Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-15
The Peanuts Come Back.

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nipulation of markets, shipments
from abroad and kindred difficulties
have beset growers and selling agen-
cies d uring the past few years, but
it now looks like the peanut is get
ting on stable basis and riding a
high horse, at that. Prices in the Au-
gusta district are quoted at hundred
dollars a ton on board cars at sta
tions on the farms. This means any
where from fifty to seventy-fve dol
lars per acre return in the matter of
peanuts for the nuts alone, to say
nothing Of the valuable hay.
There may be some sort of squirt
to which this may be attributed, but
truth to tell the peanut is a mighty
food product and one that is valu-
able in more ways than almost any
other oil or fat producing substance.
A product of that type is bound to
ultimately become universally val
liable on a standardized basis, for the
world wants food and comes to ap-
preciate it in time. The peanut offers
the solution to the problem of hun
ger today, just as some solution has
been provided at critical times in all
the past.
Less than century ago people
were threatened with starvation, be-
cause the great problem of harvest
ing grain-at that time wheat
not been solved. But the reaper came
and at the moment the world was
saved.
Hardly had that difficulty been
surmounted when transportation
problems perplexed economists and
tradesmen. But then came. the rail
roads, and once again the danger of
famine was defeated.
Less than half a century ago, the
menace of hunger again overshadow-
ed civilization, and corn was brought
into requisition. Corn in billions of
bushels filled the void, and it's use
has been continued and expanded un-
til now we have corn flour, corn meal,
corn starch, corn sugar, and such
diversity Of other corn food and
products, we wonder what further
possibility it may hold.
When corn began to fail to fill the
requirements and needs of the peo-
pie, the cotton seed, previously
waste product, came upon the scene
cotton seed meal, cotton seed oil,
cotton seed hulls-and the food store
houses were lavishly filled with bill
lion dollars worth or more of goods.
There came time, just recently,
when new and more extensive re-
quiremert became evident and the
peanut was developed as CONNER
cial product, to fill the gap; and
though we have been hearing of Vir-
ginia and NorthC hCarolina peanuts for
many decades, Georgia or Alabama
either, produces more peanuts than
both the first-named states combined.
However, in the face of the big
gest oat crop, the biggest peanut
crop, and the biggest potato crop on
record, with a fair yield of cotton
seed, the question of food is becom-
ing predominant, and people who
study these problems are again be-
ginning to ask, "Where shall we turn
for relief?"
The world stands, beggar at the
door-on the threshold of civilization
and hungry, while the great
problems of the ages offer the old
challenge to those who would con-
quer them. And what shall De the
answer to the question: Of centuries,
concerning food and raiment? Is
there any other answer than this?
To:
"Beat the swords into plough
shares, and the spears into pruning
hooks" and grow crops that will
feed and clothe humanity the world
over.-Augusta Chronicle.
FOR SALE: 5000 stalks of Rib