The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-06-21
MONEY m PEANUTS.
Ten MILLION Dollars sDsnt Annually IN
America FOR This Fruit

AmeFltA ApI Ams AEoA-
a mar incidentally asked a street
xender Il his peannis were frst-class,
and the response to the inquiry was
surprising, says The Chicago Tribune.
NO said the vender. You do not
get first-class peanuts in this country
in this way. The best peanuts r used
for other purposes. They are made
into meal and gTits by scientific men,
and in Germany they are prepared for
sick people in the hospitals. The pea
nuts you get in candy are the very
poorest grade. And some Of the burnt
almonds which you get are nothing
more than f~ourth-rate peanuts"
Where did the peanut come from?"
From Central and South America.
They grow there in long pods, and the
pods contain from four to five kernels.
They were carried to the old world in
the early days, and in the seventeenth
century they constituted the chief
staple of Africa. You will find IL you
look it up that the slave dealers of
Africa in those days used to load their
oAAABo VIII peanuts W UC uoCa d AOOA
for their human cargoes. The negroes
who were imported from Africa to this
country brought over the peanut and
they were scattered and first grew in
Virginia. And now this country Is rails
ing the crop, and, owing to American
shrewdness, the nut is ground and used
for various purposes and shipped all
v the world.
Il reckon you know, the vender con-
tinued, that peanuts in a certain condl-
ton are more nutritious than beef.
When specially prepared they rank
with beans and peas. The peanut is
said to contain 20 per cent. of protein
and 40 per cent. of fat. WHAT'S known
as peanut meal contains SO per cent. of
protein and s per cent. of fat. 1t is the
cheapest of all food materials"
In 1861 and 1865 peanut oil was man
ufactured largely in four southern
states, and was employed as a substi-
tute for olive oil. In fact, one drug
gist admitted, some of the ''olive oil"
sold now in this country is nothing
more than peanut oil. Nearly all Of the
olive oil sold in the United States is
mixed with part of the peanut. Pea
nuts furnish from 80 to so per cent. of
the weight of their kernels in oil.
Sometimes peanut or is used for light
ing, and again it is utilized to advan-
tage in the making of soap and as a
lubricant in machine shops.
The American peanut is larger and
better favored than any other, but it
does not contain so much oil as the AZ
rican nut, The ''cake" which is left
after extracting the oil makes excellent
feed for cattle, and is used very largely
for that purpose in Germany, where it
sells for $50 TO s33 a ton. This country
owes to Germany the suggestion it has
received in relation to the edible quail
ties of peanuts, and the department of
agriculture is now investigating the
method of Germany in the way in
WHICH that country has handled the
nut, and the result is to be published
by the department for the benefit of
the farmers.
NO run BeanS n hihEs
Speaking of the boy king of Spain, q
correspondent of the Congregational
ist says: There are many points in
the court etiquette Of Spain that make
it hard to be a boy king and harder
still to be the boy king'sloving mother.
As he was born a king little Alfonso
had to have a household of his own,
with his own suite of rooms. He cannot
even dine at the same table with his
mother. nor can she perform for him
those tender little offices that mothers
delight in and children find so comfort
ing. The little king has to go through
with tedious state receptions. which
weary him sadly and sometimes try his
childish patience beyond endurance.
On : at a grand church function the
baby sat upon his nurses knee, all
dressed in white, as patient as a baby
could be. A bishop had been holding
forth for a good hour, and everybody
was doubtless waiting for him to close.
At last the little royal listener could
bear it no longer, for he is a high
strung little man, and with a glance of
indignant despair in the direction Of
the talker, he clutched at his party
white hat and cast it upon the floor.
When his mobiles were paying their
compliments to him on his second
birthday their king entertained himself
by jumping up and down the steps of
his throne"
The Affirmative Negative.
A couple of deputies belonging IN