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This table shows great ditlereiices in weight of 

 single nuts and peas of different varieties, and in the 

 number of peas per pod. Virginia Bunch yielded on 

 an average in 6 tests only 46 percent of sound peas, 

 which indicates the tendency of running varieties to 

 produce pops when soil conditions are unfavorable. 

 The White Spanish yielded 75.1 percent by weight of 

 sound peas. This difTerence in yield is an important 

 factor in determining the price that oil mills can afford 

 to pay for nuts to crush. 



The heaviest unhulled nuts are found in the Tennes- 

 see Red variety (246 pods to the pound). The lightest 

 unhulled nuts are in the White Spanish (461 ])ods to 

 the pound), which are considerably smaller than those 

 of the Red Spanish. Virginia Bunch, closely followed 

 by Jumbo and Virginia Runner, produce the heaviest 

 shelled peas — if we take no account of the pops, or 

 defective peas. 



Relative Value of Varieties for Production of Oil. 



The Analj^ses of Nine Varieties of Peanuts Grown in 

 Different Parts of Alabama. 



In Table V the analyses * of one sample of each va- 

 riety for different years arc shown in columns 1 and 2. 

 The chemical analyses arc based on composite samples 

 of shelled nuts of each variety, made up of nuts grown 

 that year in several different localities. 



