Show PEANUT CROP ALWAYS SURE j Coarse Sandy Soil Most Conducive to Its GrowthMatures Only In Warm Climates The peanut Is a food found In stores and peanut shops In most parts of the 1 civilized world Many of tho clerks I and shop men who handle peanuts every day know very little of how I 4 they are grown The peanut thoroughly matures only In warm climates where the growing season lasts from eight to ten months In the year The class of soil most conducive to their growth is a coarse sandy loam The selection of the seed Is much the same as that of other vegetables to reap the best harvest the choicest 11 seed must be planted The ground is to1 be laid off in shallow shal-low furrows about two feet apart Into these furrows the peanuts after having hav-ing been broken so as to have one nut only in a piece of a shell are dropped from 18 Inches to two feet apart When the ground has all been planted it is leveled smoothly again covering the seed with from two to four inches of soil After about two weeks from the time of planting two little leaves somewhat the shape and much like abeam a-beam leaf appear abovo the ground These two leaves after several months will have developed Into many small IF branches which spread out on the ground for a foot or more In all directions di-rections From these branches small tender shoots grow down into the ground On the end of these shoots grow the peanuts not on tho main roots as might bo supposed rime peanut needs but very little cultivation cul-tivation It will mature with less water wa-ter than almost any other vegetable All ono has to do Is to keep the weeds from among the vines and kill all rats and gophers that appear on the land Harvesting Is perhaps the most la borious part about the raising of peanuts pea-nuts The vines must bo pulled up by hand If the ground Is In proper condition most of the peanuts will hang to tho vine when pulled up rime nuts are then picked from tho J vines and laid In tho sun When thoroughly r I thor-oughly dry they are sacked and sent to be roasted ready for eating Tho crop is always suro and brings good returns because of the great demand it de-mand In nil markets of tho world f |