, but principally in