Show I Origin of Peanut Still Mystery Like many other extensively cultivated I plants the peanut has not been found in III a truly wild state and hence it is difficult to fix upon Its habitat 01 or the place which it would call home I So Ro widely has it been cultivated In I Eastern Kastern countries that some botanIsts botanists botanists botan botan- have attempted to trace Its spread from China to Japan thence through the East India islands to India and thence to Africa where in the seventeenth seventeenth seventeenth seven seven- century It was so extensively cultivated and had become such an Important article of native food that the slave dealers loaded their vessels with It using it as food for their cargoes cargoes cargoes car car- goes of captives Some Important economic botanists believe that the weight of authority is In favor of ac accepting accepting ac- ac the peanut as a a. native of Bra- Bra 71 zil and thus adding the peanut to the four other plants of commercial Importance which America has contributed contributed con eon to the agricultural world world- cotton totton corn tobacco and the po- po tab tato Before the Civil war the United States Imported peanuts m West Vest Africa and toda today not notwithstanding withstanding the remarkable increase In the production production production pro pro- of American peanuts they are Imported from Spain Africa China and Japan Coal prices slated slate to go EO up says saysa a It dispatch If It it Isn't the tue prices coal that are stated Its It's the V Norfolk Virginian |