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light, sandy loam soils. It will pay to prepare the land for 
peanuts in a most thorough manner, and much of the diffi- 
culty in keeping the crop clean will be avoided by harrowing 
or disking the land two or three times before planting. The 
Spanish variety may be grown on much heavier land than 
the Virginia Bunch or Runner. 
CROP ROTATION IN PEANUT CULTURE. 
Peanuts should not be grown exclusively on any farm, but 
in rotation with other crops. Peanuts are adapted to grow- 
ing in a system with corn, cowpeas, oats, cotton, and Irish 
potatoes, the cropping arrangement being made to conform 
to local requirements. The crop of peanuts should invariably 
follow some crop that has been kept cultivated and reason- 5 
ably clean, as this decreases the labor required to keep the 6 
weeds under control. 
When fitting land for peanuts it should be plowed about 7 
the same depth as for corn, broadcast plowing being preferable 
to bedding. If the land has been in corn the previous season 
it should be plowed in ample time to allow the materials that 
are turned under to thoroughly decay before planting time. 8 
Some growers prefer to bed the land and then drag down 
almost level before planting, but on the whole it is better to 
keep the surface smooth and then work the soil toward the 
rows in cultivating. 
FERTILIZERS REQUIRED BY PEANUTS. 
Commercial fertilizers, if any are used, should be applied 
about the time the land is given its last harrowing before 9 
planting. A crop of 60 bushels of peanuts will require about 
85 pounds of nitrogen, 15 pounds of phosphoric acid, 32 
pounds of potash, and 48 pounds of lime. It would be diffi- 
cult to secure a fertilizer that would supply these elements in 
the above proportions; in fact, it would not be profitable to 
return all of these elements, especially the nitrogen, to the 
soil by means of commercial fertilizers. A fertilizer containing 
about 2 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid, and 8 10 
per cent potash is recommended for peanuts, and this may 
profitably be applied at the rate of 200 to 400 pounds to the 
acre. This will add the necessary phosphoric acid and potash 
to grow a crop, but only a small part of the nitrogen; the 
remaining nitrogen can be secured more cheaply through 11 
the agency of cowpeas, crimson clover, and the peanuts 
themselves if they are properly handled. 12 
