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course of a day. Moreover, the grower must assume the cost of 
extra bags necessary in sacking trash, dirt, sticks, etc. The cleaner 
loses both in the added expense of separating the pods from dirt 
and trash, and in paying peanut prices for this material, and some- 
body pays transportation charges on the foreign material. The 
cleaner's only recourse is to reduce his buying price, and bags con- 
taining more than the average of foreign matter are docked heavily 
if detected. The grower is paid for the gross weight of the bags 
and their contents. 
GRADES IN SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 
Spanish and Runner types of peanuts are all shelled before they 
are shipped from the peanut belt. Therefore, the principal factor 
in determining the value of farmers' stock of these types is the 
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Fig. 5. — Farmers' stock Spanish peanuts, well picked (left) and poorly picked (right). (Reduced 
one-half) 
quantity of good kernels that can be shelled from a given lot. And 
since they do not move into consumption in the shell, the size of the 
pod is immaterial in determining the grade or the price to be paid, 
as is the case with peanuts of the Virginia type. Well-picked and 
poorly picked lots of farmers' stock Spanish peanuts are seen in 
Figure 5. 
In response to many requests from southeastern shellers, and to 
provide definite grades for use in connection with the United States 
warehouse act, careful investigations were made, and in September, 
1923, the United States Department of Agriculture offered tentative 
grades 9 for farmers' stock Spanish. These grades, revised to 
September 1, 1925, follow: 
U. S. No. 1 shall consist of unshelled White Spanish peanuts which are mature, 
dry, free from damage from any cause and which will not pass through a screen of 
the type customarily in use, having £| by % inch perforations. 
9 These and other Federal grades in this bulletin are subject to revision. Latest copies can be secured 
from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department ot Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
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