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“HERE'S YER PEANUTS; ? ?
HOT AN’ FRESH ROASTED.”
Raising, Roasting and Selling
the Great American Goober.
IMPORTANT SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.
Flantins and Harvesting the -Crop—From
the Plantation to the Street Corner.
■ Peanut Oil and Floor—American Goo-
I hers the Beet.
S “Here’s yer nice, fresh roasted Vir
ginity peanuts now! Ten a quart!
They’re all hot! They’re all hot!”
“Nicea pea-a-nutta! Teu-a-cent a
bag! Ten-a-cantl”
Is it any wonder that with such an
l incessant reiteration of its fine qualities
IL forever ringing in his ears the American
® conies to regard the peanut more as an
Bl every day necessity than as a luxury?
■i .We are the greatest peanut eaters in the
r world, and the only nation that regards
L the goober as a delicacy. It lends an
« added charm to the circus, kis an in-
V dispensable adjunct to the county fair,
it pushes the firecracker hard for second
P lace on Fourth of July, and it glorifies
fK ‘ the taffy of Christmas day. In our land
no parallels of latitude or longitude
■ bound the confines of its popularity,
■ and it knows no season. From coast to
■ coast, from the Canadian line to the
® Mexican frontier, the peanut is appre-
B elated all the year round from New
B Year’s to New Year’s.
■ We raise, according to the report of
I the bureau of agriculture, 3,250,000
■ bushels of peanuts each year. This
■> makes the yield something over 100,-
000,000 quarts, and as we export hard-
I ly any, but consume them right at
home, we annually pay something like
B *10,000,000 for this dainty, a sum
|jß which might easily be spent more un
-■■litb..
|B In th® 80at h and west it is universally
: "B known as the goober or pindar, but in
|w the northern states and all through-
land it is known simply as the
Has the ground nut or ground pea, while
Bp France it is called the pistache de
Rm or earth nut. But should you offer
■ little French boy a bag of peanuts he
Bmuld scornfully shrug ins shoulders
Kd decline. A German boy would turn
BHB bis nose at them too. And yet both
S® B inee and Germany import great
■HBantities of peanuts. But what do you
Bpose they do with the shiploads of
Hunts which they receive? Why, they
Hid them up for the cake of the oil in
’f* B“i aud fee(i the mcai t 0 cattle or sell
poor people for flour. The French
BBBst the beans eutil they are brown,
grind them up and use them for
Bulterating chocolate. The oil they
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- .B “NICEA PEA-A-NUTTA.”
Hell for olive oil, both of which sharp
Ig&Bractices might be expected of the
B Europe gets its peanuts from the west
of Africa and from India, but in
HEBither place can they raise peanuts
Bicb can compare with the American
■HB'xiuct. The African pi anuts especially
|||||He very oily and have a rancid flavor,
' Bit for commercial purposes this does
|g||Bt decrease their value.
Virginia has long had the reputation
jßjwH being “the peanut state,” but; North
Ifosßrolina, Maryland, Georgia and Cali
/Bnia raise large quantities as well.
|J||jße peanut is a native of Brazil, but a
Ktecal climate does not seem to be
|BKMBary for its growth. It not only
' ' • H 9 in most of the southern states,
'• \ -Ban be raised even as far north as
York. 1 ,lltve Been a “mail crop
A B 'without difficulty in northern
B.lersey.
f '-’ 1 "Witanically the peanut is something
Bfreak. It is a second cousin to the
|BB; he.’i, but its run along th*
■salt
■HFUM
'• f ‘ ‘H* l - torturing and dlsflgnrirfg of Itching,
'*■ Bning, «<a’.y skin and scalp humors is In-
Kktly relieved I y a v.apn bath with Ct’Tl-
H>a fioAl'.a sm; le applicat ion of (frierKA
■tment >, Hie at skin cure,and al ull dose
- HvTMiUKA Ek-solvent, greatest of blood
and humor cure.-,,when all else fails.
■ B iicura
Bjng hair
ground like viiies. The flowers some
what resemble those of the cucumber,
being small -and yellow. They appear
on the underside of the leaf at intervals
along the stem. The flower develops
above the ground, the fruit underneath.
When the blossom drops off, a curious
evolution is begun. A little stem juts
out from where the flower grew. On its
end is a shprp pointed seed cap, which
<is the embryo nut. By some wonderful
intuition this little cap, or ovary, pushes
itself into the ground until it is com
pletely buried. Then the peanut begins
to mature.
The seeds are planted in drills or
trenches, and these are kept clear of
weeds by careful cultivation. Oh large
farms a patent planter.is used which
makes the drill,.mixes in the fertilizer
and drops the beans, leaving behind an
evenly made ridge five or six inches
high, flattened on the top. When the
vines grow up, lime in the shape of land
plaster is applied to the top of thb
ridges. Without this there would be a
fine crop of vines, but few peanuts.
When harvesting time comes,- the
farmer hitches a pair of mules to a bull
tongued plow and runs along the fur
rows. The “peanut point” of the plow
cuts the taproot of each vine, after
which it is an easy matter to rake up
the vines with the earth covered pea
nuts clinging to them. For a few hours
the ' pods are allowed to dry in the hot
sun and then the vines are stacked in
the open field around poles. The vines
L
’ STACKING PEANUTS.
are gatWfted when they are perfectly
dry, otherwise the pods would blacken
and mildew. Each stack is carefully
thatched on the top with hay or Wtraw
and left to ‘ ‘sun cure’ ’ for two or three
weeks.
On small farms the pods are picked
from the vines by hand, women and
children usually doing this part of the
work. 'Ou large plantations, however,
the peanut thrasher, a machine rim by
steam power and operating much after
the manner of a grain thrasber, is-em
ployed. The vines are thrown on ah
elevated platform, whence they are
fed into a hopper. The pods aw sepa
rated and dropped on a revolving belt
of -cotton cloth. The perfect pods are
picked off by the deft fingers of women
and the faulty ones are allowed to pass
on to a bin at the end. A machine will
usually pick 300 bushels a day.
Before being put in bags the pods are
first run through a fan, which blows
away all the leaves, dirt and unfilled
pods or “pops.” Sometimes they are
whitened or bleached by sulphur fumes,
but this is not generally done. The pea
nuts reach the wholesale market in
coarse meshed bags containing several
bushels each, and it is in this shape
that the retail dealer buys them. He
roasts them over a charcoal fire,* gener
ally on the street corner, and pours
them piping hot into the bag which he
hands the purchaser.
The wholesale price of x peanuts fluc
tuates as much as that of any other sta
ple crop, but the retail price seems to
be immovably fixed. You might almost
imagine congress had passed a law for
bidding the sale of peanuts at any more
or any less than 10 cents a quart.
A bushel Os peanuts in the pod weighs
28 pounds, and the yield per acre runs
all the way from 100 to 125 bushels.
Some of the larger plantations in North
Carolina, Virginia and other peanut
raising states have 200 or more acres
devoted to this one crop. Os late Cali
fornians have been going into the busi
ness of raising goobers on a large scale,
as they do everything else, and it is
possible that when they really get down
to business they will glut the market,
and then we shall see the retail price
of peanuts drop for the first time in
history.
But aside from the peanut in its
toothsome roasted state, as most of us
know it, it has a distinct commercial
value derived from the various products
obtained from it. Os these the oil is the
Auost valuable. The nuts contain from
42 to 50 per cent of oil, which when
pressed out cold is clear, light in color
and cSn be detected from pure olive oil
only by an expert. In fact, it is widely
sold as olive oil and is used as such
(both on the table and in the pharmacy.
When slightly heated before being
, subjected to pressure, the nuts yield a
larger quantity of oil, but it is darker
in color and of an inferior quality. This
is useful, though, and there is a large,
demand for it. It is called archais oil,
Archais hypogoea being the botanical
name for the nut. The French use ar
ohais oil in making fine toilet soaps and
as the basis of various ointments. Pure
archajs oil is one of the finest lubricants
known and io used to lubricate watches
and other delicate machinery.
A very small portion of the American
peanut crop, however, io need in thio
manner.’. We, like ours bqtter when
TH® BOMB TBiBONBs SUNDAY. AUGUST 22. 1837
rfiasted. To' a-limited extent the manu
facture of peanut oil is carried on in
Virginia and- perhaps one or two other
states. It is ene as our infant industries
which is liable to attain immense pro
portions within the next few years. The
Europeans, grind up the refuse of the
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CttLITVATING A PKASSTT FIELD,
nuts and make cakes which they find
to stock. Some of the peasants hike
soup made of ground peanuts, and they
use it in various other ways. In Vir
ginia peanut flour is used to some extent,
while in Georgia they have long: used
pounded peanuts in pastry. The-vines
make good fodder for stock abd cheap
paper can be made of the shells,, while a
drove of hogs will fatten in a remark
ably short time if allowed to root over a
field from which a peanut crop has been
gathered.
So you see the humble peanut is a
very useful plant, whether ' nicely
blanched and salted and served from a
dainty bonbon dish ( at swell functions
or ground up as meal and fed to cattle.
So here’s to the peanut. May we never
have a short crop.
Cyrus Sylvester.
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For fever, chills, debility and kid
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-For blotches and pimples on the
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Fifty cents and |1 bottles, at drug
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After ten years of great suffering
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Eld M E. Church South.
No. 28 Tatnall Lt., Atlanta, Ga.
A Prominent Memphian.
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A Dr. Johnson Story.
In glancing through the recently pub
lished work on that worthy bore, Dr.
Johnson, I failed to discover the follow
ing anecdote. It is carefully preserved
by a family whose Scotch ancestors
-took a rise out of the great lexicogra
pher:
Hostess —Dr. Johnson, what do you
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Dr. Johnson—Madam, in my opinion
it’s only fit for pigs.
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"It’s wonderful,” said the man who
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“What suggested tha't idea?”
“A chimpanzee that I saw. He was
one jin a perfectly wild condition. Now
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