PEANUTS— TESTS OF VARIETIES AND 



FERTILIZERS 

 By 



J. F. DUGGAR, 

 E. F. (IXUTIIEN, 



J. T. Williamson, 

 O. H. Sellers. 



Summary. 



The iivoiiige yield of uiislielled peanuts obtained 

 from regular variety tests, made in dilTercnt parts of 

 the Slate and covering a period of five j^ears, ranged 

 from 871 ])()unds of McGovern to 1244 pounds of Red 

 Spanish i)er acre. Taking the yield of Red Spanish as 

 a basis (100 percent), the percentage yield of the differ- 

 ent varieties averaged as follows: 



Red Spanish KtO Tennessee Red 86 



Valencia 1)1 Virginia Bunch 80 



White Spanish 88 Virginia Runner 85 



McGovern 87 North Carolina Runner ._. 84 



The average percentage of shelled nuts or "meats" 

 of each varfety, obtained by carefully weighing and 

 hand-shelling a given amount of dry unshelled peanuts, 

 shows a remarkably wide variation, from 39.3 per- 

 cent in Jundjo to 75.1 percent in White S])anish. The 

 true commercial value of the crop of an acre is based, 

 not on the number of pounds of unhulled peanuts, but 

 on the number of pounds of "meats" produced. 



The connnon varieties of peanuts are divided into 

 two great classes — those having an upright or bunch 

 habit of growth, and those having a low spreading or 

 running habit. To the bunch varieties belong the White 

 Spanish, Red Spanish, Valencia, Virginia Bunch, and 

 Tennessee Red. Among the running varieties are the 

 North Carolina or African, Virginia Runner, McGovern, 

 and the Running Jumbo. 



In a number of experiments (Table IV) there were 

 found great differences in the weight of single unshell- 

 ed peanuts, of "peas" of different varieties, and the 

 average percentage of sound "peas" per pod. The 

 heaviest unshelled peanuts were the Tennessee Red 



