Marketing Peanuts And Peanut Products

The peanut, for over 20 years a leading crop in the Southern States, reaches the consumer in many widely different forms. Once grown exclusively for sale roasted in the shell and for feeding to hogs, peanuts are now more widely known in the salted form, and even larger quantities are marketed each year as peanut butter and peanut candy. In some years a considerable volume of peanuts has been crushed and the crude oil shipped to manufacturers of oleomargarine, compounds and vegetable shortenings, and salad oil. The course taken by the peanut in its journey from farm to the consumer, then, is necessarily a varied one, with many bypaths.

Excerpt from Marketing Peanuts and Peanut Products Figure 7. - Spanish-type farmers' stock peanuts, packed in irregular-size bags, trucked to a storage house in Texas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The peanut, for over 20 years a leading crop in the Southern States, reaches the consumer in many widely different forms. Once grown exclusively for sale roasted in the shell and for feeding to hogs, peanuts are now more widely known in the salted form, and even larger quantities are marketed each year as peanut butter and peanut candy. In some years a considerable volume of peanuts has been crushed and the crude oil shipped to manufacturers of oleomargarine, compounds and vegetable shortenings, and salad oil. The course taken by the peanut in its journey from farm to the consumer, then, is necessarily a varied one, with many bypaths.