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BULLETIN" 1401, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
refrigerators or ventilated cars is possible and general. Apart from 
the fact that weevils may increase rapidly in shelled peanuts in 
the summer, there is no particular need for fast freight, which is 
another reason why the use of box cars and shipment by boat are 
satisfactory. Cars of new-crop peanuts, improperly cured, which 
have been shelled and rushed to market too quickly, have been 
known to heat and mold badly on the way. Shipment of poorly- 
cured nuts should not be attempted. 
No uniformity exists in the method of loading the cars of peanuts. 
Nearly every shipper seems to have a different way of arranging the 
sacks in the car. Sacks of shelled peanuts are usually loaded flat and 
crosswise of the car, 3 rows wide, but sometimes lengthwise of the 
Fig. 18.— Loading car of cleaned Virginia peanuts. Most cleaners do not stack peanuts in the 
shell more than five layers high 
car, 6 rows wide. Sometimes the sacks between the doors are only 
2 rows wide, crosswise, with the ends of the car loaded 3 rows wide. 
The sacks may be loaded uniformly the entire length of the car, 2 to 
3 layers high; may slope from 1 layer high at the door to 5 or 6 layers 
high in the ends of the car; or may be arranged in a dozen other ways. 
Occasionally the sacks are loaded on end, 6 or 7 rows wide, with 
sacks between the doors 2 layers high, 2 or 3 rows wide, crosswise. 
Some shippers prefer to leave the space between the doors empty, 
but boards are rarely used in this space as a bracing to keep the bags 
from falling down. 
