The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-10-05
IMPORTED D4PEANUTSlARCE sss3<.
FACTOR IN DOMESTIC MARKET

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FACTOR IN DOMESTIC MARKET
4 Orient Dominant as Chief Source of
\ Supply, and Orientals Replace
II Yirginias in the West = In q
4 Single Year Imports Amount to
One-FOurth of Domestic PrOduc-
tion-Great Quantities of Peanut
on Also mported-Emergency
Iaroif Increases Duties.
i The average person, accustomed to
puylng, his small bag of peanuts at
the whistling peanut roasting ma
chine in front of a fruit store, thinks
OF peanuts, if he thinks of the matter
at all, as coming from Virginia. He
would be surprised to learn that the
American peanut market has been ma
terlalll influenced for many years by
the importation of foreign-grown
nuts, says the Bureau of Markets and
Crop Estimates, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Even as far
back as the fiscal year 1910 total Of
29,27G,235 pounds were brought into
the United States, chiefly from Spain.
France, and Japan. Receipts reached
their highest point in the year ending
June 30, 1920, when 132,412,423 lbs
OF peanuts were imported b ythe Unit
cd States, most of which were grown
in China. OF this amount 12O.244 425
pounds were Shelled and 12,O67 ,998
pounds unshcllcd.
Most Imported Nuts are ShelIcd
ohelied peanuts have constituted the
greater part Of the imports during re-
cent years. A considerable portion Of
these oriental peanuts arc of the same
peanut belt around Suffolk and Nor
folk: The Department of Agriculture,
IN figuring domestic peanut produc-
ton; considers that a bushcl of un-
shellcd Virginia peanuts weighing %
4 pounds Will shell out id 2-3 pounds.
or o6 2-3 per cent of the unsheled
weight. Using this basis of compari
son and converting shclled figures to
unsnellcd EQUIVALENTS, our imports
during the fiscal year 1919-2O totaled
d92,5o4,636 pounds, or nearly 9,OOO,-
ooo bushels, as compared with do
mestic production during the 1920
season of less than 36,OO0,OO bushels.
IN addition to the imports of peanuts
duGlng the fiscal year ending June 80,
1870, 170,l60,367 pounds of peanut oil
was imported, which called for the
rushing of an even larger volume of
peanuts abroad than were actually
shipped here. For the fiscal year
I92O-2l imports of peanuts totaled At
989,23O pounds and peanut oil 1886
l8l pounds. The large Importation of
peanut oil during 1919-20. together
with the low prices Mt which it was
offered, was a material factor in CIR
failing the peanut-oiI production in
tte United States. The past effect of
foreign peanuts on the domestic pea
mt industry is therefore seen to he
of distinct Impotence.
4 India and Africa. especially Sencr-
al and Gambia, in the pest have been
the worlds heaviest peanut-producin
countries, although few nuts from
these sources have been marketed in
trc united States, eXccpt when trans
shipped through ports of France. Emo
land. and other EuuDcan countries
Spain WAS formerly one of the most
Important sources cf our foreign SUP
ply. Imports from that country, how
ever. ceased entirely during the war.
CHINA Leading Original Source of
= Supply
FOR a number of years China has
produced the bulk o fthc peanuts i'm
ported into the United States. Shant-
ung. is the leading pcanut-producinp
region in China, as it's soil is particu
lraly adapted to the growing of pea
nuts. Inc nut grown i'm that Province
IS said to be larger than that grown
IN any other part of China and con-
talnS more oil. The Provinces of Hon
an and Chihia rank next to Shantuno,
IN the production of peanuts. Peanut
iarmS' IN Shantung arc small plats
OF ground, often not over 2 acres in
area. ct from the produce of small
plats like this Chinese farmer So
cures living not only for himself and
family, but occasionally gives his sons
a college education. This is all thc
more remarkable in that most Chinese
farmers use only primitive methods Of
cultivation
The peanut business in Shantm~
has largely been taken over bv the
Japanese as the successors of the Cor
mans. Japanese traders at Tsinptau
annually export large quantities of
peanuts and peanut oil to the United
States by way of Kobe and other jap
ancSc ports. Kobe has conscmpntlv
come to be considered one of the lead
inE peanut and pcanut-oil markets of
the Far East.
Japanese Shipments Originates in
Japan exports some peanuts, but
the greater portion of tho nuts tabu-
lated by the United States customs
officials as coming from Japan are ac-
tually produced i'm China American
consular officials i'm China have report
ed that trans-Pacific freight rates in
the past have been such that nuts
could be shipped from Tsingtau to
koDc; Japan, or to Daricn, Manchuria,
and thence to the United States at
lower rates than by shipping directly