MARKETING PEANUTS 3 
over, mills crushing cottonseed welcome the peanut to their communi- 
ties, as it furnishes employment for their plants after the cottonseed 
crush is over. A tabulation of the acreage, yield per acre, and pro- 
duction of peanuts harvested for nuts from 1920 through 1924, will 
be found on page 87„ 
LEADING VARIETIES OF PEANUTS 
At least nine domestic varieties of peanuts are now generally 
recognized as showing sufficiently definite characteristics to be classed 
separately. The Virginia Bunch, Virginia Runner, and Jumbo are all 
large-podded, with a reddish skin covering the nut. They differ 
chiefly in the size of the pod and nut. It is thought that these three 
were originally one variety, a running plant. A few plants having 
a bunch habit of growth were noticed among the Runners, segregated, 
and developed into a distinct variety known as the Virginia Bunch, 
which is generally larger than the procumbent Runner. The Jumbo 
has come from selected strains of large size Bunch and Runners, and 
can now be considered a fixed variety. The Jumbo variety is distinct 
from the jumbo grade, 5 which may consist of selected large nuts from 
either the Virginia Bunch, Virginia Runner, or Jumbo varieties. The 
Virginia varieties are grown chiefly in southeastern Virginia, north- 
eastern North Carolina, and central Tennessee. 
The White Spanish peanut, which is grown from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific, is the most widely distributed variety in the South. 
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Texas are the leading States in its 
production, with lesser quantities in the Piedmont section of Virginia 
and North Carolina, in southern South Carolina, and with light pro- 
duction in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and 
California. The pods are of small size, and the skin covering the nut 
is of a brownish shade, as compared with the reddish color of the skin 
of the Virginia type. The plant is upright in growth, and is har- 
vested easily, as the pods are closely centered near the surface of the 
ground. 
LESS IMPORTANT VARIETIES 
The Improved Spanish has a larger pod than the White Spanish, of 
which it is a strain. Commercially, it is usually sold as White 
Spanish. 
Other varieties include the Valencia, found in the vicinity of 
Wakefield, Va.; the Tennessee Red Skin and the Tennessee White 
Skin, grown to a slight extent in Georgia and Tennessee; and the 
African, which is produced chiefly in the neighborhood of Wilmington, 
N. C, and for this reason is sometimes called the " Wilmington. 5 ' 
Although locally prominent in limited areas none of • these five 
varieties are commercially important. 
COMMERCIAL TYPES OF PEANUTS 
Three types of domestic peanuts have become recognized in the 
channels of trade — the Virginia and the Spanish, already mentioned, 
and the Runner, sometimes called the " Georgia Runner" or " Ala- 
bama Runner" to distinguish it from the Virginia Runner, although 
5 Specifications for the jumbo and other grades, as defined by the National Peanut Cleaners and Shellers 
Association, are to be found on page 31. 
