The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-18
THE PEANUT INDUSTRY.
a,ooo Tons Stored in One Savannah Ware
house far Eminent


Few there ar Nho. ~ they pass the
common peanut stands III eur cities and !
towns, realize what an important in |
dustry peanut raising has become in the
states where the nuts are produced. |
about the only important thing con-
neeted with peanuts at the present time
Is that one gets about half as much for
his money as he used to receive in the
happy days of childhood. But peanut
eating does not subside No matter what
the price may be, the consumption
Will continue just the same Tie man
who usually purchased quart for 10
cents. and decorated the nearest street
corner during the time that he was eat
ing them, now receives half as many and
usually keeps away from the corner SO
IL to make less prominent exhibition
of his extravaganza.
Bnt in he Southern states the RAISING
OF peanuts IS a great industry When
| therefore, the statement was made in n
Savannah paper the other dav that at the
| present time 1000 tons of peanuts. which
would fill 200 ordinary freight cars. are
stored i'll warehouse in that city it
makes one feel as though little was
known Of the magnitude of the industry.
These peanuts are piled in the store
| houses awaiting shipment to mill in
Charleston. $ G.. only $50 miles away.
where they will be converted into oil.
| The next time they are seen in Savannah.
Tor any other city for that matter. they
! Will not, of course. be recognized. They
viii have been converted into peanat oil,
hog feed, meal lard substitutes, and
fats of various kinds. They will also
furnish the oil in many edibles. and
perhaps some of this quantity will APP
pear in tempting forms on the tables of
many OF our Hartford families
he uses to which peanuts can be put
lare extremely varied. The man, the boy.
or the girl, for that matter, who thinks
that peanuts are only used for street
Icamer feasting. is badly mistaken in
IdNidnal. The list Of products which ii
Is possible TO manufacture from the
ordinary peanut is 80 long that it would
surprise the ordinary citizen who looked
ufon the peanut as a necessary attach
mpnt to a circus of a country fair. The
great majority of the peanuts now be-
ing stored in Savannah were grown in
the sO-ealled hog section" of Georgia.
with 4 few from north Florida and east
ern Alabama. South Georgia Is also be-
ing extensively planted in peanuts. which
are used both for feeding hogs and for
the market. 1t II an industry that holds
promises Of great growth in the state
where cotton has reigned as King for
s generations
The peanut = rotating crop for cot
Ton in the South The peanuts furnish to
tie soil the nitrogen that the cotton plant
needs and many OF the farmers are
II 4,
The larger. white peanuts are planted
/ solely Tor parching as they do not con
j tam nearly so much oil a. the smaller
, 81 anish peanuts. and are not 50 valu-
! able commercially. When it is known
that ton Of peanuts brings $l25 and
that the average yield per acre is ton
and a half. it j. seen that peanut raising
IN the South presents very formidable
rival to cotton. Il actually threatens
5, ii Is said in the South to race for first
7 place III the districts where it thriyes
! While the uses OF peanuts and their by
!. Iproducts evidently increases, the price
7 Is surely in the line OF advancement and
= this means a much larger income for thg
q farmer.
Peanut districts arc sprnging up al
Z over the South and the oil from then
n is being used in place Of cotton seed Of
4 n many Of the cdbles This. Of course
takes the place Of the much more eN
q pcnsive olive oil. which has become /;
i great luxury since the war commenced
4 good olive oil that formerly sold 10
ss.75 a gallon now bring. around $3.50
90 the substitutes Of which peanut oi
Is one Of the best, find ready market
II There are peanut. industries in Nortl
Carolina and in Virginia and other states
NJ and they are rapidly increasing. Who
man kicks at the peanut stand on nc
IL count OF the increased price lie has t
Il pay he viii find some solace in III
thought that peanuts are now niue
4, more Of a commercial necessity than the,
Il we're in the days when he went bare
), footed and peanuts We're principal
used for circuses and country fairs
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