The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-15
PEANUTS NOW USED
In MANY new FORMS
MODERN PROCESSES IMPROVE
THE OIL, WITH THE DEMAND
INCREASING RAPIDLY.

Peanuts are playing an important
part in the food conservation pro-
gram. Long before the war the pea
nut, because of its great nutritive
value, was found useful as food for
both man and beast, but now it fig
ures in such a surprising number of
war activities that not a particle of
the vine or its product is allowed to
go to waste, according to w. NJ. Pret-
low, one of the largest growers in
Virginia.
''ln furthering war activities pea
nuts are valued for the oil they pro-
duce, which is USED in manufacturing
the highest explosive compound" said
Mr. Pretlow. mills for the manufac-
ture of this oil have sprung up ev-
erywhere, and the government orders
increase daily. Because of this de-
mand there will be a large increase
in the output next year 1t is feared
that there may be a shortage in the
supply needed by confectioners be-
fore the producers are able to adjust
themselves to the situation.
Grade Greatly Improved.
"The grade of peanut oil has i'm
proved tremendously This is very
largely due to the demand for peanut
oil as a substitute for olive oil, which
has become scarce. Much greater
care must be given to the production
of said oil in order to fill the gap left
by the scarcity of olive oil and many
new processes have been worked out
and some splendid results will soon
be shown. Peanut oil is excellent for
cooking, cosmetics, sardine packing,
oleomargarlne, soap, miners lamps,
medical emulsions, kid gloves and silk
manufacture, and peanut oil 'foots'
are used for putty, washing powder,
glycerine, black grease, roofing limo
leum, insulating material oilcloth,
paint base, cotton rubber and artif-
cial leather.
There has not been the increased
demand for peanuts themselves as
food which it was believed would
come with the war. This may be be-
cause they combine so readily with
other foods and are more easily trans
ported as peanut butter or in some
other preparation, for there is a
great waste of space in the hulls.
Peanuts were recently selected as one
of four most nutritious products I'M
der consideration by the Red Cross in
preparing a palatable food for the
soldiers.
"The many uses of the peanut are
just beginning to appear While very
little of the product was ever allowed
to 90 to waste, beginning 18th pea
nut -four for bread and goin~ down
the long list we find that every part
can be utilized. Even the vines are
used for fodder and feed for the cat
tie, and hogs can be depended upon
to root up any peanuts that are over
looked and left in the ground.
Hulls Are Valuable.
Before the Importance of the very
high grade oil was considered the
hulls1 and all were used in It's manu-
facture, but now they are carefully
separated, and the hulls are carefully
prepared for their particular use.
While a few of the peanut mills are
grinding peanut hulls with mixed feed
for stock and others are selling them
for stock as they came from the sell
err, there is still another market for
them-that of polishing tin plate dur
ing it's manufacture. When ground
for this purpose they must be put
through attrition mills fine enough to
pass through thirty-mesh wire. This
product brings as much as go per
ton. The inferior hulls are used as
fertilizer and fuel.
"The meats, besides maxi" an eX-
cellent flour, can be utilized for stock
feed and fertilizer, and al00 in the
manufacture of dyestuffs, Peanut
meal is now produced in large guam
titles. The by-product of peanut oil
a peanut cake-is the most recent
addition to the list of useful products
When there was no great need fo1
conservation this cake, which is g
hard mass, was thrown away or some
times was ground up and used fol
fertilizer, but it is now made into
peanut meal, or the better grade is
used as a -four substitute.
Twenty-Five Grades.
"There are twenty-five grades Of
peanuts now grown in the South
More than four million acres are nov
under cultivation and much of thu
land formerly used for cotton is nov