The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27

i Tie BOOu nay WIFI smaller STEMS,
cut into about fouH-inch lengths.
J! and delivered into a pile for the
press to bale. The owner of tie
machine charges ten cents per
bushel to pick the nuts off of the
4 vines, but the work could be done
| cheaper if the crops were larger
! and so much time were not los:
/ in going from one field to another,
for while the machine costs from
$500 to $500 it picks from four hun
dred to five hundred bushels of
peanuts a day with not over three
| hands to attend to it, besides those
hauling thes hooks to the machine.
The hay is baled and brings SIS
| per ton. The mill at Gloster is
| paying one dollar per bushel for
| peanuts delivered there.
The crop was spotted around
| there-both on account of the wea-
Their conditions and the Ignorance
Of the people on growing peanuts,
for few of them had even tried
| row or two Of them in the garden
| for the children to eat. However,
| from what [ can learn from. talk
ing to farmers in their fields, where
they were gathering and picking
"eanuts. it seems that about thirty
! five bushels to the acre was the av-.
GRACE crop-that some only raised
| twenty, while fifty bushels was the
| highest yield. One man near Cen
tervUle raised 50 bushels to the acre
on POO acres and saved ton of
SIS hay on every acre.
Several oil mills in this terrific
ry will more than likely make pea
| nut oil next season if the peanuts
| are raised. and | do not think that
| tho price will be over dollar per
| bushel for several years to come.
The United Government statistics
show that the United States pro-
duced t2,5O0,OOO bushels last year
and the custom house receipts show
| that 100000 bushels were lnl-
ported from foreign countries.
With a yield of 80 bushels per
acre it will require 100000 acres
to produce the amount OF peanuts
that we are buying abroad, and with
fast increasing home consumption
an over production is not probable
for a decade. The oil is superior
to all other oils except pure olive
oil. for salad dressing. is better
than cotton seed oil for cooking
purposes. and the cake is unexcell-
ed for hog food and just as good
for cattle as cotton seed meal.
To Geo. H. Barney, banker, large
merchant and cotton oil man, IS thfS
state and the whole South lndebted
for installing peanut oil machinery
at Gloster-the only plant Of its
kind in the United States. II
some small cost he could have sod
OFF hie holdings there and gon"
where The boil weevil did not both
or hut instead. be stayed to fight,
not his battles. but his people's. for
he was so comfortably fixed in This |
worlds goods that he was i'nmnr.,
from the ravages Of the dreaded
pest. The peanut oil business is
a success and will grow with earn
succeeding year.
pckers that break the hull should
not be used as the nuts get rancid
when the shells are cracked or bro
ken and YOU cannot sell to the oil
millc Tho White Spanish peanuts
AFRO The only nnes that the mills
will b,lv as they contain more OF. |
thon any other variety.
The DEPARTMENT of agriculture
nrnr1ises to send peanut snecia- |
icf here as soon rs nossihle to ALL
dress tho people OF this county anil
1,,a notice If fho date will he pull
Iiehed nthe Rranron News
Samples Of the oil and tho caF-a
cen he seen at III Brandon Mrcan-
I'll Company. G. W. Taylor's. Pela |
hofrhie: and Berry Bros. Florence.
Those interested can write to ".
=. Rcattie II. S. Don't. Of Aaricu'-
t,lro. WASHINGTON p. c.. for Farm
ers' Bulletin No a56 on Peanlt Gull
fnre, ard get quite lot Of informa-
ton.
Tasf vcar his data the merchants
of Chester had bought 2A22 bales
of cotton this wear. 23s. The COM
nress this wear has handled 73o
bales usually 1000.
IT is time you were thinking q