The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses

Some of the more important uses of the Peanut and its plant are here given. In the course of time, as new discoveries are made, it is not improbable that the Peanut may subserve...

=Soil, and Mode of Preparation.=--A warm soil is required by the Peanut. A light, porous soil in which sand predominates, but not too sandy, warm and dry, and yet not too dry, b...

=When to begin Harvesting.=--We come now to the laborious and often difficult work of harvesting the peanut crop. We say difficult, for often rainy or other unpropitious weather...

It requires as much judgment to market a crop well, as it does to raise and harvest it, and often more. Unfortunately, the majority of planters are sadly deficient in that knowl...

=First Plowing and Weeding.=--Usually, the cultivation of the Peanut begins by first siding the rows with a turn-plow, small mould-board attached, by which the soil is thrown fr...

=Origin.=--The native country of the Peanut (_Arachis hypogaea_) is not definitely ascertained. Like many other extensively cultivated plants, it has not been found in a truly w...

soil deeply broken in the outset, the Peanut will withstand successfully any period of dry weather ever likely to occur in this country. It has been noticed that the crops that...