MARKETING PEANUTS 
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Table 2. — Steamship rates on peanuts January 1, 1925, except where otherwise 
specified 
To— 
Shelled or unshelled 
Rate per hundred 
pounds 
Car- ' Less 
loads carloads 
Norfolk, Va 
New York, N. Y.i 
/Shelled 
Cents \ Cents 
331/21 45 
38 48 
lUnshelled 
/Shelled.— 
39 49 
lUnshelled 
Houston, Tex .... 
41^1 51^ 
2 102^ 154 
Do . 
Shelled or unsheDed.._ 
/Shelled 
Do- 
85 
110 
30 
27 
8OK2 
27 
30 
85 
?60 
3 100 
120 
lUnshelled 
Boston, Mass 
145 
Savannah, Ga. .- 
Shelled 
30 
Do 
New York, N. Y _ 
do 
do 
27 
Do... 
114 
Charleston, S. C 
New York, N. Y 
. -do 
27 
Do. . 
Boston, Mass 1. 
Pacific coast ports 
New York, N. Y., and other 
Atlantic coast ports. 
do 
do 
/Shelled 
30 
Do 
120 
San Francisco and other Pa- 
60 
cific coast ports. 
lUnshelled 
100 
In addition to these rates, wharfage and handling charges of varying amounts are often charged at the 
port of shipment. 
1 Effective July 15, 1925. 
2 Carload minimum weight, 30,000 pounds 
3 No carload minimum weight specified. 
LEADING CENTERS OF PRODUCTION AND SHIPMENT 
Peanuts are grown throughout all the Southern States but com- 
mercial production is chiefly confined to rather limited areas. Clean- 
ing and shelling plants and crushing mills have sprung up where 
production was heavy, but often farmers' stock peanuts are pur- 
chased at a considerable distance from the factory and shipped to it 
in carload lots. Sometimes these shipments travel several hundreds 
of miles. The leading shipping States for shelled peanuts do not 
coincide with the leading States of production, as will be seen by a 
comparison of Tables 3 and 4 : 
Table 3. — Leading producing States for peanuts — average of 1920-1923 crops 1 
State 
Pounds 
State 
Pounds 
North Carolina .. 
138, 691, 000 
136, 137, 000 
117, 074, 000 
109, 152, 000 
105, 266, 000 
Alabama 
Florida 
50, 812, 000 
29, 227, 000 
Virginia. -., 
9, 296, 000 
1 Compiled from Weekly Report— Peanuts, No. 292, Jan. 28, 1925, issued by the Bureau of Agricultural 
Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mimeographed. Basis: Unshelled farmers' goods. 
Table 4.- 
-Leading shipping States for shelled and cleaned peanuts- 
of 1920-21 to 1923-24 seasons 2 
-average 
State 
Pounds 
State 
Pounds 
Virginia _ 
-. 166,011,000 
Texas 
22, 851, 000 
Georgia 
.. 84,264,000 
8, 424, 000 
Alabama .. 
34,746,000 
Florida . 
Tennessee 
5, 124, 000 
North Carolina 
27, 165, 000 
1,264,000 
2 Reduced to unshelled figures on arbitrary basis of 2 pounds shelled being equivalent to 3 pounds un- 
shelled. Figures do not include shipments to points having shelling or crushing mills. 
