. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools . FiG. 86. — Virginia Bunch peanuts. tonseed oil mills are now beginning to crush some of the nuts for southern farmers. In many sections the chief use of peanuts is as a live-stock feed. Often seed are planted as a catch crop between the rows of corn at the last cultivation. The corn is husked from the standing stalks and cattle are turned into the field to forage for the leaves of corn and the peanut vines. Later hogs are turned into the fields to eat the peanuts. They will harvest them by rooting them from the ground. When peanuts are gr
. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools . FiG. 86. — Virginia Bunch peanuts. tonseed oil mills are now beginning to crush some of the nuts for southern farmers. In many sections the chief use of peanuts is as a live-stock feed. Often seed are planted as a catch crop between the rows of corn at the last cultivation. The corn is husked from the standing stalks and cattle are turned into the field to forage for the leaves of corn and the peanut vines. Later hogs are turned into the fields to eat the peanuts. They will harvest them by rooting them from the ground. When peanuts are grown for market, the vines are useful as forage. Their feeding value is about equal to that of clover hay.
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