Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1897 — European Peanuts. [ARTICLE]

European Peanuts.

Peanuts grow In large quantities on the northwest coast of Africa, but are known there as ground nuts. They are dug up by the natives and bartered with the European traders for merI'hauAW, *tv., ftt mmiy planaa on the Gambia River, and afterward shipped in steamer loads to European ports, principally to Marseilles. The nuts are uot roasted for retail sale, as lu this country, hut crushed and a flue oil extracted, which is valuable commercially.