The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 01, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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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
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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
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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. But it
taught us the lesson. We have a variety
of crops now, and always will,
henceforth. Then if one crop fails
we have others to fall back upon."?
Home and Farm.
New line of Waterman's Ideal
Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store.
Too Many Legs. 1
A young officer at the front wrote
home to his father:
"Dear Father: Kindly send me
50 pounds at once. Lost another leg
in a stiff engagement, and am in hospital
without means."
The answer was as follows:
"My Dear Son: As this is the
fourth leg you have lost (according
to your letters), you ought to be accustomed
to it by this time. Try to
hobble along on any others you may
have left."
Old Age and Death
pf ai4 j i sum*
pull (.theLIYGI
Tour liver is the Sanitary Department
ol your body. When it does
wrong yotzr whole system becomes
poisoned and your vita&tyis weakened.
The best remedy is
Dr. Thacher's Liver
and Blood Syrup
purely vegetable compound, laxative
and tonic in effect. It cleans out your
body, and puts energy into your mind and
muscles. We recommend this remedy because
we know from many years'experience
that it is effective.
Keep a bottle in your home. 60c andfl
at your dealer's.
THACHER MEDICINE CO.,
CHATTANOOGA, TEHX.
E. H. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
BAMBERGi S. O.
General Practice. Loans Negotiated.
Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
rhe Old Standsrd general strengthening tonic,
DROVE'S TASTELESS chUl TONIC, drives out
Ualaria,enriches the blood.and builds up the system.
true tonic. For adults and children. 50c.
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W.MAX WALKER
EHRHARDT, S. C.
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Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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General Tonic because it contains the
ivell known tonic properties of QUININB
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rat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 certs.
R. P. BELLINGER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office Over Bamberg Banking Co.
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I used a box of Doan's Kidney
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Price 50c,. at all dealers. Don't
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