The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-04-11
AMERICAN PEANUTS.
Large Quantities Shipped to Mar
seilles for Oil Making.
The Nuts Are ExtenagveIy Used in
Europe and America ns a SUBJ
stitute for olives AIznonds
and Chocolate.

O1e Of the most inferes sting incidents
D the oil trade of Afarseilies, during
tie past six months, has been the re-
sipt of several hundred tons of sheAed
peanutA freA this country for the
great cii trade cf that city, They ara
The first peanuts ever exported from
the United States 10 the Oh mills ot
that city, lit has been q surprise to
tie oil trade Of Europe, for It has al
ways been understood that the cost
Of labor in the United States would
prevent our competition with the Airs
can and Indian exporters. IT. has a-so
been asserted that our peanut is not
SO rich ia oil as that brought from
Africa or India; but our consul at Mar
seiiles writes that tie quality Of the
American NUS has proved to be very
satisfactory and that there win he a
market FOR as many as can be shipped
from the southern states, states the
New York Sun.
The European manufacturers Of
vegetable oils, and particularly those
of Alarseilles. consume enormous
Quantities Of peanuts which are
br3ught BY the ship'oad, mostly from
the west coast Of Africa and India.
This nut, very rich in OIL is ground
every year By millions Of bushels in
the old world 1t has come 10 be used
largely a IS a substitute for olive oil,
which it very much resembles in taste
and smell. In fact, great quantities
Of It are now used as olive Gil by con-
sumers, who Go not know the differs
ence. Consul Thomas, OF Marseilles,
wrote o the state department awhile
60 that great many people in the
Cnited States are using peanut OH for
table purposes, under the impression
that it IS olive oil
The African peanut sometimes gets
TO this country in quantities. Two
years ago a very large manufactures
of confectionery ia the west was dis
sati-fied with he quotations which he
had obtained from peanut dealers at
home for the nuts he wished to use
in the making OF "burnt Almonds pea
nut candy and the cheaper grades of
chocolates. severa, months passed,
and finally one of the dealers who
thought the manufacturer must be
getting very hard mp for peanuts,
wrote to him. He was informed by re-
turn mail that the manufacturer had
all the peanuts he wanted, a s he had
bought a schooner load from Africa.
We pay to the owners of peanut
stands and others who retail this nut
about S10.o00,O0O a year for the 1000 00C
| bushels we eat; and we do the shellina
besides. Southern farmers also feed
them 10 their hogs and make hay Of
the vines. During the civil war, when
the southern states were very hard
up for oil, there were at least foul
mills in that part of the country man
ufacturing peanut oil which was usel
as q lubricant for locomotives anl
spinning machinery and by housewife;
as substitute for lard in bread anG
pastry.
1t is certain, however, that oil ex
traction from peanuts viii never be
come an established industry in thi!
country unless the growers raise suf
fcient quantities to keep the mills al
work and can sell them al price low
enough TO compete with cotton ant
other oil seeds that now control thi
market. Most planters seem to thinl
that the supply is now greater than th'
demand. They would probably be sur
prised to hear that the amount the.
raise is not sufficient to support an oil
; making industry The fact is, how
ever, that nearly the whole America
crop would be consumed by two mills
) An oil mill of fair capacity will grim
$4,000 tons of peanuts in year. More
over oil mills could not afford to pa
the price demanded for the best stocl
and the third or fourth grade nut
probably would not keep more thai
one mill going for six months.