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    The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses
    The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses
    The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses
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    The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses

    By B. W. Jones

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    This work provides invaluable information on general peanut growing. It is written primarily for those who have no practical understanding of peanut cultivation. Therefore, its directions are intended for beginners and will help anyone who wants to raise good crops of Peanuts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4064066175719
    The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses

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      The Peanut Plant - B. W. Jones

      B. W. Jones

      The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066175719

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      THE PEANUT PLANT;

      ITS CULTIVATION AND USES.

      CHAPTER I.

      DESCRIPTION.

      CHAPTER II.

      PLANTING.

      CHAPTER III.

      CULTIVATION.

      CHAPTER IV.

      HARVESTING.

      CHAPTER V.

      MARKETING.

      CHAPTER VI.

      USES.

      APPENDIX A.

      STATISTICS.

      APPENDIX B.

      COSTS.

      APPENDIX C.

      THE PEANUT GARDEN OF AMERICA.

      New Methods in Education

      By J. Liberty Tadd

      A Wealth of Illustration—478 Pictures and 44 Full-Page Plates

      Descriptive Catalog of—RURAL BOOKS

      Orange Judd Company

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      This little work has been prepared mainly for those who have no practical acquaintance with the cultivation of the Peanut. Its directions, therefore, are intended for the beginner, and are such as will enable any intelligent person who has followed farming, to raise good crops of Peanuts, although he may have never before seen the growing plant.

      The writer has confined himself to a recital of the more important details, leaving the minor points to be discovered by the farmer himself. If the reader should think these pages devoid of vivacity, let him remember that we have treated of an every-day subject in an every-day style. The interest in the theme will increase when the beginner has pocketed the returns from his first year's crop. Until then, we leave him to plod his way through the details, trusting that the great Giver of the harvest will bless his labors, and amply reward his toils in this new field.

      B. W. J.

      Warren Place, Surry County, Va., 1885.

      THE PEANUT PLANT;

      ITS CULTIVATION AND USES.

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I.

      DESCRIPTION.

      Table of Contents

      Origin.—The native country of the Peanut (Arachis hypogæa) is not definitely ascertained. Like many other extensively cultivated plants, it has not been found in a truly wild state. Some botanists regard the plant as a native of Africa, and brought to the New World soon after its discovery. Sloane, in his history of Jamaica, states that peanuts formed a part of the provisions taken by the slave ships for the support of the negroes on the voyage, and leaves it to be inferred that the plant was introduced in this manner. De Candolle, in Géographie Botanique Raisonnée, and his latter work on L'Origine des Plantes Cultivées, strongly inclines to the American origin of the Peanut. The absence of any mention of the plant by early Egyptian and Arabic writers, and the fact that there is no name for it in Sanscrit and Bengalese, are regarded as telling against its Oriental origin. Moreover, there are six other species of Arachis, natives of Brazil, and Bentham and Hooker, in their Genera Plantarum, ask if the plant so generally grown in warm countries may not be a cultivated form of a Brazilian species.

      If, as seems probable, the Peanut is really a native of America, then this Continent has contributed to the agricultural world five plants that have exerted, and will continue to exert, an immense influence on the industries and commerce of the world. These are: the Potato, Cotton, Tobacco, Indian Corn, and the Peanut. Of these five, the Peanut, the last to come into general and prominent notice, is destined to rival some of the others in importance.

      Whatever may have been its origin, the Peanut plant has gradually made its way over an extended area of the warmer parts of both the Old and New World, and in North America has gained a permanent foot-hold in the soil of the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Nor has it yet reached its ultimate limits, for cultivation and acclimation will inure it to a sterner climate, until it becomes an important crop in latitudes considerably further north than Virginia. This is indicated by its rapid spread within the past few years. Remaining long in comparative obscurity, it was not until a recent period that the Peanut gained prominence as an agricultural and commercial staple, but since it fairly started, its progress has been rapid and sure.

      Natural History.—There are some peculiarities about the Peanut plant that make it interesting to the naturalist. Its habit of clinging close to the soil, the closing together of the leaves at sunset, or on the approach of a storm, the beautiful appearance of a field of it when full grown, and the remarkable wart-like excrescences found upon the roots, are some of its more notable characteristics. Its striking preference for a calcareous soil is another of its peculiarities, the Peanut producing more and better crops on this kind of soil than on any other.

      The Peanut belongs to the Natural Order Leguminosæ, or pod-bearing plants, and this particular member of it is as unlike all the rest with which we are acquainted, as can well be conceived. No other grows so recumbent upon the soil, and none but this produces seed under ground.

      The botanical name of the Peanut is Arachis hypogæa. The origin of the generic name arachis is somewhat obscure; it is said to come from a, privative, and rachis, a branch, meaning having no branches, which is not true of this plant. The specific appellation, hypogæa, or under-ground, describes the manner in which the pods grow. The following is a partially technical description of the plant:

      Root annual, branched, but not fibrous, yellowish, bitter, and warty; Stem procumbent, spreading, much-branched, somewhat hairy towards the extremities; Leaves compound, leaflets obovate, mucronate, margin entire, ciliate when young, smooth and almost leathery with age, leaves closing at night and in rainy weather; Flowers papilionaceous, yellow, borne upon the end of an axillary peduncle. After flowering, the forming-pod is, by the elongation of its stalk, pushed into the soil, beneath which it grows and ripens; Legume, or pod indehiscent, woody and veiny, one to four-seeded; Seed, with a reddish coat, the embryo with two large, fleshy cotyledons, and a very short, nearly straight, radicle. Figure 1 represents a portion of the Peanut plant.

      Figure 1

      Fig. 1.—

      PORTION OF THE PEANUT PLANT

      , showing how the minute pods from above-ground flowers are forced into the soil to grow and ripen.

      Varieties.—While no botanical varieties of Arachis hypogæa have been described, its long cultivation in different countries in unlike soils and climates, has produced several cultural varieties. Taking the Virginia Peanut as the typical form, there may be

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