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selves, are one of the best known feeds for growing 

 pigs. Older hogs will also fatten on them rapidly, 

 and although the meat is very sweet and fine in 

 flavor it shrinks somewhat in cooking, and the lard is 

 soft and oily ; it is, therefore, best to finish off peanut- 

 fed pigs with a few weeks on corn. The peanut 



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usually grown for commercial purpose has a trailing, 

 prostrate growth, but the small Spanish peanut 

 grows erect and the tops are much more available for 

 forage, as it can even be cut for hay ; the nuts, too, 

 fill better on average soils than the larger running 

 kinds and, everything considered, it is the most 



