CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| [CHAPTER I.—Description.] | |
| Origin.—Natural History.—Varieties.—Possible Range.—Analysis. | 5 |
| [CHAPTER II.—Planting.] | |
| Soil, and Mode of Preparation.—Seed.—Time and Mode of Planting.—Fertilizers.—Replanting.—Moles, and Other Depredators.—Critical Period. | 14 |
| [CHAPTER III.—Cultivation.] | |
| First Plowing and Weeding.—Subsequent Workings.—Implements.— When Cultivation should Cease.—Insect Enemies.—Effects of Cold. —Effects of Drouth.—Appearance at this Period. | 27 |
| [CHAPTER IV.—Harvesting.] | |
| When to begin Harvesting.—Mode of Harvesting.—Why cured in the Field.—Depredators.—Detached Peanuts.—Saving Seed Peanuts. | 37 |
| [CHAPTER V.—Marketing.] | |
| Picking the Peanuts.—Price paid Pickers.—Cleaning and Bagging.—Peanut "Factories."—The best Markets.—Picking Machines. | 46 |
| [CHAPTER VI.—Uses.] | |
| Peanut Oil.—Roasted Peanuts.—Peanut Candy.—Peanut Coffee.—Peanut Chocolate.—Peanut Bread.—Peanut Soap.—Peanuts as a Food for Stock.—Peanut Hay. | 55 |
| APPENDIX. | |
| [A. Statistics.] | 65 |
| [B. Costs.] | 67 |
| [C. The Peanut Garden of America.] | 67 |