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USES OF PEANUTS. 
USES OF PEANUTS AS FOOD. 
Peanuts now find usee in a great many way- aside from 
being roasted and sold in packages. There is a great and 
ever-increasing demand for peanuts to be used in the prep- 
aration of Baited peanut-, peanut butter, peanut candies, 
peanut Hour, and vegetarian meat substitutes. Owing to 
the high nutritive properties of peanuts they are rapidly 
assuming an important place as a standard human food, rank- 
ing in this respect with other legumes which they resemble in 
composition. The consumption of peanut butter alone 
amounts t<> hundreds of carloads of the product annually. 
PRODUCTION OF OIL FROM PEANUTS. 
In France and Germany millions of bushels of peanut 
annually crushed for oil. the oil being used for cooking, for 
salad making, and in the place of butter, while the cake 
resulting from the manufacture of the oil is used as stock 
food. In this country we have many oil mills that are either 
idle or running on short time on account of the shortage of 
cottonseed, and it is only a matter of a little time until our 
production of peanuts will enable us to build up a great in- 
dustry in the manufacture of peanut oil. In general the oil 
from the peanut has the same culinary and table uses as olive 
oil, cottonseed oil, and some other vegetable oils, and, like 
them, is considered a wholesome and valuable food product. 
Thirty pounds, or a bushel, of Spanish peanut s will yield 
1 gallon of oil and about 20 pounds of cake. A gallon of 
this oil is worth 75 cents wholesale and the cake is worth 1J 
cents a pound, or 2.5 cents, making a total of SI from a bushel, 
from which the working cost must be taken. Assuming that 
an average of 40 bushels of Spanish peanuts can be grown to 
an acre, we have a very promising proposition in the manu- 
facture of peanut oil, especially when the peanut hay will 
almost pay the cost of growing the crop. 
VALUE OF PEANUTS AS STOCK FOOD. 
48 All of the inferior or refuse peanuts can be used to advantage 
on the farm for feeding to hogs and also to the general farm 
animals. There is not a pound of the entire peanut crop, 
li> including roots, stems, leaves, and peas, but that has some 
value, and not an ounce should be wasted. The tops when 
