our prominent citizens has suggested this as a possible solution 
of the labor problem in picking cotton, should that industry 
become established in the islands, and the same service could 
doubtless be utilized in other ways. 
USES OF THE PEANUT. 
Some of the principal uses of the peanut have already been 
touched upon. At first thought the cash value of the nut crop 
might be considered of greatest importance, but in Hawaii, 
where the cost of nitrogenous feed-stuffs is exceptionally high, 
and in great demand, the fodder value of the plant, including 
the nuts, may prove more valuable than for any other purpose. 
With live hogs at 10 cents per pound, as at present, and for a 
decade past, there would appear to be more profit in feeding the 
crop to hogs than in disposing of the crop in any other way. 
The Alabama Experiment Station found that hogs run on pea- 
nut pasture produced a pound of pork on the following amounts 
of grain: Peanuts, 1.77 pounds; cow peas, 3.07 pounds; 
sweet potatoes, 3.13 pounds; sorghum, 3.70 pounds. The 
Arkansas Station reports that one-fourth of an acre planted to 
peanuts produced 313 pounds of pork as compared to 109 
pounds from a plat of the same size planted to corn. Many 
other results could be quoted to show the superior feeding value, 
pound for pound and acre for acre, of peanuts over any other 
feed that can be grown where peanuts thrive. Analyses show 
peanut hay to have a higher feeding value than California wheat 
hay, and approaching that of alfalfa. In the South it is exten- 
sively fed to horses, mules, cattle and sheep, and milch cows 
respond to the ration, while all kinds of poultry relish both the 
fodder and seed. The advantages of feeding the crop on the 
farm are two-fold. In the first place, the large item of expense 
in picking and grading the nuts is eliminated, and secondly the 
valuable by-product, manure, is retained for further enriching 
the land. 
As human food the peanut is constantly gaining in favor, 
and forms a regular article of diet in many households. Peanut 
