THE PEANUT PLANT.

ITS CULTIVATION AND USES.

BY

B. W. JONES,

OF VIRGINIA.

ILLUSTRATED.

NEW YORK:
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
1902

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by the
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PREFACE.

This little work has been prepared mainly for those who have nopractical acquaintance with the cultivation of the Peanut. Itsdirections, therefore, are intended for the beginner, and are such aswill enable any intelligent person who has followed farming, to raisegood crops of Peanuts, although he may have never before seen thegrowing plant.

The writer has confined himself to a recital of the more importantdetails, leaving the minor points to be discovered by the farmerhimself. If the reader should think these pages devoid of vivacity, lethim remember that we have treated of an every-day subject in anevery-day style. The interest in the theme will increase when thebeginner has pocketed the returns from his first year's crop. Untilthen, we leave him to plod his way through the details, trusting thatthe great Giver of the harvest will bless his labors, and amply rewardhis toils in this new field.

B. W. J.

Warren Place, Surry County, Va., 1885.

CONTENTS.