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Based on the average percentage of sound 

 nuts of each variety and of its oil content, the varieties 

 arranged according to the number of pounds of oil 

 produced per ton take the following rank: White 

 Spanish 702 pounds, Red Spanish 693 pounds, Valencia 

 572 pounds, McGovern 548 pounds, Tennessee Red 527 

 pounds. North Carolina Runner 524 pounds, Virginia 

 Runner 493 pounds, and Jumbo 354 pounds. 



The average yield of unshelled peanuts as reported 

 by Alabama oil mills, is estimated at 850 pounds per 

 acre. From a ton of Spanish peanuts the mills obtain 

 from 600 to 700 pounds of oil, and from 1200 to 1300 

 pounds of peanut cake. All the oil mills reporting pre- 

 ferred the White Spanish variety, except one mill 

 which preferred the North Carolina Runner because it 

 claimed that the yield of the latter per acre is in excess 

 of the other varieties. 



From many complete fertilizer tests with peanuts, 

 located in different parts of the State and covering 

 a period of six years, it is concluded: 



1. That acid phosphate at the rate of 200 to 300 

 pounds per acre produced a profitable increase in pea- 

 nuts grown on sandy and other soils that are well 

 adapted to this crop; 



2. That potash applied in the form of kainit at the 

 rate of 100 and 200 pounds per acre did not always 

 prove profitable, except in a few experiments located 

 on infertile sandy soil; 



3. That slaked lime at the rate of 600 pounds per 

 acre made a profitable increase in yield when applied 

 on sandy soil; 



4. That cottonseed meal as a source of nitrogen did 

 not give profitable increases in yield, and is, therefore, 

 not to be generally recommended for this leguminous 

 crop. 



The average yield of peanut straw (vines after re- 

 moval of peanuts) from four experiments varied from 

 2316 pounds of North Carolina Runner, to 1234 pounds 

 of Virginia Bunch per acre. The average percent of 

 dried unhulled peanuts to the weight of the whole 

 plant ranged from 32 percent in North Carolina Run- 

 ner, to 39 percent in Red Spanish. 



