Curing Peanuts 
In my first attempt, at farming I have 
had an exceptional amount of luck in rais¬ 
ing all kinds of good things, such as sweet 
potatoes, corn, watermelons, etc., also a 
crop of peanuts, probably 2 bn. of im¬ 
mensely large and handsome nuts. IIow 
can 1 bleach same, as no one in this vi¬ 
cinity knows? I would like to have them 
look like the kind yon buy. A. w, n. 
You have probably taken up your pea¬ 
nuts too green. I'eanut growers do not 
lift them till near frost time, and that 
here is usually from October 20 to No¬ 
vember 10. Stakes are set in the field 
about ti ft. tall. The nuts are taken up 
and shocked around the stakes, nuts next 
the stake, and made into a little stack, 
with all the nuts completely covered, and 
the tops arranged to shed rain. Then 
later, after the stacks are well matured, 
they are pulled down and the nuts gath- 
thered. They are packed in 4-bu. sacks 
and sold, and the factories polish them 
by machinery. Nuts that are exposed 
to (he light while curing will always be 
dark iu color, so that in the stacking 
every nut must be covered by the tops. 
The cured tops are good hay. 
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I planted two separate fields of sweet 
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Asparagus Questions 
We have an asparagus bed about 10x80 
ft. My employer tells me that all the 
female plants (the ones with berries 011") 
should he cut down, or even dug out. and 
replaced by male plants, as they are in¬ 
jurious to the bed and do not produce as 
much as the other kind. The greater 
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The male, or pollen bearing plants, are 
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Whether there is enough difference to 
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