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BULLETIN 1401, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
well displayed are half sold" should be heeded. The success of the 
5 and 10 cent stores in selling large quantities of salted peanuts is 
due to two factors: (1) Low prices and (2) placing the nuts where 
the public can not help seeing them. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PEANUTS 
Although peanuts are distributed widely over the country, a very 
large proportion of the domestic production is consumed east of the 
Mississippi and north of the Ohio Rivers. West of the Mississippi 
and especially west of the Rocky Mountains, oriental peanuts are 
a heavy competitor of the American product. Large shipments 
have gone to Canadian cities, and Cuba and other foreign countries 
have taken small quantities. Figures 21 to 24 show the distribution 
by States of shelled and cleaned peanuts, by sections and total, for 
the crop year 1923-24. The heaviest user of peanuts is Chicago, 
DISTRIBUTION OF PEANUT SHIPMENTS FROM VIRGINIA -N. CAROLINA 
SECTION BY CAR LOT EQUIVALENTS. 
CROP YEAR, 1923-24- 
Total circle represents carlot 
equivalents, of peanuts received 
% Shelled peanuts 
Unshelled peanuts 
Fig. 21. 
-Southern and western purchasers usually buy Virginias in the shell; northeastern buyers 
take more shelled goods 
the chief manufacturing center for both salted peanuts and peanut 
butter. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Cleveland follow in 
rank. Tabulations of the distribution of the 1920 to 1923 crops of 
peanuts by States of destination, are found on pages 94. and 95. 
CHARACTER OF RECEIPTS IN PRINCIPAL MARKETS 
A wide variation is found in the relative proportion of shelled and 
cleaned peanuts absorbed by different large cities. Inquiries of 
leading members of the trade in several large receiving centers a few 
years ago resulted in the following data, which have been revised 
in the light of recent tabulations and which can be considered as 
approximately accurate only over a series of years. 
The proportion of goods in the shell to the total peanut receipts 
of a city varies from 10 per cent at Chicago to 65 per cent at Balti- 
more. About one-fifth of the peanuts coming into Boston are in 
the shell, and one-third of the receipts at New York are in that class. 
Peanuts in the shell predominate in the arrivals at Minneapolis and 
