Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-10-23
PEANuTs PROMISE MUCH.
Contain More Nutriment than Beef
Steak Fine Oils Extracted.
(washington Cor. The state,

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Our old friend the peanut. ground
pea, pindar, goober. groun' tut, is
pronounced by the Department of
Agriculture here as a most valuable
food for man and beast, cotaining
more nutriment in proportion than
beefsteak, and capable of bt ing
made into ell kinds OF good things.
Peanut oil, known In the laborato-
ries as "arachide OIL" is superior In
many respects to olive oil. All In all
the peanut, groInd pea, etc., is a
pretty good institution, and it, is
going to come some OF these days
into its own.
The furtherapce. of peanut oil man
ufacture in the United states is the
text of an interesting report submit
ted by Consul D.I. Murphy from Bor-
deaux, France. Among other things
Mr.. Murphy states that the annual
valne OF the peanut crop in Tonnes
see, Virginia and South Carolina is
between ss,0o0,G0o and s10,o0G,-
600. From these, figures the accu-
racy Of which Mr.. Murphy does not,
however, assert, he draws the conclu-
sion that a very profltablt Industry
might be established in the manu-
facture of arachide oil, if such an
industry is not already In existence
In the United States. Upon this he
says:
"Arachide oil, when we'll clarified
and fresh, is preferred to the best
olive oil for table use by many peo-
pie In this part of france. In Bor-
deaux the sales or arachide oil ex-
ceed those OF all other oils. In fact
they are almost as large as the sales
or all others combined. Over 5o.-
200 tons of peanuts are brought to
this port every year from the French
possessions In Africa, the average
annual value of the peanut. or ara.
chide Oil manufacture in this city be-
ing over $2,0O0,00O.
An Excellent Table Oil.
Not only Is arachide a most EXCEL
lent table oil, palatable, nutritious.
and healthful, and very much cheap
er than olive oil, but it is employed
almost exclusively in the manufac-
ture of high class compound lard
For cooking sardines before packing
In olive oil, am told, 1t is unsur-
passed. The best quality of arachide
OIL Is selling wholesale at about so
or S2 cents per gallon a. this time.
and lower grades at from 55 to 66
cents
THE process of manufacturing the
OIL is simple, the nuts being pressed
In the same kind of presses used for
cotton seed. The oil is clarified IN
the same manner as olive oil. that ia
by fltering through layers of carded
cotton, the quality depending largely
upon the number of filterings and
the degree Of Qualification attained.
The residium Is pressed into cakes.
making an excellent and nutritious
food for cattle. The cake is selling
at from Is to 18 francs per 100
kilos, or from $3.50 to s3.47 for
every 220 pounds.
There 10 not particle of waste in
the manufacture. The 81 ellis are fine
ly ground, mixed with common mo-
lasses, pressed into cakes, and used
as cattle food, not so good, It ia true.
as the cake made from the residium
OF the, nuts, but still nutritious and
selling for about one-third it's price.
TO make fuel which burns we'll and
gives great heat, the powdered shells
are mixed with coal dust and pressed
into blocks.
The records of the Bordeaux con-
sulate show that the exports of ara
chide oil to the United States for the
past five years amounted to S115.-
22O."
Interest in the food value OF pea
nuts Is heightened by the recent an
nouncement from the Department OF
Agriculture, one of whose chemists
has discovered that ten cents worth
of peanuts contain more nutriment
than two pounds of beef steak. The
department is making other experi-
ments with view to ascertaining
the possibilities of the peanut and
the oil extracted from it,