PLANTS WHOSE SEEDS WE EAT IOI 



march found a pocketful no burden, and often a 

 great boon. 



It was the soldier mustered out at the end of 

 the war that sent back to Virginia for seed, and he 

 planted peanuts on his farm to let the home folks 

 taste that "goober" he had talked so much about. 

 So the northern peanut appetite was a by- 

 product of the War of the Rebellion. 



The centre of peanut culture is still near its 

 starting point, Virginia. North Carolina and 

 Virginia each raise over four million bushels a 

 year. Georgia raises half as many. Thirty- 

 eight states can grow goobers. The crop brings 

 over ten million dollars a year. We Americans 

 eat all the nuts we raise, and import quantities 

 beside from Spain, and from China and Japan! 

 We certainly have the peanut habit! 



There will come a day, perhaps, when we grow 

 all our peanuts at home. It is expensive to bring 

 them from abroad. The Pacific coast has begun 

 to grow great crops in the sandy soil of the Great 

 Valley of California. Home-grown nuts will soon 

 supply the market on this side of the mountains. 

 Texas is growing stupendous crops of Spanish 

 varieties, which yield three times as much as 

 the Carolina and Virginia fields average, by the 

 easy-going methods of culture in use. Tennessee 



