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ence, that the McGovern seems to have more resistance 

 to rotting of the nuts and to leaf spot. The stems of 

 McGovern are long, slender and spreading. 



The pods of the North Car®lina are small, and do 

 not cling well to the stems when tlie vines are pulled 

 up. A pod usually has two small reddish peas. This 

 variety is late. It required about 440 pods to weigh a 

 pound, and yielded about 66 percent meats. The per- 

 centage of oil found was 26.2 percent, or 524 pounds in 

 a ton of unshelled pods. A bushel is assumed to weigh 

 22 pounds. 



Virginia Runner. — This variety is sometimes called 

 Virginia Improved. It resembles, in habit of growth, 

 the North Carolina or African variety, except that its 

 pods are considerably larger. Its pods and peas, in 

 size and color, closely resemble those of the Virginia 

 Bunch variety; 279 pods weighed a pound, and yielded 

 53.1 percent of meats. This variety yields 24.6 percent 

 of ott, or 493 pounds per ton. 



Jumbo. — Under this name, seedsmen have listed a 

 running Jumbo and a bunch Jumbo. The two resemble 

 each other in every respect, except in habit of growth 

 of vines. In habit of growth and size of pods these 

 two forms closely resemble the Virginia Bunch and 

 Virginia Runner. Of the Jumbo samples studied, 276 

 of the pods weighed a pound, and yielded only 41 

 percent of meats. It seems that the name Jumbo has 

 been applied to large nuts, and does not represent a 

 distinct variety. A Jumbo may be a Virginia Bunch or 

 a Virginia Runner, or even a Tennessee Bunch. 



The varieties grown under the name of Jumbo aver- 

 aged lowest in oil, 17.7 per cent, or 354 pounds of oil 

 in a ton of unshelled peanuts. 



Based on the average percent of oil and of sound 

 peas, the varieties of unshelled peanuts take the fol- 

 lowing rank in pounds of oil per ton : 



White Spanish 702 



Red Spanish 693 



Valencia 572 



McGovern 548 



Tennessee Red 527 



North Carolina Runner 524 



Virginia Runner _ 493 



Jumbo 354 



