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sons may be made from time to time and the beal saved for 
further selection. The ideal plant should not only produce 
a large number of pods, hut the pods should be well filled, uni- 
form in size, smool li, and of bright color. The peas t heniselves 
should be plump, bright, uniform in shape, and well filled. 
If a grower does not have a good strain of seed, he should 
purchase from someone who has given the matter attention; 
then in future years give especial care to the matter of saving 
good seed. 
PLANTING SHELLED OR TJNSHELLED PEANUTS. 
The seed of the large varieties of peanuts are practically all 
shelled by hand for planting. In the case of the Spanish the 
peas practically fill the pods, making it difficult to remove the 
shell by hand. The machines used in the factories for shelling 
peanuts break the peas more or less, and even when the peas 
are not broken the germination is often injured by the rough 
usage in shelling. For this reason it has been found safer to 17 
plant the Spanish peas in the shell almost exclusively. The 
shelled peas will sprout a little more quickly than those in the 
shells, but a few days' time will not make any material differ- 
ence. If desirable, the pods may be soaked in water for a 
few hours before planting, in order to hasten germination. 
PLANTING MACHINERY. 
The machines now upon the market for planting peanuts are 
constructed somewhat upon the plan of the one-horse cotton 18 
planter. These machines are well adapted to planting the 
shelled peas, both of the large and small varieties, and, if the 
peas are clean and free from stems, are quite satisfactory 
for planting the Spanish nuts in the shells. 
In using the one-horse machines the land is first laid off in 19 
rows one way by means of a marker similar to that used in 
laying off corn rows. The planter is then run in this mark and 
it drops, covers, and rolls at one operation. The different 
distances of planting are regulated by changing a gear wheel 
on the machine. 
PLANTING BY HAND. 
For hand dropping, furrows or marks are made with a sweep 
stock or single shovel just a little in advance of the droppers 
to prevent drying out. The seed peanuts are hauled to the 20 
field in bags, and close-woven baskets of about half-bushel size 
have been found desirable to drop from. The droppers simply 
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