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THE PEANUT— THE UNPREDICTABLE LEGUME 



Table 15. — Results of Peanut Spacing Tests, Upper Coastal Plain Station, 

 Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1947 



L. S. D. (051 Potash-levels, 196 pounds; row width, 306 pounds; row spacings, 189 pounds. 



Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Results. Spacing tests with 

 peanuts have been reported from several Texas substations. At Substa- 

 tion No. 11, Nacogdoches (12), Spanish peanuts were planted for 

 normal stand in 18- and 36-inch rows, 1914-1916. The average yields for 

 the 3-year period were 30 bushels of nuts and 0.59 tons of hay per acre 

 in the 36-inch rows and 32 bushels of nuts and 0.54 tons of hay per acre 

 in the 18-inch rows. 



Average yields from experiments at Substation No. 8, Lubbock (12), 

 conducted 1919-1923 and 1925, are given in table 17. Spanish peanuts 

 were used in these tests. Highest yields of both nuts and forage were 

 obtained from the 6-inch spacing between hills. 



Table 16. — ^Average Yields of Spanish Peanuts Spaced at Different Intervals, 

 Pee Dee Experiment Station, Florence, South Carolina, 1917-1919> 



a 800 pounds per acre of 2-8-3 fertilizer used 1917 and 1918; 470 pounds per acre used in 1919. 

 Shelled peanuts used in 1917 and 1918, and unshelled nuts used in 1919. 



