a superior hay for horses, cattle and sheep, while the under- 
ground portion yields the nuts, which, acre for acre, is said to 
be more nutritious than the best corn or root crop that could be 
grown on the same type of land. The crop may be pastured, 
cured as fodder, or harvested with a view to disposing of the 
nuts as a money crop. Being a leguminous plant, it builds up 
the land through its power to utilize atmospheric nitrogen. Its 
roots are nearly always well supplied with the nitrifying bac- 
teria nodules, an indication that the plant is performing this 
«r* \ ;•• Valuable function. For this reason and because it is a tilled 
crop,*-which leaves the soil mellow, it is well adapted for rota- 
tion with other crops. Furthermore, the crop grows with a less 
amount of moisture and on lands too sandy for corn and some 
other of the more common Hawaiian forage crops. 
Recognizing the possible value of the improved peanut to 
'' % '"■' fffui Hawaiian agriculture, this Station in 1908 imported from a 
leading grower in Virginia 150 pounds choice seed of the fol- 
lowing varieties : Spanish, Bunch Jumbo, Running Jumbo, and 
Virginia Creeping. These are illustrated in their natural size 
in Plate I. The seed was widely distributed over the islands 
and a number of favorable reports were received showing that 
the peanut would thrive over a wide territory. The best results 
appear invariably to have been obtained on light soils with mod- 
erate moisture. Heavy soils and wet locations proved in most 
cases unsuited. These results have been largely confirmed in 
the Station experiments, although fair yields and a fair quality 
of nut have been obtained on the medium heavy and moist 
mauka lands of the Station, and under similar conditions in 
Kalihi and Manoa valleys on Oahu. But the nuts grown under 
snch conditions are always more or less discolored. 
The following table summarizes the results obtained by the 
Station in small plantings and in more extensive co-operative 
experiments with outside growers. 
