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. Peanuts a Profitable Crop. It has been customary to think of the humble goober as of little importance. It may be necessary to revise our ideas. The Blocker-Miller comDany. of Honey Grove, Tex., call attention to what the peanut is doing in their part of the Lone Star State in this circular: p February 22, 1916. Recently we sent out a circular letter regarding the peanut industry. We have received numerous replies, ;, some asking for information, others rather disposed to ridicule the idea pk * Of farmers planting peanuts, other than in a small way for a limited demand. We are enclosing a clipping V from today's Dallas New6, which ex- 1 i'"} plains in a way what is being done 1 in a country not so well adapted for ; cotton as this section, but better suited for peanuts. ' In this section the acreage will be more than doubled from last year, vi and this at the expense of cotton. There is no doubt but the cotton 1 , acreage will be decreased in this sec- ' tion this season, land formerly plant- ' ed in cotton going into corn, oats and J pg- peanuts. * The yield in peanuts here the past 1 season, ran as low as 25 bushels per 1 * ' -- u..HkA]e A acre and as mgn as ?w uubucio. number of farmers not knowing how to cultivate them, made the small i yields. Peanut hay is worth double 1 that of prairie hay. Besides, grow- * ing peanuts benefits the land which { ; has been worn out in cotton. Watch out for a big acreage of peanuts. It ( Hi is sure to come. ] BLOCKER-MILLER CO. 1 The article in the Dallas News is ] made up largely of an interview with 1 R. E. Coleman, manager of the Co- ( manche Cotton Oil company, of Co- { manche, Tex. ^ Until last year the ( T Comanche mill, with others of its ( type in Texas, had been a cotton seed plant exclusively. Few, if any, ] mill men had given thought to sub- ( stituting peanuts for cotton seed. But after the boll weevil blasted the sandy land belt of middle west J Texas the supply of raw material be- ; gan to decrease. The farmers were ] planting less cotton and more pea orxA /?/vttsvn that, was Dtant- ' ft y J1UVO f OrliU bUV www** V ?d in 1914 in this belt yielded most ! m eagerly, whereas peanuts were com- 5 ing into every town out here, wagon ] [/ load after wagon load. ! *'" Here was a mill constructed to ex- , tract oil from a certain raw product -?cotton seed; that particular raw product was not available, but the ) farmers had abundant quantities of another raw material from which oil i and cake and meal may also be made. As Mr. Coleman says, it was a plain case of-necessity. , If "Get busy, boys," he ordered, i "We'll make the necessary changes in t machinery to turn out peanut oil." And so, after a few preliminary } experiments, the Comanche mill began crushing peanuts in June of last ] year. During the 1915 season the ; mill crushed between 900 and 1,000 J tons of peanuts, handling something ] more than 66,000 bushels. Over 60,- ! 0Q0 gallons of peanut oil was pro- 1 duced and shipped out in tank cars ^ and about 500 tons of peanut cake and peanut meal was made. J "Tpie oil yield per ton from pea- ' nuts was 10 to 12 per cent, more than from cotton seed," said Mr. j Coleman. "This is crude oil, of course. There* is not more than 4 * to 6 per cent, refining loss. This oil { is of a very-fine quality. It keeps Company with the very best grades of oil produced anywhere, and outclass? /"? ?! T /Iftn't holiavA RES?- "Sv Cb UVHU11 DCCU VH. x uuu V v the two interests, cotton seed oil and | Bfej peanut oil, will conflict at all. "I do not believe there is the M v slightest chance of overproduction of jrpr"' peanuts; certainly not within the imra.j'f. mediate future. The United States |||? . has been importing large quantities of peanut oil. We have just scratched the surface of the peanut possibilities in Texas. Our future is to v . produce here at home the peanut oil that-we have been importing. From this time on, ih my judgment, we are going to be a dominating factor in the peanut oil production of the jjk? world/' Peanuts were selling in Comanche W,. at 55c a bushel when the local mill began to crush. Mr. Coleman says he entered the market at 60c and that he estimates his average price J/ paid to farmers during the season > at 65c. The quotations as 'this is written run from 80c to 85c. If a farmer can average eighty ' 'v K bushels of peanuts to the acre and get 60 cents per bushel for his crop, the money return to him is larger than from cotton. "The process of making peanut oil is mighty near the same as in mak ing cotton seed oil," explained Mr. Coleman. "The separating machinery is different; some of the machinery used in cotton seed oil production lies idle when peanuts are used, and some new machinery is required. The changes, however, are not radical." The peanuts are crushed, hull and all, and the hull forms a part of the meal and the cake. Experiments are under way in feeding the peanut cake iSjF.r-V ! Hm*. I ,KA,L : .. i Reform in Foreclosure Proceedings. | Referring again to what we have already said in connection with the desirability of reform in the law relating to the foreclosure of mortgages, we would have the State treat borrowers on farm lands just as it does defaulters in taxes. The State does not try to take unfair advantage of people who default in the payment of taxes on real estate, and why should it allow a cred itor to take unfair advantage of the poor debtor who is unable to take care of a mortgage when it is due? The law with reference to defaulting taxpayers is eminently fair. It provides that the real estate involved, or so much of it as may be neces- , sary, shall be put up by the sheriff ' and sold to the highest bidder, who is required to comply with his bid at ' once; but the sheriff cannot make title until six months afterward. If in the meantime, the owner of the distressed property, or any heir thereto, or mortgage holder thereon, comes forward with a request to redeem the title, he may do so upon payment of the amount paid by the successful bidder, and 8 per cent, on the successful bidder's money during the time the same has been in the bands of the sheritf. Under this arrangement, no man is deprived of his property without a fair show, and there is no good reason why the law should not take jaual care of the mortgage debtor. Let the law be changed or reformed so as to provide (as is .done in North Carolina) that if within 30 lays after a piece of mortgaged property has been knocked down to . the highest bidder, some one el^e comes forward with a bona fide, properly guaranteed advance of 10 per cent, on the previous bid, the property may go on the block again. So far as we know, there has been no disposition in South Carolina to ] compare our procedure in connection ' with the foreclosure of mortgages J with the methods of the pawnbroker; i but as a matter of fact there is no * Improvement on the methods of the I pawnbroker. J This whole matter requires attention, and we hope it will be taken up and ventilated by people who will be able to secure for it the consideration its importance deserves.?Yorkville Enquirer. ^ Veils. They're plain. They're ornate. < 1 They're worn tight. They're worn flowing. They cover the entire hat. ( Or they are placed 'round the , edge. ( Filet and honeycomb meshes show 1 th read-run designs. ^ w m Patterns are for the most part of i sprawling character. Black, gray, tete de negre and brown are the chosen colors. ind meal to cattle, and, as far as they have gone, it is indicated this feed Is satisfactory. And in thinking of peaaut meal and cake as stock feed, it " is well to remember that the farmer who grew the crop made peanut hay, Et feed of thoroughly demonstrated excellence. The peanut oil is used principally In the manufacture of butterine at this time; it is also used as salad oil, cooking oil, substitute for olive oil, in canning sardines, etc., and the . lower grades of peanut oil are used . for making soap. In addition to the oil mill business, there are now between fifteen and twenty peanut shelling plants in Texas. They hull the peanuts and ship them to manufacturers who turn out candy, peanut butter and salted peanuts. The food value of peanuts is about 25 per cent, hulls and 75 per cent, meats. Peanut cake, which is the peanut kernel after most of the oil has been extracted, and peanut meal, which is the ground cake, make, according to John C. Burns, professor of animal husbandry at the A. & M. college, "a very" concentrated feed, especially rich in crude protein and fully equal to high-grade cotton seed meal in feeding value. In fact, the quantities of food nutrients in the two feeds are practically the same." In this statement, however, Prof. Burns had reference to peanut cake and meal made from pure nuts, and not including the peanut hulls, which have no feed value. Comanche county has diversified generally during the last year, in addition to raising peanuts and hogs. The poultry business, dairying, fruit and potatoes have developed with particular rapidity. "This will never be an all-cotton country again," said D. F. Eaton, county demonstration agent. "Formerly we depended on all cotton. The boll weevil ruined cotton/our only crop, and it hit us hard. 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