The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-11
THE GAY AND FESTIVE PEANUT

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ject for discussion at the next meeting
is selected, and thus the peanut was on
everyone tongue on the night Of Mch.
Bird. Il was explained that all peanuts
are strictly a summer plant and cannot
Be grown when the earth is in any
way cold.
Spanish peanuts should not be plant
ed in this section before the 18th Of
April, and better May Ist. or later.
because when planted at this time the
earth has become warm and the pea
nuts can come up at once.
If peanuts are planted earlier in the
season, they will swell and moi have
enough warmth in the earth to let them
come on up. They then rot and in
few days you have no stand, and if the
ground is examined the nuts planted.
cannot be found because they have
decayed and become absorbed BY the
soil.
It is preferable to plant always the
shelled peanuts, because less seed IS
required per acre; also, if the shelling
is done properly. the pops and other
imperfect nuts are removed, and they
can be planted readily with asPIanter
and put in the ground at the proper
depth.
Smelling peanuts if carefully done
does not damage them to any great ex-
tent, and whatever damage does hap
pen is largely offset by thorough
cleaning and eliminating the imperfect
nuts. And it ought 10 be needless to
say that only the very choisest nuts
should be selected for seed. AS long
as the eyebud is not damaged, even
though otherwise scratched, the pea
nut will grow.
The seed bed should always be in
the very best condition, sandy loan
containing lime, phosphoric acid, pot
ash and sulphur, yielding the best re-
turns with respect to quality and guam
tity.
AS food. Prof. Martin asserted the
peanut TO be superior to any other pro-
duct Of the soil Or the animal world,
having proved himself by long years
Of actual use. Peanut oil is The equal
Of olive oil and the residue peanut
meal is equal 10 cottonseed meal as 4
animal food or as fertilizer.
Comrade Lindsey mentioned Prof.
Carver Of the Tuskegee Institute Of AL
ALBANIA who has produced a vegetable
milk from peanuts that tastes like milk,
looks like milk, and will yield butter
and cheese just like cows milk.
1t would appear that this colored
scientist is a yeritable Edison in his
particular field Of research. His pa
vorite study is the common sweet po-
tato Of the South. Starting with the
ordinary dried Of dehydrated potato,
he has. thru proper manufacturing pro-
cesses, produced various grades Of
meal and flour. By still different
process he has perfected tapioca
which has the same analysis, taste. and
texture as the commercial article.
Breakfast foods. which We are told
are as delightful as any on the mar
ket to-day are another product. And |
starch also can be produced.
Among the more unusual forms are
mentioned a bisque. or entirely new fla
voring for use in making ice cream, |
icings for cakes, etc, nibs and candy, /
and a substitute for instant coffee.
From the peelings Of the potatoes, eli
ther valuable stock food for cattlel
and hogs. Or a good grade Of vinegar
can be made. Molasses. or syrup. is
another valuable food product. Man-
featuring lines have not been neglected
for the sweet potato has also yielded
many different and some Of them en-
tirely new, shades Of colors for dying |
cloth or leather, Or as the basis Of
wood stains. Perhaps, however. the
most wonderful product is d synthetic
rubber.
Not all Of these products are sub
jeet to commercial manufacture in
competition with present products and
prices. Many, however. have tempting
commercial prospects and we can rea-
sonably look for their advent in our
markets in the comparatively near fu-
ture.