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TttE PEANUT— THE UNPREDICTABLE LEGUME 



Table 20. — Average Number of Plants per 100 Feet of Row and Average 

 Yield of Spanish Peanuts when Planted at Different Dates, Using 

 Different Rates and Conditions of Seed; Various Locations, Alabama, 



1943-1946" 



» First planting was about the date of the last killing frost and varied from March 9 m extreme 

 southern Alabama to April 17 in northern Alabama. The other plantings were made at 2-week intervals 

 following the first planting. 



>> Average of 23 tests at the eight following locations: Fairhope, Brewton, Headland, Prattville. 

 Auburn, Alexandria, Crossville and Belle Mina. 



" Yield data from 14 tests at six following locations: Fairhope, Prattville, Auburn, Alexandria, Cross- 

 ville and Belle Mina. 



shelled, hand-shelled and machine-shelled seed. In these tests unshelled 

 seed germinated only 58 percent and hand-shelled seed 72 percent. 



In tests by the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station (8), No. 

 1 hand-shelled Spanish peanut seed germinated better and yielded more 

 nuts than either unshelled or small shriveled seed — often called "pegs." 

 Emergence results from various seed types are presented in table 2''.. 



Table 21.- 



-Field Emergence of Spanish Peanut Seed Types, Georgia Coastal 

 Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia, 1942-1944 



