The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Now Declared To Be the Best Substi. ute for Meat Ever Discovered.

From the New York Press.
 All honor and success to the president of Aurora college, who is going to live on peanuts for 60 days. Such a man Is better than million ordinary physicians. The peanut is a much under-rated gift tof God to the human race. It might be used in 90 different ways. If there is a better food--name it. George Francis Train thrived on 1t for many years. He ate practically nothing else. and his complexion was-as the women would say-a dream In the uncivil war the "goober grabblers" were famed for stam- ina. They ate their "ground peas"-we have numerous names for the peanut raw and roasted. boiled, fried, parched and ground up in soup.
 From the peanut we produce peanut butter, peanut oil peanut paste, peanut brittle (the "pralne aux arachides" of Paris), peanut soup, peanut ointment ect. The plant makes excellent hay for cattle. The roots are fine for pigs. We are growing over 6,000 GOO bushels a year of thls once e-despised nut. About 4000,- GOO bushels are vended in the push carts and "other confeetions." The 'lowly pea nut" is fast coming to the front as staple. Not many years ago we used to plant about three bushels to the acre. and in the fall turn the hogs in to root How fat the porkers did getl And how sweet was the neat
 The "lowly peanut is known in the United States as the ground pea, goo
 ber,' earth nut, Manila nut, jur nut, and
 pindar The shells are fbrous and would make excellent paper. But they all go to waste. The peanut came from Bra gil via Africa. It is very rich food { in protein and fat. and cannot be eaten too freely. About two ounces a day for 90 days ought to satisfy any man. More than that would sicken the stomach, as a quail day for 30 days will do.
 Millions of people who buy cents worth of roasted peanuts now and then from the peddler with the tin whistle, the charcoal fire the condensed steam, and the two-whecled cart, have no idea of the quaint bit of natures handiwork in thep reduction of the-what shall we call 1t? Is 1t nut vegetable or q fruit? It grows on a vine about IS inches high It flowers like d cotton stalk. The fruit Is born in the open air. when IL is very young and tender the stripe sup porting it bends down and delicately thrusts the youngster into the sand-loam (the only soil fitted for this growth.
 where 1t natures. Could anything be more interesting?
 This is not cyclopedici I relate facts, because l used to grow goobers. When about half matured the pods are soft and when chewed exude deliciously palatable milk much like the milk of the ! cocoanut You can masticate hull and
 
 all The raw goober has taste so diff ferent from the roasted peanut that
 you could not with your eyes closed, l believe the two to be the same. me | hull, or shell, we do not eat The skin
 the thin brown covering of the con
 tents of the pod, or hull, or shell-is 1 wholly indigestibe Discard that. Eat | the goober in a state of absolute nudi- 1 ty. and you will find it the best sub l stitute for meat you ever tasted. And
 no one can honestly call you vegetarian for doing 1t.
 After an intimate acquaintance with goobers extending over a period of some thing less than century, l can honestly give this testimonial as to character: I have never seen a wormy one. Occa- sionally you will come across one moldy. shriveled. acrid and even offensive to the taste; but never a worm or insect seems to penetrate it's reticulated pod. shall expect to see at an early date from Bat tie Creek peanut flour, peanut meal, rolled peanuts, shredded peanuts, pea nut-pod ingestine. peanut-skin emollent, etc. All the by-products should be im- rnanselv valuable