The Little River news., 1919-04-23

The Arkansas Cotton Seed Crushers get enough cottonseed to keep their oil mills running only half of each year The crushers want enough SPANISH PEANUTS to keep their mills crushing during tne six months of each year when there is cotton seed There is large demand for peanut oil and peanut cake the product left after the oil mas been pressed out of the nuts, is one of the besc feeds for mules horses dairy and beef cattle hogs sheep and poultry.
 It will take the crop from one million acres of SPANISH PEANUTS to supply the yearly needs of the oil mills The peanuts properly planted, Will bring $40 to $1OO an acre. The hay from the tops is usually worth enough to pay for the seed and for raising the crop. This market for SPANISH PEANUTS will furnish Arkansas farmers with a second cash crop good as cotton.
 It is not probable that enough SPANISH PEA NUTS will be planted in 1919 to furnish the full quantity needed to keep all the oil mills of the State operating for six months. A sufficient num- Der of oil mills, we'll distributed, over the State will crush all the peanuts that are offered. Every farm community will be within easy shipping dis tance of an oil mill that will buy peanuts
 The oil mills will handle SPANISH PEANUTS i'll car lots only In every neighborhood where the land is adapted to this crop the farmers shoud get together and arrange for the planting of 30 acres or as many times 30 acres as they think profitable as an average crop 30 acres will make car load.
 SOIL: Sandy soil that will not produce pay ing crop of either cotton corn will yield SPAN ISH PEANUTS worth $40 and upward an acre. In 1918 with months drouth during the grow ing season a farmer in Jackson County, Arkansas, raised 55 bushels acre very sandy land.
 Considerable of the red clay land of the State produces good crops on SPANISH PEANUTS and good yields have been secured by several farmers near Lonoke and Hagen on the prairie rice lands.
 THE SEED: The highest yields can be obtained only by planting hand-picked seed. The handl1n5 of the peanuts by any kind of machinery--thresn- CT picker, cleaner or huler-bruises the germs. lowers the germination and thereby cuts cown the yield In White County hand picked seed is plant ed and the yield is 50 to 75 bushels an acre. In county in the southwest part of the State the yield on soil well adapted to the crop is from 2o to oo bushels an acre and many fields yielding only l5 bushels. Seed threshed by machinery and some shelled seed is planted
 Last winter SPANISH PEANUTS. hand picked '. tested 100 per cent germinat1on. Ihey were run . through sheller again tested and only half or them would grow A sack of SPANISH PGANU10 loaded on truck at a seed house, hauled to depot and unloaded on the platform and then into a car will have the germs bruised so much ny handling that the germnation will be cut 10 Der cent.
 Most Arkansas farmers will have to plan. threshed peanuts this year. They should buy Tor seed nuts that are in good condition with few or none crushed. and they should handle the seed % gently as possible Under no circumstances should shelled seed be planted Next Fall every grower con hend pick the seed that he will need for an- other year.
 PREPARING THE GROUND: Break the land fiat disk and harrow it until it s.in good condr tion. Unless the land is poorly drained it should be flat planted Light ridges may be thrown up on parts of field that are poorly drained.
 WHEN TO PLANT: On quick soils SPANISH PEANUTS ms ature in 90 days from psantlng on most soils in 110 days. The young plants are more easily killed by frost than bush beans and peanuts should not be planted until all danger of frost is over and the ground has become warm. On quick soils planting may be done immediately after mar