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Show long knives which sink into the ground sufficiently to cut the lap root of the vine. The same process is gone through with on the other side of the vine. . The main root being thus severed sev-ered and the ground loosened, the vines are lifted into shocks like corn. They are cured bv allowing them to stand in the sun about ten days, when colored women and children are sent into the field to pick the nuts from tlio Vines. An average picker will pick about five bushels per day, for which be is paid at the rate of ten cents a bushel. "It is not known how peanuts first came into this countv. Both Africa and Asia claim the distinction of being be-ing the home of this vegetable. Its first record in the United States dates back to 1850. In 1861 the crop amminted to about 50,000 bushels, but it was the circus that really made the peanut a valuable article of commerce. com-merce. At the present time the crop amounts to about 11,000.000 bushels annually. an-nually. Virginia and North Carolina still maintain their lead, but Tennessee now raises about 800,000 bushels, though of an inferior quality. Of the ordinary variety about twenty-two pounds make a bushel." Milwaukee Sentinel. PEANUTS. "Fw people who buy a bag of peanuts pea-nuts on the street for 5 cents realize the extent of the peanut industry." said A. P. Bryan, of Norfolk, Va. ''It is a fact that the total sales of peanuts amount annually to between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000, and some salesmen, sell as high as 1,000,009 bushels each year. "The seeds of the peanut are planted like beans, and when the vines have come up and the nuts are ready for harvesting the farmer takes a cultivator cultiva-tor especially made for that purpose and starts down the long rows. On either side of this cultivator are two |