Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-28
PROBE METHOD OF
GATHERING PEANUTS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BULLETIN TELLS ESSENTIALS
OF HARVESTING THIS YALUA-
BILE CROP.

he QEpot VI e1SA tSAAbuAO AeRo ~
snel an interesting bulletin relating to
the gathering and grading of peanuts,
in part, as follows:
Gather your peanuts when you have
the greatest quantity of matured nuts
on the vines, taking notice of ap-
pearance of vines and shedding Of
leaves. You will know that peanuts
are mature when the inside of the
hull is dark Nuts are not ripe un-
til the inside of the hulls turns dark,
hence must not be gathered until nut
is in this condition, as immature nuts
will shrivel and have but little meat,
oil and value When nuts are ma
tured and ready to be gathered, if you
haven't peanut digger you can use
an ordinary two-horse turn pillow with
wing taken off. This is very
effective. Should you plow up nuts
while wet with dew, pile them up in
small piles near your stack poles I'M
til dew dries off, then stalk in the
following manner;
Use stack
Use pole about IL or 8 feet long.
Put in ground about 10 inches and
pack dirt we'll around it so that it will
stand in perfectly upright position.
| Nail two boards, each feet long, on
post, forming a cross-shape base.
Let these be about Is inches from the
ground. Lay vines across the boards
until you have formed base for your
stack. Then turn all nuts toward the
pole and build the stack on up, taking
care to bring it to point at the
top. Cap top with fine straw or grass
don't use dirt so as to have plenty
of air circulate from the bottom OF
the etack to the top.
Nuts should be stacked as soon as
the vines wilt, for if they stay in the
sun any length of time the leaves will
fall off and thus impure the hay.
Peanuts should remain the stack
from to 6 weeks, according to
weather conditions, before picking.
Be sure the peanuts ire thoroughly
dry before picking, else losses will be
excessive, as no picker will take them
off the vines until they are dry, and
they will heat, mildew and rot if pick
ed and housed before they are dry
We recommend the small stacks be-
cause they will cure more rtpidly;
ard, too, another advantage is that
two men can lift stack up
il in wagon without tearing it up
thus saving many nuts that otherwise
would be knocked off.
1t is very necessary that the farm
ers use every effort at their command
to put their peanuts on the market
in the very best condition possible
as peanuts are to sold in the future
on grades, just. like cotton. It was
decided by the Peanut Growers and
Manufacturers Association of Geor-
gia to have three (3) grades Of nuts,
az follows:
No / will be known as choice nuts.
No 2 to be standard nuts.
No. to be common nuts.
No. 2, or standard grade will be the
basis grade and all quotations will be
made on this grade. No. 1, or choice
nuts, are to bring IL per cent above
the basis on standard grade. No. 3,
or common nuts, to bring TIP per
cent below basis grade. No. 1, or
choice nuts, to contain over 8 per
cent moisture. Shall be clar, brigns
and free of mildew. Shall not exceed
1 per Get of foreign matter; shall not
exceed 10 per cent immature mats;
shall not contain over 2 per cent
broken or shelled nuts, shlal not OK
coed 5 per cent nuts with stems
No. 2, or standard grade: Moisture
rot over 10 per cent; mildewed nuts,
not over 8 per cent foreign matter;
not over Is per cent immature nuts;
not over A per cent broken or shelled
nuts; not oevc 10 per cent nuts with
stems.
No. 9, or common grade: Not over
- per cent moisture; not over Is
per cent widowed nuts; not over 8
per cent foreign matter; not over 20
per cent immature nuts; not over 81
per cent broken or shelled nuts All
nuts over 10 per cent with stems to
so in tbs grade.
There will be two varieties; Small !
white Spanish, and the other variety !
all other nuts.
All mixed nuts to take the same
price as runer nuts, which viii sell
at a little below the White Spanish. !