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Show THE PEANUT. It Could Be Unified with I'roflt In Our CoiiDly. ! The peanut can be grown in al- most every section of the irrigated West. It is a most prolific and excellent nut, and should be grown in every garden. For late planting, plant-ing, w'hieh may be till July 15, the Spanish is the most preferable. It is a small, white nut, the vine growing upright like potatoes. A light sandy soil is the best place to plant, and but little irrigation is required. The nuts are taken from the shell and planted in rows three feet apart and eighteen inches in the row, two nuts to a hill. But little cultivation is required about the same as corn or potatoes pota-toes and the irrrigation is similar to that of sweet potatoes. No blossoms have to be covered in order to make a good crop of nuts. In September or October, after the tops indicate maturity, the vines are pulled up. Nuts banging to small, tough roots readily come up with the vines. They are- left lying up on the ground for a few days to dry, when the nuts can be easily pulled ofi by hand. The Spanish variety ia considered a fine nut fur eating raw, or can he roasted and eaten as others. In ordinary soil the nuts produce J from forty to seventy bushels per acre. The larger varieties sometimes some-times yield one hundred bushels pot acre but should be planted earlier than the Spanish, says an exchange. |