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(A good type of peanut digger. 
Gtorgb itOOk, underneath which Ls mounted a U-shaped bar, which is so arranged that it will 
i ut oil the roots of the peas and lift the plants from the ground. The cost of this machine is 
about $».. 
88« Machine potato digger adapted for ^%B? w g peanuts. 
29, Machine potato digger being used for digging peanuts 
80. Stacking peanute to cure. 
Stake around which to build stack. 
81. Stacking peanuts to cure. 
The stack partially constructed, with one layer of vines around the pole, all of the peas to the 
enter, and the stack high in the middie. 
'\-2. Stacking peanuts. 
Showing the various operations from the carrying of the vines with the seed fork, the beginning 
of the stack, and the finishing of the stack, together with completed stacks in the background. 
33, A poorly built peanut stack, with a large number of the peanuts exposed to the 
weather and the ravages of birds. 
34. A properly 1 milt peanut stack, with all of the peas to the center. 
85, Picking peanuts by hand in a Virginia peanut field. 
36. Picking peanuts from the vines by means of machinery. 
37. Another type of peanut picker. 
38. Peanut picker fitted for driving with horsepower. 
This machine is also made for applied or engine power. 
39. Common type of peanut picker used for picking Spanish peanuts. 
40. Device installed in some of the peanut-picking machines f<>r the removal of the 
little stems from the pod-. 
This consists of a set of gin saws operated between horizontal iron bars. 
41. One-horse device sometimes used for hauling peanut stacks to the thrasher. 
42. Type of bag used for handling peanuts. 
This bag holds approximately 4 bushels or about 90 pounds of the Jumbo or Virginia peas, or 
110 to 120 of the Spanish peas. 
43. Three leading types of peanuts. 
44. Plant and nuts of the Virginia Bunch or Jumbo pea. 
45. Plant and nuts of the Spanish. 
46. Marketing of peanuts. 
Great quantities of peanuts are handled during the shipping season in the Virginia-Carolina 
district. Steamer loaded with bags of peanuts. 
47. A modern peanut warehouse and cleaning factory. 
48. Value of peanut hay as compared with other hays. 
49. Value of peanut waste products. 
This includes small or broken parts of kernels ami peanut meal as compared with cottonseed 
meal, corn meal, and wheat bran. 
50. Peanuts planted in the alleys between rows of corn. 
This is a practice often followed in Georgia, where many thousands of acres of peanuts are 
grown in this way, the corn rows being about 5 feet apart and the peanuts planted in a small 
bed in the center at the time of laying by the corn. The crop is sometimes harvested, but 
more often fe<l to the hogs in the field. 
REFERENCES. 
1. Origin of Cultivated Plants. DeCandolle. 
2 Experiments with Peanute etc.). Arkansas Sta. BuL 68. 
3. Peanuts. Arkansas Sta. Bui. 84. 
4. The Peanut and Its Culture. By W. X. Roper, Petersburg, Va., 1905. 
5. Southern Field Crops. By J. F. Duggar. New York, 1911. 
