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Show Big Peanuts This Year. Peanut lovers hnvo noticed thnttho nuts nro genornily very much largor this year than usual, a fact which may bo verified by tho most casual glanco nt any stnnd whoro they nro sold. Thoy nro suld'to bo much hotter hot-ter In flavor, though thero ure somo connoisseurs who declaro that the small nut ia tho sweetest. "Tho Increased size of ths peanut now In tho market," says a wholesalo dealer, "1b duo moro to improved methods meth-ods of cultivation. I think, than to tho accident of favorablo weather conditions, condi-tions, though tho current crop Is unusually un-usually largo In quantity. 'As to tho relntivo merits of tho largo and small nut, I cannot speak, being a seller, nnd not an eater of them. I do know, however, that with theBo big, fnt-looklng fellows on sale thero Is practically no mnrket for tho llttlo ones." Philadelphia Record. |