Show products of the peanut in europe this nut has various uses which are only beginning to be recognized in this country the first recognition being that of a virginia company which handles the peanut products principal products are peanut oil for cooking and table purposes and confect tio ners use peanut for confectionery ti onery peanut grits for soap etc pea nut flour for baking and peanut bran for stock feed the oil is highly valued in europe and it is stated that fully worth of peanuts are brought into marseilles annually for the manufacture of oil which is used m toilet soaps and for other purposes the peanut flour is quite extensively used in europe and is made into bread cakes biscuit etc it is one of the favorite articles of food in the hospitals of germany the estimated product of five tons of peanuts amounts to gallons of refined oil at 1 per gallon gallons of crude oil at 50 cents pounds of flour and meal at 2 cents per pound pounds of stock feed at CO cents per hundred pounds making in all in the mechanical handling of peanuts they are first crushed and cut between suitable rollers then the cut and crushed mass is submitted to a hot bath for separating the shells and kernels and finally the kernels are dried to separate them from their skins manufacturers decord |