marketing peanuts 
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PEANUT BUTTER IN BULK 
Bulk peanut butter, often prepared from inferior grades of peanuts, 
is sold in enormous quantities in tins of 8 ounces to 50 pounds capac- 
ity. Considerable demand has also developed for tubs, barrels, and 
tierces of bulk peanut butter. 
The sale of bulk peanut butter, as conducted at present, is open 
to several serious objections. Retailers frequently do not take 
Fig. 30. — Filling glass jars with peanut butter. The peanuts drop into the hopper at the top of 
the mill, are ground up, nothing but salt is added, and the completed product, peanut butter, 
comes from the spout 
proper care in dispensing the product, and the tin or tub is often 
uninviting in appearance. Further, as bulk butter is often made 
from No. 2 peanuts, it necessarily contains more or less dirt, grit, and 
hearts and skins of shriveled peanuts. 
A few factories even use No. 3 peanuts in making butter, sometimes 
called " confectioners' peanut butter." As they come from the clean- 
