The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-24

r. T. Hancock, farmer, Scotland
Neck:
1. per cent more than last year.
2. 90 bushels.
a. 40 per cent less than last year.
M. Hoffman and Bro. merchants and
peanut buyers. Scotland Neck:
!. Is per cent larger than last year.
g Is bushels.
4. Is per cent less than last year. The
bulk of the crop will be about the same.
Mr.. J. w. Randolph, Of Enfield, Hall
fax county:
/. About 10 per cent over last year.
q Not to exceed 20 bushels.
a. Not over so per cent of last year.
Mr. +. r. Walker. editor of the News
Reporter, of Littleton, Halifax county,
sends us the following answers by Mr..
Whit Johnston.&
No. /. Increase of rs per cent
No. 2. Thirty bushels.
No. 3. No. Sixty per cent.
NO. a. Yes. SixtRsaeer* cent of last
years crop. =
Weldon. N. c., NM 2s-Halifax is
the county where most of the Spanish
Peanuts are grown, and in talking with
Halifax county farmers and buyers i
find that the crop this year will be about
one-half of what it was last year, says
Mr.. D. e. Stainbaek, of Weldon.
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Mr. w. A. Pierce, president of the
Carolina Peanut Company, says:
The acreage planted was about 10
per cent more, but this was greatly re-
duced by freshets in the river which
destroyed some of the best fields. Not
more than IS bushels were harvested
to the acre, and the crop was at least
IS per cent smaller this year than last.
Mr.. Paul Garrett, who not only makes
the best of wines, but farms on a large
scale and finds time to do his State a
lasting service when gold bricks are of
fered for sale, tells me that he multi
piled his acreage in Spanish peanuts this
year by two, and yet he failed to harv-
est as many bushels as he made last
year. He puts the crop at about so
per cent of what it was last year, and
says in talking with many other peanut
growers he learns that not more than
HAIL d crop call ne cOuHAcu Ou'
Mr. H. l.. Tillery, of Tillery, who
lives in the great peanut section of the
county, on the Tillery farm and next
door neighbor to the Caledonia farms,
says 1.-THE acreage is about one-fourth
less than last year in my section. Not
over rs bushels per acre were grown
and harvested, and l should say that the
percentage of the crop per acre is all of
80 per cent smaller than last year. An
other thing to be considered is this:
last year the State made 10000 bushels
of Spanish peanuts on their Roanoke
river farms, this year the State will get
about 5000 bushels, difference right
there of $4,000 bushels, which is a con-
siderable item.
Major j. w. Wilson, president Of the
Roanoke Navigation and Water Power
Company, and manager of the Mush
Island farms, where a large acreage of
peanuts were planted, was out of town
today, and could not be seen, but learn
that he estimates his crop at about two
thirds of what he expected.
Mr. Robert Ransom, son OF Senato,
Ransom and large grower OF peanuts,
says the average on good land is about
Is bushels to the acre, average about
the same as last year The crop is about
SO 1-3 per cent smaller per acre thai
last year.
Mr. David Bell, of Enfield, lawyer
and farmer, says the acreage in his sec
tion was about the same as last year.
Not more than 10 to Is bushels of pea
nuts were harvested per acre this year
on an averaged On his own lands he
made so to so bushels per acre last year.
and will only get about rs bushels to
the acre this year. The crop will not
average over go per cent of what it was
last year. Other farmers report about
the same conditions in their respec~
tive localities.