Show WHY NOT RAISE PEANUTS One county in North Carolina is the great center from which most of the peanuts which the American people absorb is produced and a long description of how the business is carried on gives the idea that there might in southern Utah be built up lip a great peanut industry industry- The shelled peanuts are arc planted by a drill drin about twelve inches apart they are arc ploughed twice to keep down the grass thc they are arc dug by machinery and threshed in a peanut threshing threshing thresh thresh- ing machine and one man man can attend to thirty acres Before the war the planters raised a few acres for home use nse After the war when the question became all absorbing how to get a little mone money the thought struck s some me one that it might be good to plant peanuts peanuts pea pea- nuts for the northern and eastern market It was a great grent success and now vast tracts of land are arc given up to their cultivation and farms clear from 30 to 60 per acre from them That could be about quadrupled quad quad- quadrupled in Utah for the soil would produce twice as great a crop as the soil of North Carolina and the prices that could be obtained here bere would be quite J ite double those realized in North Carolina I The best soil is a light sandy loam not necessarily I ri rich h. h Indeed the they are produced in North Carolina i on what before the war was considered land Jand rhe They are eaten b by almost all animals Pigs grow fat upon them horses cows and rats like them One man who man who owns two factories says that raw peanuts eaten regularly will cure any an- case of indigestion I and the girls who work in the factories are u uncomfortably uncomfortably com healthy and so 50 rosy that they make the hollyhocks ashamed There ought to be per acres acres' from peanuts in southern Utah I |