Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — The Peanut Crop of 1882. [ARTICLE]

The Peanut Crop of 1882.

William E. Worth, a communion merchant at 388 Greenwich street, has just returned from a trip through Virginia and North Carolina, where he went to inspect the peanut crop of 1882. He reports that in both states the area planted considerably exoeeds that of former years. In August the crop looked so well that the farmers expected an unusually large yield, but just before the time for digging a season of very wet weather rotted the stems of the most thoroughly matured nuts. This caused a great lot*;. The crop promises, however, to be as large and of as good quality as the average crop. The yield averages about forty bushels to the acre. In Virginia the crop will be 1,500,000 bushels. Because the yield falls below the expectations of August the farmers are crying short crop«. On account of the scarcity of labor a large part of the crop is not packed off and this partly accounts for the falling off of receipts in the market Another cause of the recent advance in price and the good financial condition of the farmers have tempted them to hold their crops for higher prices. In Tennessee the crop is from 850,000 to 400,000 bushels, of the very best quality, and in California .the yield ia said to be good. The now ranges from $1.75 a bushel for the best grade tp $1.20 for the poorer grade. Last yaMb the price was higher on account, of the almost total failure of the crop. In 1880, a good year the beet peanuts were only SL2S a bushel.