A Life of Peanuts
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By: Rachel Purvis
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A Life of Peanuts takes a look at the role peanuts have played in the South–from their arrival in the early 1800's to their existence in the South today. Their roots, no pun intended, might have begun in South Carolina but today those roots have made their way all the way to the Alabama-Florida line. This book will investigate peanuts not only from a historical perspective but also will delve into the lives of a peanut grower and a peanut seller whose lives are impacted by peanuts everyday.
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By: Rachel Purvis
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A Life of Peanuts takes a look at the role peanuts have played in the South- from their arrival in the early 1800's to their existence in the South today. Their roots, no pun intended, might have begun in South Carolina but today those roots have made their way all the way to the Alabama-Florida line. This book will investigate peanuts not only from a historical perspective but also will delve into the lives of a peanut grow-er and a peanut seller whose lives are impacted by peanuts everyday.
A LIFE OFPEANUTS!
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1ORIGINS• A NEW IDEA
• THE BOLL WEEVIL
• GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
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A LIFE OF
PEANUT PEOPLE• BUCK THE PEANUT MAN
• JOHN RAY
IMPACT• CONTRIBUTIONS
• PEANUT USES TODAY
• ECONOMICAL IMPACT
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howitallbegan
originate inSouth
America
1800's move to South Carolina
consumption begins at Civil War
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It is thought that peanuts originated in South America, probably in Brazil or Peru. They were grown as far North as Mexico by the time the Spanish began their exploration of the New World. When the explorers returned to Spain, they brought peanuts with them. Later, traders were responsible for spreading peanuts to Africa and Asia.
In 1900 labor saving
equiptment is invented
Carver develops
300+ uses for peanuts
Today peanuts contribute over 4 billion annual to
the economy
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Records show that in the 1800s peanuts were first grown commercially in South Carolina and used for oil, food and a cocoa substitute. However, peanuts were still regarded as food for livestock and the poor. It was also still considered very dif-ficult to grow and harvest them, so they were not yet widely grown in the U.S.
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welcome
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1860: The first notable increase in peanut consumption in the United States came in 1860 with the outbreak of the Civil War. Soldiers on both sides turned to peanuts for food.
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Following their popularity boom during the civil war, peanuts began to be sold roasted by street vendors, at baseball games and circuses.
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1900:
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Around 1900, labor-saving equipment was invented for plant-ing, cultivating, harvesting and picking peanuts from the plants, as well as for shelling and cleaning the kernels. With these mechanical aids, peanuts rapidly came into demand for oil, roasted and salted nuts, peanut butter and candy.
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In 1903, George Washington Carver began his research at Tuskegee Institute. While peanut butter had been developed by then, Carver developed more than 300 other uses for peanuts and improved peanut horticulture so much that he is considered by many to be the “father of the peanut industry.” The botanist recognized the value of peanuts as a cash crop and proposed that peanuts be planted as a rotation crop in the Southeast cotton-growing areas where the boll weevil insect threatened the region’s agricultural base.
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Carver proposed peanuts be planted in the SouthEast cotton-growing areas where the boll weevil threatened the agricultural base.
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"buck the peanut man."
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"maybe about
one-hundred
on average."
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"interesting fact... i've
been drivin' since i was nine
years old. i've had 3 speedin'
tickets in my lifetime and
drove over 2 million miles."
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John the peanut grower
answers 15 questions about
his job as a grower and
what all that job entails.
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"JOHN RAY"
"Ok, well first thing we do is we
get our land ready. around april
15th or april 20th we will start
plantin'. once we get them planted
we don't do anything to em' just
let em' come up. we sometime have
to irrigate em' to get em' up. once
they're up we start sprayin' em'.
we also irrigate em'. it's very
important to irrigate em'."
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"you have to use your own
judgement. we have amounts
on charts to guide us but
usually we just use our own
judgement, just like we use
our own judgement
about fungicides."
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DO YOU HAVE ANY HELP
SPRAYING TH PEANUTS?
"HELP? I SPRAY EM' MYSELF.
I DO ALL THE SPRAYIN' AND
ALL THE PLANTIN' MYSELF."
"it's just the best there is. i discovered
that provost was the best controlled.
then as the peanuts mature, you
don't need all that. headline is a
very good product- it's expensive,
but good. you treat the peanuts with
headline then you spray em' with
provost every two weeks."
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DO YOU GET HELP WITH ANYTHING?
"YEAH, THEY'LL BRING WATER WAGONS
THROUGH THE FIELD AND STUFF LIKE
THAT. BUT I DO EvERYTHINg ELSE MYSELF
BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT."
"YES, IF YOU DON'T GET THIS
ALL YOU IN TROUBLE, SO I JUST
DO IT MYSELF."
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DO YOU HARVEST THEM ALL YOURSELF
AS WELL?
"WHEN WE HARVEST EM', I
PLOW EM' UP AND MY OTHER
GUYS PICK EM'."
WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART
OF GROWING PEANUTS?
"IRRIGATIN' EM'. AND DRY
WEATHER. DRY WEATHER."
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ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
PEANUTS? IF SO WHAT KIND DO
YOU PLANT?
"THERE ARE. THE PEANUT
WE PLANT NOW IS CALLED THE
GEORGIA 06'. IT CAN STAND
A LOT OF WaTER. THERE ARE
A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEANUT
VARITIES. THE UNIVERSITIES
OF GEORGIA AND FLORIDA ARE
CONSTANTLY WORKING ON NEW
VARITIES. CURRENTLY THE 06 IS
STILL THE NUMBER ONE
PRODUCER, AND IT IS RESISTANT
TO THE SPOtTED TOMATO
WHIP VIRUS."
WHAT IS THE TOMATO WHIP
VIRUS?"WE USED TO HAVE A PEANUT
CALLED THE GEORGIA GREEN
AND THE TOMATO WHIP VIRUS
STARTED EATIN' IT UP. YEARS
BACK, THAT TOMATO WHIP VIRUS
CAME FROM NORTH CAROLINA
AND MOVED TO OUR AREA. ONCE
IT GOT HERE IT STAYED HERE
AND NEVER LEFT."
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WHAT DETERMINES THE SIZE OF THE
PEANUT?
ARE THERE DIFFERENT
TASTES THAT COME ALONG
WITH THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
PEANUTS?
ARE PEANUT HERBICIDES
EXPENSIVES?
"SOME OF THEM NATURALLY
GROW BIGGER. YOU'VE GOT
PEANUTS LIKE THE VIRGINIA
PEANUT AND THEY CALLED
THEM 'BALLPARK PEANUTS'."
"some are, some aren't. it
just depends on what you
are usin'. you do not want
to have weeds in peanuts.
if you got a lot of weeds
you ain't gonna have no
peanuts."
"YEAH, ALL DIFFERENT TYPES
OF PEANUTS HAVE DIFFERENT
TASTES. SOME CAN BE A LOT
MORE BITTER THAN OTHERS.
ALL THE 06' PEANUTS HAVE A
GOOD SWEET TASTE."
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APEANUTCULTURE
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AMERICANS EAT MORE THAN 600 POUNDS OF PEANUTS AND OVER 700 POUNDS OF
PEANUT BUTTER EACH YEAR.
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AMERICANS EAT MORE THAN 600 POUNDS OF PEANUTS AND OVER 700 POUNDS OF
PEANUT BUTTER EACH YEAR.
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THERE ARE ENOUGH PEANUTS IN ONE ACRE
TO MAKE 30,000 PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES.
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THERE ARE ENOUGH PEANUTS IN ONE ACRE
TO MAKE 30,000 PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES.
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