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BULLETIN 1401, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Old, patched, second-hand sacks are never desirable. The bags 
should be clean and strong, even if not new. The bags are sewed 
across the top (fig. 12) with strong twine, ears being left on either 
end. If the two edges of the bag are rolled over once or twice before 
being sewed, they stay more securely. An average bag of jumbo 
peanuts weighs about 91 pounds; most fancys run 101 to 106 pounds 
to the bag, averaging 104; and extras average around 93 pounds to 
the bag. 
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Fig. 9.— Grades of Virginia type peanuts in the shell. Peanuts in left-hand column are jumbos; 
those in the center, fancys; while those in the right-hand column]are extras. (Reduced one-third) 
SHELLING PROCESSES 
VIRGIXIA-XORTH CAROLINA SECTION 
Shelled Virginia peanuts are customarily made from the lower 
grades of farmers' goods. Such ill-shaped, badly discolored pods 
and blow-outs as are not placed in the extra grade, as well as some 
of the smaller-sized pods, are used for shelling. Cleaners who do 
not make an extra grade sometimes shell this class of goods. Oc- 
casionally, as happened during the summer of 1922, shelled Virginias 
may command a sufficient premium over cleaned stock to warrant 
shelling large quantities of farmers' goods straight. All grades of 
Spanish type peanuts are shelled, as Spanish peanuts are not sold in 
the shell. 
