The new South-news., 1909-03-27

twenty-five pounds making a hushcl.
and a sack holding four bushels.
~ the cleaning establishments tho
nuts arr carried By elevators to the
top Of the fouF-story building. and
then hegin their Journey downward.
being cleaned aud assorted "a they
so. until az the bottom thcy arc run
into sacks. according TO their grade.
and the sacks are scwct ur. The pea
nuts are then ready 90 ship.
Peanuts arc cleaned hy tanning
and by abrasion. also by brushing
until they look bright. clean ard
smooth Finally. thoy aro carried
slowly along on endless belts. with
the pickers ranged on cithcr side.
to remove all small. defective or dis
colorcd nuts ny this process. whom
hagxed. they are ready for the trade.
having been cleaned. sorted and
graded.
The prime nuts are all shipped
away In the she'll 10 be roasted Thr
smaller nuts are shcilcd by machln-
cry and sold 10 confcctlonors. semr
of the Inferior nuts are made into
peanut butter and some are used for
making oil. Tho first pressure
brings an oil almost equal 20 that OBJ
taincd from olives. There ia little
doubt that. until recently. peanut OF
was often mixed with imported olive
oil. and the chemist alone could dis
cover the ndultera'Ion.
Tho second pressure Yields oil that
Is employed 70 make soap and luhri-
cants. Tho hull or sholl Is said TO bs
utilized for the bedding OF animals.
bn, this the writer has not secn II
the hulls are ground with tho cake
after tho oil has been pressed out OF
them the mixture can be fed TO cat
tie. II fl not however. a nrst class
food. being deficient In fat. ms might
be expected.
Taken as whole II will be seen
that both nut and vino are almost en-
tirely used up by man. little or Moth
Ing going Ia waste.
Tho larger portion of our fAmcri-
can, peanut crop Is grown In four
counties OF Virginia. one OF which.
Isle Of WIrh. County. loads the world
In peanut production. Ono frm IN
thla county handles about 100000
sacks lly--somcthing like a
million and n quarter bushels. In
doing this they send out moro than
forty carloads OF peanuts every week
during the greater part OF the year.,
Al another point In the peanut Soc
tion. Sunolk. Va. trains carrying
nothing but peanuts are often sent
out. but the city OF Norfolk handles
more OF the product than any city
In the world
It is believed that fully ton pcr
cent. more peanuts are consumed dur
ing the year OF a presidential election
than In intervening years, What this
| rotation II between presidents. poll
tics and peanuts doca not appear 4
have becn determined.
Az human food peanuts arc whole
some and nutritious and inexpensive
but little II definitely known con-
ccrning their digcxtibIlitv. They nrs
apparently more easily dlgcsted when
eaten with other foods than when
eaten alone. Attempts to Introduce
peanut soups. cakes. etc. into our
diet have not proved very snccsssful.
and the probability is that peanuts
will continue to be used ms n luxury
or for eating at odd times rather than
az a staple article of food
The following analysis Of peanut
kernels Ia taken from the Interna-
tional Cyclopacdia: Water. 10 pro-
| fein. 272: fat. 45.3; nitrogen freq
| extract. 1871; crude hbrs. 80: aah,
3.s--Tawrencs Trweil. in Mlchigaa
Tradesman. 49,