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Show ' W Eat Lot. of reanuts. The average yield of peanuts appears to be about fifty bushels to the acre, although al-though it sometimes goes as high as seventv-five and falls as low as twenty-five. twenty-five. The value to the producer of the crop of 1839-90 is fstimated at not less than $3,000,000. A rfmple calculation will show that the daily consumption consump-tion of peanuts ir tho United States is about 200,003 pounds, or ten carloads, representing an ejpcnJiture by the consumer con-sumer of from tCi),000to 430,000 daily. St. Louis Post-I'ispaVh. |