Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-26

to the man who did his own toting.
At any rate, since the dealers have
started in to see what they can do
to cut the cost Of deliveries, they are
pretty apt to find that they are more
responsible for the burdens of this
cost than the people themselves, for
they have not given any encouragement
10 toting or to systematic buying. Here
IS where man-sense could effect =
wonderful saving of horse power.
But these are not all the funny
things about marketing. Take right
here in Old Virginia. and the peanut
raisers sit down and let the tobacco
manufacturers ridicule their product
and never enter formal protest. In
substantiation of this, 1 offer the fol-
lowing advertisement. which has been
printed in millions OF papers and mag
You don't like raw peanuts-you like
them roasted" Maybe this is all true.
but. then. why is it that any one
would like roasted peanuts better than
raw ones when 1t is a wcll-known fact
that There is nothing quite so whole
some or SO good for the digestion as
or parchcr? Why there are enough raw
peanuts so to waste in this State every
year to cure thousands of cases OF
indigestion among just ordinary folks
out of captivity. and not in Congress,
with liberal supply left over. Who
ever heard OF laborcr in a peanut
factory being dyspepsia?
WHY SHOULD PEANUT
BE MADE INTO JOKEf
But then maybe there Is no special
reason why the peanut growers have
not taken legal action In self defense,
when II is considered that they have
all along permitted the best food prod
uct that comes out OF the ground to be
associated with politicians and peanut
galleries. II ever the peanut comes
really into its own, 1t will be through
the efforts of the people from some
where else. For instance, over at the
State Farmers Institute they had an
imported woman from the West to give
lessons In the preparation OF meals Il
VIII not say menus and bills o, fare.
for these mere names make things
htEher), and for once these Virginia
women had it put squarely up to them
that IL they did not happen to have a
chicken to fry or a ham to boil or broil
they could get a good substitute in pea
nut butter. And then / could not help
recalling that at a State meeting of
peanut growers a few years ago in
Suffolk, the largest peanut market in
the whole world. when 1 referred to
boiled peanuts. there shot up from all
over the house such a series of ques-
tons. as II were giving some Happy
Foolisan honeymoon experience. About
all l could say in reply was that If
these same farmers would go to
Charleston. Savannah. Jacksonville,
Tampa or New Orleans at this season
of the year they would most probably
find that at the fruit and peanut stands
the most popular seller of all would be
these same boiled peanuts. Whereupon
/ had to explain the process, which is
very simple: just when these nuts are
in the dough state, as any other grain
"a peanut is a grain and not root or
fruit). put them in salt water and let
them come to a good boil. just as you
would chestnuts. If that good old prac-
tice Of North Carolina mountaineers has
not been forgotten. And here is dol
lars TO doughnuts that those who try it
will wonder why all this time they
have been depriving themselves of this
dish. which is just about as palatable
a: the appetite can call for.
Moral: Instead Of running off after
so many new fads and suggestions
these days about marketing this or
that, make a larger use Of some Of the
lions and try some new ways Of using
he al