The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-29
MORE INTEREST IN PEANUTS
Local Mill will Take Seventy Tons per
Day and Pay Market Price.

Peanut growing is going to receiy,
a big boost in this locality this seasol
now that a local market is assured il
, fact the demand for more peanuts i,
eXtendin all over the southwest anC
only few days ago a syndicate OF
wealthy Cleveland, Ohio, business men
were in Texas and left an order for
$25OOO,O0O worth of them.
The fever struck this section of the
state few years ago, but owing to
the fact that the market for the crop
was very uncertain, few were raised.
Now w. f. Lindsey, manager of the
Ardmore Oil & Milling Company, who
has recently returned from Texas,
where he was taking notes of the pea
nut industry, states that he will be
prepared to take at least 70 tons per
day and will pay the regular market
price delivered to the mill, This has
stimulated local growers who will have
from ten acres up to fifty this year.
Walter Colbert received a letter from
Newton, Kansas from a man who
knows the conditions here, enclosing
suggestions as to peanut culture, urg,
ing the farmers to plant peanuts and
get away from the cotton habit.
Samples of peanut oil can be seen at
the rooms of the chamber of commerce
in this city
The following article from the Fort
Worth Star Telegram states concisely
what northern capitalists think of the
peanut as money crop.
Last week a Cleveland business ,
man, a member of the party looking !
Texas over left $25,OOO,OOO order to
be filled by the state at large.
viii Texas fill the order?
It's up to the farmers of the Conan
che country, the DeLeon country, the
country, Denison country,
East Texas, and every sandy land nook
and corner of this good state of ours.
Here is the order as set forth by
a man who knows-a manufacturer
dealing in the products now coming
into consideration as a cash crop for
the live-at-home farmer.
"If the farmers of Texas would grow
s25, 1000, 600 worth of peanuts this year
hey would find a ready market for
.hem," Mr.. Kelly said. 1--WE are i'm
porting peanuts today from northern
Africa, East India, Spain, China and
Japan. We want American peanuts
f we can get them, because they are
better in quality, but we can not get ,
hem. We have today 500 carloads
coming from the far east, and we could
ise as many more if we could get
hem.
Texas has the soil and climatic
conditions to grow peanuts as success ,
ully as any country in the world. The !
armers should plant your common l
'ariety of Spanish peanuts, and they
will find the market for them. There
re many concerns in the east which
will gladly erect factories for
Milling the nuts if the people will only
,roduce them.
"The peanut industry is rapidly be-
oming one of the most prominent in
he country. There are many food
'roducts, such as peanut butter, cook
ng oil and similar forms, that are ,
made from the nuts. The modern way ;
# handling them is to press the oil
rom the nuts, use it in making these
ifferent forms, and then feed the meal
o cattle and all kinds of livestock
he hay is fine for stock, and the two q
ombined can not be improved upon I
or fattening animals for the market. +
81 believe it is only a question of 4,
ime when the industry will be an i'm
ortant one in Texas. You have all
he conditions for growing as good a
uality of nuts here as anywhere in
he world. And as the farmers and c
he mill men get together and as ade- 7
uate provision is made for the mill |
lg of the nuts, the industry will y
pread and develop. We manufactur. -
RS in the east are eager for such 4
hing to happen, for we are now i'm r
orting large quantities annually Il
hich we would much prefer to buy
home"
Here is manufacturer from Ohio a!
ling Texas something about its new al