APPENDIX. 
LANTERN SLIDES. 
No. of 
view. 
1. General view of peanut field about the middle of summer. 
2. Map of United States, darkened portion indicating the area naturally adapted 
to the growing of peanuts. 
3. Portion of peanut plant, showing the flower and the little pegs that enter the 
soil and form the pods. 
4. The peanut's way of showing its gratitude to the soil. 
Roots of peanut plant covered with nitrogen-gathering nodules. 
5. Crop rotation plan for a peanut farm in the Virginia-Carolina district. 
6. Crop rotation plan for growing peanuts in southern districts. 
7. Type of disk plow adapted to fitting loose sandy lands for peanuts. 
8. Acme harrow, a type of tool adapted for preparing the soil for peanuts. 
9. Showing the quantity of plant food removed where the entire root system of 
the peanut is taken from the soil. 
By proper methods of harvesting the greater portion of this nitrogen, which amounts to $16 
an acre, will be left in the soil. 
10. On soils containing an abundance of potash this portion of the fertilizer can be 
eliminated. 
11. Soil improvement. 
Field of corn without the addition of cowpeas 
12. Soil improvement. 
Field of corn with cowpeas growing in the rows. A suitable cropping system to be followed 
the year preceding peanuts. 
13. Manure spreader used for scattering lime on peanut field. 
14. One-horse fertilizer drill used for sowing fertilizer for peanuts. 
The ordinary cotton fertilizer drill can also be used for this purpose. 
15. Improvement of peanut varieties by seed selection. 
Rows of peanuts planted from the product of individual plants. 
16. Improvement of peanut varieties by seed selection. 
Weeding out unproductive plants in the seed patch. 
17. Scene in a Virginia peanut field during planting time. 
18. View of one-horse peanut planter. 
19. Peanut-planting machine in operation. 
20. Dropping peanuts by hand in a small furrow opened by a single-shovel plow. 
21. Covering peanuts with a one-horse cultivator after dropping them by hand. 
22. Five-tooth, one-horse cultivator adapted to all phases of peanut cultivation. 
23. Old method of harvesting peanuts by plowing them from the soil. 
24. Plow type of peanut digger. 
25. Roots of peanut plant. 
In digging, the roots should be cut at a point that will leave the major portion of the root system 
in the soil. 
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