The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-11-20

rear end of the wagon, over rear axle,
and by means of long levers pull the
poles from the earth. In the end OF
the lever projecting over the rear OF
wagon chain with ring in end is
attached. When the wagon is backed
up to a stack of peanuts, some OF the
.op vines are removed, thus exposing
the pole. over which slip knot OF
chain is dropped. Then the stack is
pulled up with the prize pole or lever,
and carried at the rear of the wagon
to the picker.
The peanuts are picked from the
vines by a peanut picker, and the
nuts may be carried in bulk or II.
sacks in a wagon to the nearest
market, or they may be stored for
later sale.
The peanut hay is usually baled
by using any standard baling ma
chine. or may be housed loose.
Under ordinary conditions land
that will make a bale of cotton per
acre will make ton of cleaned pea
nuts and about a ton of vines, ana
other land in about the same proper
ton. Seasonal conditions and fertl-
lizers and lime make variations IN
the Yields per acre, just as in other
crops.
D. Marketing. AS just stated the
| peanuts are usually carried direct
from the picker to market, but If the
nuts are not thoroughly dry and
properly cured they will not bring
as good a price as we'll cured dry
nuts will bring. 1t is sometimes bet-
ter for the farmer to house his nuts
for a while, but if the nuts are prop
erly cured in the stack, they may be
sold at once.
In Alabama there are numbers OF
buyers, just as for cotton seed in this
State. and competition is keen. The
farmers of this section need not have
any fears that there will not be buy
ers for whatever peanuts they may
make, and in this connection it may
be stated that the company of which
the writer is president, The Cotton
Oil Company, Bamberg, S. c., will be
actively in the market for peanuts
next season. The prices paid this fall
for peanuts were extremely high on
account Of the short crop. Little
Runners were bringing abut $4,000
per ton, and the little white Spanish
are selling for about s225.00 per ton.
These are unusual prices, just as
forty cents cotton is unusual, and
peanuts may not be worth as much
next fall, but of course they may
bring as much or more. At any rate,
for the past several years peanuts
have been bringing big prices, and
have been very profitable to growers.
The difference in the prices of the
two varieties named is on account OF
the higher oil yield per ton of the
white Spanish. But generally more
bushels per acre of the Little Runners
may be made. thus making it matter
of choice as to which variety is most
profitable. This section probably
will plant the little white Spanish al
most entirely for sales crop, and per-
haps the Little Runners for hogs.
Some farmers in Alabama plant both
kinds for sale, being careful not to
get the varieties mixed.
Repeatedly the Alabama farmers
stressed the belief that we should not
experiment with all kinds of varieties,
but to plant either the white Spanish
or the little North Carolina or Geor-
gia runners, being the same nut, how
ever.
E. Miscellaneous. In Alabama
the peanut hay is fed to all Klnos OF
livestock, the farm work animals re-
ceiving very little, if any, other for
age. The market value of this hay in
Alabama is $500 to $4,000 per ton,
this comparatively low price existing
probably because so much of it is
made. The farmers use it on their
farms prefering to market it through
livestock, rather than to sell in the
bale.
Live stock is an important part OF
farm operations in Alabama, and adds
greatly to the prosperity of the peo-
pie. Hog raising is sure to have
major place in system of agriculture
which includes the growing Of pea
nuts, as evidenced by the fact that in
1914 two cars of hogs were sold in
Coffee county, and these mostly were
| sold to obtain money with which to