The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-02-14
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The farmers OF Oklahoma in car.
rying out their liberalization pro.
gram, could not do better than grow
peanuts is the belief OF W. H. Kelly.
Of Cleveland. ohio, head OF what is
said to BE- the largest establishment
IN the world. manufacturing peanut
products only Mr. Kelly, an old
friend of J. D Burke. was in the city
Saturday.
III the farmers Of Oklahoma would
grow $4,000. 600 worth of peanuts this
year they would find ready market
for them." Mr. Kelly said "We are
importing peanuts today from North
ern Africa. East India, Spain, China
and Japan. We want American pea
nuts if We can gel them, because they
iare better in quality, but We can not
get them We have today GOO car
loads coming from the Far East, and
We could use as many more If We
could get them.
"Oklahoma has the soil and climatic
conditions to grow peanuts as sue
cesslully as any country in The world
The farmers should plant your com
mon variety OF Spanish peanuts, and
hey will find the marckt for them
There are many concerns in the East
which will gladly erect factories for
milling the nuts il the people will only
produce them
"lhc trouble with the farmers Is
ha, they do not understand about
peanuts They are not aware OF the
srcat possibilities ! ahd an expert
nee that will prove my assertion.
Several years ago got into communi-
cation with some farmers at Emory
Texas. The bon weevis had destroy
u their cotton crop and they were
looking for a money crop to take its
place. / went to Emory and spoke
> fore 500 farmers. and they agreed
10 plant 10000 acres in peanuts. As
evidence of good faith on my part |
tprec;od a large warehouse AT har
lNestng time sent a man to Texas to
! leok after the crop He wrote back
and wanted 10 know where the pea
nuts were. learned later that the
farmers had decided that If they
! raised ten carloads of peanuts they
could not possibly sell them. They
thought that quantity would supply the
demand in the whole United States
Tor whole year
Many Uses for Them.
"The trouble was they did not real
iye the many uses 70 which peanuts
are put They thought they are only
sold AT the county fairs and circuses.
Aga matter of fact. the peanut indus
Try Is rapidly becoming one of the
mos prominent in the country There
are many food products. such as pea
MT huiter. cooking oil and similar
farms. that are made from the nuts.
The modern way OF handling them Is
te prcss the oil from the nuts, use II
n making those different forms and
then feed the meal to cattle and all
kinds of live stock he hay isl fine
for stock and the two combined can
not be improved upon for fatt ming
animals for he market
81 believe il is only a question OF
time until the industry will be an i'm
nortant one in Oklahoma. You have
IN The conditions for growing as good
a oualitv of nuts here as anywhere IN
tho world And as the farmers and
he mill men get together. and as
.loouafa provision is made for the
milling of the nuts, the industry will
spr .ad and develop We manufacture
ers In .hc East are eager for such
,hinr "a happen. for we are now mi
porling lare quantities anhuaiiE'
.uhieh we would much prefer to huy
a. home"