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TABLE II— SHOWING FEEDING VALUE OF PEANUT -HAY AND 



PEANUT KERNELS. 



I 5 



196 



Variety. 



Peanut Hay, vines and leaves 



d 

 M 



3 s 



1.65 



322 

 941 

 945 

 949 

 953 



, nuts or kernels 



Virginia Bunch, nuts or kernels 

 Virginia Bunch, nuts or kernels 



Spanish, nuts or kernels 



Running, nuts or kernels 



Average 



4.87 

 3.92 

 5.06 

 3.57 

 4.47 

 4.38 



29.12 

 29.50 

 27.62 

 28.37 

 25.37 

 27.99 



48.79 12.42 

 42.58 



43.67 

 48.80 

 46.41 

 46.05 



2.93 



1.90 

 2.41 

 2.56 

 2.41 

 2.43 

 2.34 



4.66 

 4.72 

 4.42 

 4.54 

 4.06 

 4.48 



Feeding Value of Vines. — When peanuts are picked off by machinery 

 the vines make a palatable and nutritious hay, provided it is properly 

 cured. This must be looked after carefully, as trouble may be caused 

 if the vines are allowed to mould. The hay is one of the chief sources 

 of roughage in the peanut counties of North Carolina and Virginia. 

 There are always some nuts and faulty peas left on the vines, and stock 

 doing light work during the winter do' very well on them without other 

 feed. An analysis is given in Table II, showing the feeding constit- 

 uents of the vines and leaves (or hay), and, as previously stated, the 

 feeding value is greater when the vines are cut early and not left until 

 the peas mature. In most cases, however, this is impossible. Sometimes 

 the Bunch varieties are cultivated level, and just before frost the vines 

 are mown for hay and the nuts left for hogs. Under these conditions the 

 land will improve in productiveness. 



Taken altogether, the peanut is one of the best crops to grow on land 

 suited to it, as all parts of it are valuable for either human or animal 

 food and no part is lost. Besides, when properly handled the soil will 

 increase in fertility under its growth. 



