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BULLETIN 1401, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Figure 19 shows graphically the leading areas of production based 
on figures in the 1920 census. The sections of heaviest production 
centered around southeastern Virginia and northeastern North 
Carolina, and southwestern Georgia and southeastern Alabama. 
These are also the States which ship cleaned and shelled peanuts 
most heavily, although not in the same proportions as they produce 
them. In addition, peanut plants are located in Texas, Florida, 
South Carolina, and Tennessee; but none are to be found at present 
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, although all of 
these States produce peanuts. Tabulations of the movement of 
the 1920 to 1923 crops by States of shipment will be found in Table 
11 on page 92. 
An inexact picture of the relationship between production and 
shipments would be presented if no mention were made of the move- 
Fig. 19.— The production of peanuts centers largely in southeastern Virginia, northeastern North 
Carolina, southwestern Georgia, and southeastern Alabama 
ment of peanut oil. For the year 1920-21, in addition to shipments 
of about 2,000,000 pounds from Texas and Virginia, a total of nearly 
19,000,000 pounds of crude peanut oil was shipped from the South- 
east alone. Even more peanut oil moved the following season. 
For the past two or three years, the high price of shelled peanuts has 
been effective in confining crushing very largely to factory screenings, 
No. 3 shelled peanuts, and farmers' stock too poor in quality and 
condition to warrant shelling, although in 1925 many cars of low- 
grade No. 2 peanuts were crushed. 
Peanut shipments from the Southeast move chiefly from points 
in Georgia; southeastern peanut oil, on the contrary, is largely 
shipped from mills in Alabama towns. Tabulations of the ship- 
ments of domestic crude peanut oil from October 25, 1920, to October 
26, 1924, by States of origin and destination, appear in Table 14 
on page 97. 
