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THE PEANUT— THE UNPREDICTABLE LEGUME 



Table 7. — Effect of Lime upon Yields of Several Varieties of Peanuts. 

 Arkansas Experiment Station,"* 1940. (68) 



* Applied in the row before planting at the rate of 880 pounds of air-slacked lime per acre. 

 •> Hay yields include weights of nuts. 



• No information was presented relative to the experimental design, replications, or the magnitude 

 of differences which might be considered to be significant. 



<> Bolivar silt loam. pH = S.42-5.65. 



Table 8. — Effect of Gypsum on Yield of Several Peanut Varieties. Norfolk 

 Sand. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. (65) 



Variety 



5 Year Avefi J!>23/24/25/26/2S 



Gypsum^ 



No 

 Gypsum 



Increase Over 

 No Gypsum 



Pounds 

 per Acre 



Pdunds 

 per Acre 



Pounds 

 per Acre 



Spanish (Florida) . . . 

 Spanish (Improved) 



Valencia 



Va. Bunch 



Va. Runner" 



Jumbo 



Fla. Runner 



661 

 618 

 591 

 994 

 801 

 1,100 

 1,047 



647 

 580 

 552 

 930 

 950 

 786 

 995 



14 

 38 

 39 

 64 

 -149 

 314 

 52 



■ Gypsum applied as top dressing at the rate of 600 i>ounds per acre as peanuts started to bloom, 

 k The 1927 peanut crop was destroyed by rodents. Continuous peanuts on the same plots from 1923 

 to 1928. All plots planted to oats in fall of year and turned in spring several weeks before peanut planting. 

 The Virginia Runner was not in the test in 1923 and consequently has a 4-year average. 



