of a large percentage of "pops" (empty pods). Excellent as were 
these fields, there can be no question but that a considerably 
increased yield- would have resulted from closer planting, — for 
the Spanish variety, say 2% feet, and the other varieties 3 ] 2 
feet apart. The crop sold readily at 6 cents per pound except the 
Spanish variety, which was sold in part at 5 cents per pound, and 
the balance was retained for home use in preference to any of the 
other varieties. The cash value of the nuts calculated to acre 
yields alone was as follows: Spanish, $98.00; Bunch Jumbo, 
$87.00; Running Jumbo, $100.80; Virginia Creeping, $105.60. 
The cost of production up to the time of harvest did not exceed 
$20.00 per acre, but the cost of stripping the nuts from the 
vines and sorting them afterwards amounted to almost 2 cents 
per pound, or an average of approximately $35.00 per acre. 
This makes a total cost of about $55.0 per acre to place the 
crop in bags ready for market. Doubtless this expense would 
be materially lessened with a more extended experience, espe- 
cially if women and children could be employed for the lighter 
but more tedious work of picking and sorting the nuts. In the 
above estimates no credit has been allowed for the cured tops. 
These gave an average yield of approximately l 1 /-} tons of cured 
fodder per acre. At a low estimation these should be worth 
$12.50 per ton, or an added value of $18.75 per acre, about the 
cost of producing the whole crop up to the harvest stage. 
Xumerous reports of the profitable culture of the peanut for 
home use have come to the Station. The Kamehameha Girls' 
School recently reported harvesting 93 pounds of sound nuts, 
from a piece of ground 26 x 50 feet square. This is equivalent 
to over 3,000 pounds of nuts per acre. While the work of strip- 
ping the nuts was found the most difficult part of their culture, 
here as elsewhere, it was in this case overcome by student labor, 
a suiiizestion for the utilization of our large population of school 
youth during vacation periods. To those acquainted with whole- 
some and profitable employment created by the lighter work 
about the orchards, vineyards and hop-fields in California and 
elsewhere, this suggestion will not seem impracticable. One of 
