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riation from 67.5 i)crcent of meats in Cullman to 50.5 

 percent in Lee. 



By grouping the tests into northern and southern 

 divisions and taking averages, the following results are 

 obtained : 



Table III. Average Percentage of Sound Nuts (Meats) 



in Unliulled Peanuts Grown in Soutli Alabama and 



in North Alabama. 



It is noticed that some varieties yield a higher per- 

 centage of meats in one section of the State than they 

 do in another section. This difference may be due in 

 part to the longer time required by some varieties to 

 grow and mature. The running varieties, like North 

 Carolina and Tennessee Red, which are late^ have in 

 these experiments averaged a larger percent of meats 

 when grown in the southern than in the northern sec- 

 tion, while the Spanish varieties, which are early, and 

 also the Valencia, have in these tests shelled out a 

 larger percent of sound peas in the northern than in 

 the southern section. 



Description of Varieties of Peanuts. 



The many different names used both for distinct 

 varieties and for those whose characters do not mark 

 them as distinct are confusing. It is unfortunate that 

 some seedsmen and farmers, zealous to sell seed, 

 should attach new names to old varieties, and thereby 

 confuse and mislead the buyer. There is no objection 

 to a grower attaching some distinguishing mark to a 

 greatly improved strain or to a distinctly new variety, 

 but it sliould be shown that he has improved the old 

 variety or found a distinctly new one. If the originator 

 would tell the true source of his improved strain or 



