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DEMAND AND PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 
After the Civil War there sprang up in the cities and towns of the 
Northern United States a liking for roast ground-nuts, which are 
sold in the streets at every corner. The soldiers of the northern 
army brought back ei taste for them as a result of their invasion 
of the south (Annual Report, U.S. Dept. Agriculture, 1868, 
p. 220). Both Strait Sod 6 ccupied Virginia in turn, where the 
farmers all grew small tien for their own use. 
Reference to the Monthly Reports issued by the United States 
Department of Agriculture enables us to follow the growth of 
the demand. 
In those for 1869 we rip that in Virginia pears land which 
did not pay was being put to the new use of growing pea-nuts. 
In those for 1870 an account of the North Garcia” crop is given 
showing igi baer In 1871 (see Reports of that year, 
; rop of Virginia had reached 225,450 bushels, in ris 
(Reports for ‘1875, p- 512) it, had reached 382 610 bushe Is, and i 
1882 (Jones, The Pea-nut Plant, New York, 1896, p. 66) it porns 
1,250,000 bushels. Other States meanwhile were growing pea- 
nuts 8, as ores in which it was extending in 1872 (see 
Reports 488), produced in 1882 460,000 bushels, while North 
ansliia acta g in na same year 140 000 bushels. 
The heavy dem and insufficient production within the 
ae States fonters a trade between Africa and New York, &e., 
j yf the 
Department of Agr jovitwre: 1897, p. 340, demonstrate the 
decrease. 
Average sation Import of Pea-nuts and other Ground-nuts 
nto the United States, by decades 
Years. Quantity. | Value. 
1865-1870 as | ; 
[ae Gages Boke 6,522,844 184,465°49 
RAAB S: -s be |S 1,849,645 46,662°16 
1881-1890 ... ive en | ist 170,593 3,314°24 
1891-1897 ... die jee ee 149, 672 | 2,655°13 
SS) ee aS aE ee oe 
Shelled pea-nuts being excluded from the — table, that 
which follows from the same source supplements 
Average Annual Import of Shelled Pea-nuts and other 
Ground-nuts into the United States, by de decades. 
Years, Quantity, Value, 
Se ee ee 
Lbs, $ 
peseag nity ie ks 391, 13,713°89 
a 875,342 14.974-95 
Wellhee See 2223-97 
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