Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-09

To make money is the object of the farmer as we'll as of the manufacturer or the merchant.
 Real profit is the difference between the market value of commodity over it's cost of production. A crop that has not "Cash Surrender Value" Gin an uninterrupted market demand) be- yond it's cost of production, cannot be considered as crop grown for real profit, although an indirect profit may result in reducing the cost of a money crop.
 Money Crop Gives Real Profit.
 It is the money crop that gives real profit to the farm and money crop can only be crop of a known market value immediately convertible into money in any town at any time.
 For years cotton has been the only crop grown in the South that has a Cash Surrender Value" and the ab- sence of other money crops has been the chief difficulty under which the Southern farmers has labored.
 The problem of supplying the Southern farmer with cash market for other crops that would yield to him as much or more profit than he derives from the cotton crop, has se- riously engaged the attention of the farmer and his true friends, and with the assistance of the boil weevil, they have found a solution of the problem in peanuts.
 The Peanut.
 The peanut crop offers wonderful Opportunities. It can be grown over the entire South with profit.
 It reaches it's perfection in growth and yield on we'll drained, gray, sandy loam soils such as exist in the cast al plains along the Atlantic Seaboard which territory is now either occupied or is being rapidly encroached upon by the boil weevil.
 There is constant demand at a "Cash Surrender Value" from a mar ket that would be difficlt to glut with the peanut, for the reason that there are five avenue of profit.
 Five Avenues of Profit.
 First: Progressive oil mills through out the South are eager buyers of the peanut and offer a spot cash market at very remnuerative prices. The oil is in great demand.
 Second: The nut and vines are a splendid feed for cattle. producing a quick growth of firm and tender meat. A profit in the sales of cattle thus fed and fattended is a certainty.
 Third: The best quality of peanuts find a ready sale at top prices to the manufacturers of candy. of peanut butter and other confections.
 Fourth: Peanut cake from the oil mills). fed to hogs, makes a vigorous growth and gain in weight and, when properly finished off" with corn, gives firm meat with the fat con- taining proper proportion of stearine for making good firm lard.
 Feeding the whole nut to the hog is mistake for two reasons: First, the value of profit from the oil is lost, and second, the oil of the nut gives and excess of oil over stearine and produces in the hog a soft, flabby meat, the fat of which will not pro- duce lard of proper consistency. Fifth: The peanut being legume, is a soil builder and adds nitrogen to the soil and works in splendidly in a rotation with cotton or with corn, both of which crops are voracious 1 feeders on nitrogen and requiring clean culture, rapidly deplete the soil of it's nitrates.
 Proper Fertilization. ~ Because it is a legume, many peo- pie believe that it requires no fertili- gers and in this they gre badly mis- taken. Nitrogen, gathering nodules do not begin to form on the roots of the plant until the nut is two thirds mAturediand if through lack of prop er nou}ishnnent, the plant is allowed to laneuish >,until this Stage is reached thf crop will be greatly curtailed and prpfits lost. '@s
 The plant requires a sufficient amount of nitrogen from quick act ing source to carry it to the nodule forming period while the presence in sufficient quantities of phosphoric acid