Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — A Peanut Plantation in Blossom. [ARTICLE]

A Peanut Plantation in Blossom.

It is a pretty sight to see a peanut plantation when the vines are in bloasom. The blossoms are a bright yellow and the vines are a vivid greeu. As soon as tli • blossom appears a fine branch forms on the vine and shoot* down into the ground. The pens, aa the nuts are called on the plantation, form on the shoot beneath the ground, like potatoes. When the crop is gathered In October the viue is ploughed up, atiTl In twenty days the nuts am ready to he pulled off, placed in hag* and tak>n to the factories. There they are cleansed of dirt, assorted, polished In revolving cylinders auil put Into Imgs for the market. The fixed bayonet was not used its the charges, either nt San Juan or KI Coney. It Is claimed It should b« made smaller and sharper.