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Show The peanut crop of the country! is ono of great importance. It is principally coufined to Tennesee, Virginia and North Carolina, in which states during the past year ending Sept. 30th, 1S74, the crop amounted to 400,000 bushels. There was imported tromAfri;i during tho year 125,000 bushels, making an aggregate of 5S5.000 bushels of peanuts pea-nuts consumed in the United Slates. It will pay to import African nuts when the price of the American article rates at eight cents a pound or over. |