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Show Big Peanuts This Year. Peanut lovers havo noticed thnt tho nuts aro genorully very much largor this year than usual, a fact which may bo verified by tho most casual glanco at any stand whoro they are sold. Thoy are said to bo much bet ter In flavor, though thoro aro sotno connoisseurs who dcclaro that tho small nut Is thu sweetest. "Tho Increased slzo of tho peanut now In tho market," says a wholesale dealer, "Is duo moro to Improved methods meth-ods of cultivation, I think, than to tho accident of favorable weather conditions, condi-tions, though thu current crop Is unusually un-usually large In quantity. "As to tho rulutivo morlts of the largo and small uut, I cannot speak, being n seller, and not an cater of thom. I do know, howovor, that with those big, rat-looking follows on sale thero Is practically no market for tho llttlo onos," Philadelphia It coord. |