MARKETING PEANUTS 
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SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST 
Shelling plants in the southern tier of States clean peanuts only 
to prepare them for the sheller, and therefore do not need to size 
the pods as is done with the Virginia-type peanuts. Accordingly, 
factories in the South do not handle their peanuts as many times, 
and less machinery is needed. 
A few plants in the South do not reclean their peanuts before 
shelling. As a consequence their finished products carry a heavier 
percentage of foreign material than is desirable, and their No. 2 
grades are not so bright and clean as they should be, because of the 
greater quantity of dirt and dust which finds its way into the machin- 
ery and adheres to the faces of the split nuts. 
Fig. 12.— Sewing a filled sack of peanuts in the shell— the last step before the peanuts are ready- 
to ship. The peanuts come through the bagging spout from a picking table shown in Figure 11 
In the Southeastern States no uniformity exists in the size of the 
bags used in sacking. Most shellers prefer the sack holding about 
120 pounds of shelled Spanish peanuts; some use the 100-pound 
sack; and a number of shellers ship in a bag holding around 125 
pounds. Shippers packing in the 40 by 45 inch, lOJ^-ounce sack 
say that the weight of the filled sacks averages 120 to 127 pounds 
for No. 1 Spanish, and 114 to 120 pounds for No. 2 Spanish. 
Oil stock in the Southeast consists mostly of screenings, except 
when farmers' stock is crushed straight, with none of it shelled. 
Samples of representative oil stock from Georgia shelling plants are 
seen in Figure 15. 
Runners for shelling are handled in much the same way in the 
Southeast as are Spanish. When prices of shelled goods are low, a 
larger proportion of Runners is crushed for oil or fed to hogs than of 
