The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23

peanut, the small compact nut Of North
Carolina, the Spanish" peanut, but the
one best suited to the Southern states is
the Florida peanut. II Is a medium be-
tween tho Virginia and North Carolina
and does well on almost any soil thai is
not too heavy. A a feed for horses, COWS
and hogs there is absolutely nothing they
like better or that Will fatten them as
quickly. Two acres of peanuts will feed
q horse twelve months and keep him seal
fat and he viii need nothing else except
Ten ears Of corn per DAY while at work.
They furnish both grain and forage and
stock never allow a sprig to be lost.
Where vines have been fed too freely
horses or mules viii actually pull them
out of the mud, where they have laid for
weeks and eat every Yestige obey can
find.
The rapidity with which hogs grow and
fatten on them one would hardly believe
who had not observed II. ! have turned
pigs into my field weighing fifteen to
twenty pounds gross that Melted sixty 20
eighty-fve pounds in ten to twelve weeks.
Germany imports COO G00l 100 pounds of
peanuts fem Africa every year. They eX-
tract the oil and use it for every purpose
for which we use lard or olive oil and
claim it is equal if not superior to either
The meal and hulls are used as food for
stock and FIR ferdlizing and is equal to
the cotton seed m cal in every way. If our
cotton Sc oil mills would arrange to eX-
tract the oil from them, which they could
do at little additional expense and the
ia mers would suppy the demand Cotton
seed oil is an aiulterant of lard and It's
compounds would have TO seek other
places to fill, because the peanut oil
would be so far superior TO 1t that II
would inevitably supersede that product
Five months are required for the crop
to mature after p anung, The ground is
to be broken ana ail off in rows three
and a half to four feet wide with a six
inch shovel and the nuts dropped is
inches apart in the DIN, one or TWO kerr
nails to each hill and covered with the
same pillow. After they are up they should
be hoed and then plowed with a Pinch
sweep. One more working Of the same
kind, except with a larger sweep, is all
they need.
In gathering the crops in Florida far
mers use what they call a finder hook y
with six pRongs s inches long, with which
the vines are pulled up After laying in
the sunshine two days they are hauled
in and housed. In Virginia and North
Car DINA a long joint is attached to turn
plow from which the mould board is re-
moved. This joint is run under each side
of the row cutting the top, root and loos-
enlng the sell Two days later they are
taken up and stacked in small stacks
around fence rails, etc. and left for ten
days before housing them. BY IT, latter
method a greater proportion of ii q nuts
are secured and the nuts are whittier than
by the first method. If farmers could be
induced to give this much-abused crop a
trial they would no more think of farm
ing without a crop of peanuts than a crop
of corn.
Persons in any wise interested in the
subject of peanut culture should write
to the Agricultural Department Wash
lngton, D. c., for bulletin No. 25-"Pea-
nuts; their culture and uses" In that
they will find every statement of mine
substant ated ard much other iuforma-
lion of value that cannot be comprehend
ed in an article like this.
b. P. Wilson, NJ. D.