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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA.
Better Farming in the South
PEANUTS AS A CASH CROT
To make money
Is the object of
the farmer aa
well as of the
manufacturer or
the merchant
Heal profit Is
the difference be
tween the mar
ket value of a
commodity over
its cost of pro
duction. A crop
that has not a
‘Cash Surrender
D. B. OSBORNE
Value" (In an Interrupted market
demand) cannot be considered as a
crop grown for Real Profit, although
an indirect profit may result in reduc-
lng the cost of a Money Crop.
Money Crop Gives Real Profit
It is the Money Cfop that gives
real profit to the farm and a Money
Crop can only be a crop of a known
market value Immediately convertible
into money in any town at any time.
The problem of supplying the Sputh-
ern farmer with a cash market for
other crops that would yield as much
or more profit than $e derives from
the cotton crop, has engaged the at
tention of the farmer and his friends,
and with the assistance of the Boll
Weevil, they have found a solution of
the problem in Peanuts,
The Peanut
The Peanut crop offers wonderful
opportunities. It can be grown over
the entire "South with profit.
It reaches its perfection in growth
and yield on Well drained, gray, sandy
loam soils such as exist tn the Coastal
Plgins along the Atlantic Seaboard,
which territory Is now either occupied
or Is being rapidly encroached upon
by the Boll Weevil.
There Is a constant demand at a
"Cash Surrender Value" from a mar
ket that would be difficult to glut with
the peanut, for the reason that there
are five avenues of profit.
Five Avenues of Profit
First: Progressive oil mills through
out the South are eager buyers of the
Peanut and offer a spot cash mar
ket at very remunerative prices. The
oil is In great demand.
Second: The nut and vines are a
splendid feed for cattle, producing a
quick growth of firm and tender meat.
A profit In the sales of cattle thus
fed and fattened Is a certainty.
Third: The best quality of peanuts
find a ready sale at top prices to I lip
manufacturers of candy, of peanut but
ter and other confections.
Fourth: Peanut cake (from the oil
mills), fed to hogs, makes a vigor
ous growth and gain In weight and
when properly “finished off" with
corn, gives a firm meat with the fat
containing a proper proportion of
stenrine for making good firm lard.
Feeding the whole nut to the hog
is a mistake for two reasons: First,
the value or profit from the oil Is
lost, and second, the oil of the nut
gives an excess of oil over stearine
and produces in the hog a soft, flabl
meat, the fat of which will not pr
duoe lard of a proper -consistency.
Fifth: The Peanut, being a legum<
1b a soil builder and adds nitrogen t
the soil and works' in splendidly in
rotation with cotton or corn, both o
which are voracious feeders on nltr
gen and requiting clean culture, rap
idly deplete the soil of nitrates.
Proper Fertilization
Because it is a legume, many pec
pie believe that it requires no fertlli
zers and In this they are badly mis
taken. Nitrogen gathering nodule
do not begin to form on the roots o
the plant until the nut is two-third-
matured and if through lack of prop
er nourishment, the plant is aHowec
to languish until this stage is reach
ed, the crop will be greatly curtailed
and profits lost.
The plant requires a sufficient
amount of nitrogen from a quick actinp
source to carry it to the nqdule form
ing period while the presence in suffl
clent quantities of phosphoric acid and
potash is essential during the growth
and .maturity of the plant.
An application of a fertilizer con
taining 12 per cent available phos
phoric acid, 1 d-2 to 2 per cent am
monia and 2 per cent potash, applied
at the rate of from 400 to 600 pounds
per acre, will make a crop of both
nuts and hay sufficient to ‘return the
cost of the fertilizer and leave a hand
some profit while an unfertilized crop
will barely return cost of production.
-The Profit Value
The profit value of an acre of well
cultivated and fertilized peanuts Is
equal to the profit value of an acre of
cotton producing two-thirds of a bale
to the acre.
The following tabulated cost and
value estimated by Dr. J. N. Harper,
clearly proves this point:
Comparative Cost Per Acre of Cotton
and Peanuts
Cotton Peanuts
Cost Per Acre Cost
$ 1.50 Breaking Land $ 1.50
Harrowing Land .25
.50 Hauling Fertilizers .50
.25 Laying off Land .25
.25 .Applying Fertilizer .25
.50 Beading on Fertilizer _ .50
,25 Harrowing before Planting .25
.75 Seed 2.00
8.00 Fertilizers 8.00
.£5 Planting ^ .25
667 lbs. Cotton Seed
Gross profit $66.61
Cost of cotton 34.50
Net profit cotton $32.11
$60.00
, 15.00
Net profit peanuts $32.25
•If harvested by machine the cost will be
Liberty
Mrs. Nallie Daniel!, utoo is on
the sick list, we are glad to say
is improving.
Miss Eunice Kimbal, who has
been visiting relatives near Mt,
Zion, returned home Saturday.
L. T. Ayers and wife visited
the latter’s parents in Paulding
county Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. J. T. Layton is visiting
relatives near Liberty this week.
Prof. B. P. Watkins and J. (J.
Griffin went to Douglasville Fri
day on business.
S. C. Stovall is all smiles these
days—it’s a new Ford.
Mr. Selman of Do lglasville,
wa3 in otir community one day
last week looking for Milch and
beef cows.
Enoch Reynolds and E. P.
Strickland were in Douglasville
one day last week.
The writer spent Thursday
night with Prof. L. S. Lamoert
and family near Big A#
The writer traveled over
right smart of Douglas and Car-
roll counties and find that people
are cutting down their cotion
crop and planting more corn
Born, to Mr. and ,virs Sid
Strickland Sunday morning, -V
‘ boy.
Mrs. Alfred Reynolds of near
Mt. Zion, was visiting relatives
near Liberty last week.
J. H. Bass and wife visited W.
J. Daniell and wife Sunday.
Wiley Gil land and family vis
ited C. P. Stovall and family
Sunday..
S. O. Stovall and family
motored to Ebeneezer Sunday to
the general meeting.
Mr. Hinesjey and family of
Big A
No sickness to report.
Our boys are not scared about
fighting the Germans, since none
of them have married yet. Bui
an opportunity is required.
E, P. Strickland spent one
night last week in Big A.
L. S. Lambert and family spent
the week end with L. M. Lam
bert.
Prof, and Mrs. H. S. Brown
of.Mt. Zion, spent Sunday with
the former’s parents, Mr, and
Mrs. James Brown.
Paul Quren spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. W.‘B
Hudson.'
Little Misses Estelle Smith and
Arthie Lambert spent Sunday
with little Miss Adana Smith.
Miss /ilva Mae Duren spent
Saturday night with Miss Lillie
Mae Hudson.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Creel
spent, the week end with the lat
ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Wedding, on, of near Douglas
ville.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Beardin,
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Steed and L.
S. Lambert spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Lone Butler.
Some of the boys are catching
some nice fish.
Mrs. Lilia Lambert spent Sun
day with her mother, Mrs. W.
M. Morris, of Fair Play.
Messrs. Abb and Pearl Strawn
of Winston, made a business trip
to our burg Monday.
L. K. W.
H
Cross Plains, visited Rev. L. J.
Now Is The Time
To Buy A Farm
There never has been a
time when every thing you
-an grow on the farm would
command such high prices.
The man with a farm,
'o-day, is the most indepen
dent man in the world.
If You Want To Sell
List With Us Now
There will be a greater
demand for farm lands this
summer and fall than ever
before.
We can sell your farm if
the price is right. If we do
not sell there is absolutely
no cost to you.
DAKE & McLARTY
When In Doubt
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