Mammoth Russian Sunflower 
Peanuts 
The best variety for the farmer, as it makes 
heads nearly double the size of the common kind, 
and makes a much larger yield of seed. Will 
yield under favorable conditions, 40 to 60 bushels 
to the acre and yields of as high as 125 bushels 
have been reported under exceptionally favorable 
conditions. It is highly recommended for poultry, 
and the best egg-producing food known, and the 
leaves make excellent fodder, relished by all kinds 
of stock. The seed is a good food for horses, and 
yields a line quality of oil. The strong, thick 
stalks can also be used for fuel. Cultivate the 
same as corn. When the seed is ripe and hard, 
cut off the heads and pile loosely in a rail-pen 
having a solid floor, or in a corn crib. After cur- 
ing sufficiently, so that they will thresh easily, 
flay out and run through a threshing machine, 
and clean with an ordinary fanning mill. Some 
species of sunflower are largely planted in the 
flower-garden for ornament. 
Canada Field Peas 
(Pisum arvense) 
This is a crop which is not only profitable but 
will return to the land the much-needed nitrogen. 
These Peas are second only to clover in their 
soil-enricliing properties, and can be grown un- 
der almost any condition of soil or climate. 
There is always a ready market for Peas, or they 
can be profitably ground and fed to the stock. 
The vines make rich, nutritious hay. If fed when 
in a green state, pods, vines and all to milch 
cows, the flow of milk will be almost doubled. 
Peas are a paying crop, and can be profitably 
planted in many ways. 
First. When sown alone, about 3 bushels are 
required to the acre. After maturing they should 
be threshed when dry. The yield will vary from 
30 to 60 bushels per acre. 
Second. Peas and oats are frequently sown to- 
gether, using iy 2 bushels of Peas and 2 bushels 
of oats to an acre. By so doing a double crop 
can be secured. They can be threshed at one 
time and readily separated in cleaning. 
Third. They can be sown alone or with oats, 
and fed green. It is surprising the amount of 
fodder which is produced in this way. If sown 
together, the Peas should be sown first and plow- 
ed under about 4 inches deep; the oats may then 
be drilled in. 
Fourth. For plowing under when Peas and oats 
are sown together, and each are “in milk," they 
are nearly equal in value to clover, used in the 
same way, to enrich the soil. 
Sow in January, February or early March. 
peanuts should be planted on light, loamy soil 
or sand soil and will prove one of the most profit- 
able crops that can be grown. They yield very 
largely — yields of 50 bushels per acre being re- 
ported on land too poor to plant in corn. In ad- 
dition to the yield of nuts, they yield quite large- 
ly of nutritious forage, and will yield ordinarily 
about a ton of excellent dry forage per acre, in 
addition to the crop of nuts. 
Feanuts should always be shelled before being 
planted. They should be planted in May or early 
June, in rows about 2 y 2 to 3 feet apart, dropping 
the nuts 8 to 10 inches apart, one in a hill. Cover 
one or two inches deep. Cultivate three or four 
times with a cultivator, so as to loosen the earth 
and keep down weeds, and at last working, with 
a small turn-plow throw the dirt to the nuts. Do 
not cultivate too late in the season, as late culti- 
vation is likely to injure the formation of the 
nuts. It is also advisable to make an application 
of lime, scattering it on top of the row just after 
planting, and to use a top-dressing of land plaster 
just after the last working. Peanuts require 
plenty of lime to make first-class nuts, and the 
use of lime and land-plaster as above mentioned 
is recommended by the most successful growers. 
In harvesting, plow the peanuts, and then stack 
against stakes stuck into the ground, the roots 
with the peanuts on them, to the center, and the 
leaves outside. 
On a small plot, four rows 12 feet long, in a 
garden near Lexington one bushel and a peck of 
peanuts were dug this Fall. Try them in your 
garden this season. 
SPANISH. — Rather small pods, but very early 
and extremely productive. The nuts are rich and 
highly flavored. This variety is also used for 
stock feeding. The entire plant being harvested 
and making very nutritious feed. 
IMPROVED VIRGINIA.— Grows upright and 
produces heavy crops of large nuts. 
Peanuts. 
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