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00 123 "Last fall, I told you not to ho down your J - ' 'Vfefi 'LH . peanut crop but to picMt-sell the. iiutsio " AwWr-. the oil mills-and save the hay. My advice " . ZSIp "MS iv 7? 1 fnnl was good. My; message today is equally jZl&rJj clmt fefr C CCx XyHt 1 ,, M - j valuable." - - , C SHOOT. SeCy. 7 , QvJ' 1 f f' . j "Don't think that any planter that is good for planting corn or peas will also do for peanuts." In fully Jialf the cases, the causeof poorstands has been due. to improper. planting. ". I realized two years ago that poor stands meant fewer pea i nuts , to pick. It would keep many farmers 'from growing "goobers". It hurt the sale of my picker. So we held a factory -.meeting. We put it squarely up to, Mr. Benthall to build a real planter for peanuts a -planter that would be infallible. Mr. Benthall has been to the peanut business what Neely was to the cotton industry. The. result of the work was the Ben thall Peanut Planter. It plants..neanuts better than any ma chine; ever planted them before.. It pays for itself in a single season over and over'again "It plants either Spanish or Virginia huts. No need to hull the Spanish. It plants them in the shell the way they should be planted. I've walked behind the planter watching it -drop the seed with mathematical accuracy in a way no planter ever dropped peanuts before. It's a marvel of simplicity. First, the opener presses out a firm furrow. The seed are dropped into it equally spaced. Then the big "roller covers them packs the soil around the peanuts just like a good gardener stamps the soil around his seed. The planting is , done in plain sight. You need not worry about skips and bald spots that make such inroads into your yields. Many good dealers have the Benthall, or I will supply you for J$lZ50.f.ab.Suffolk, Va. If the Benthall does not plant pea nuts better than any planter you ever used you can send it back to ine and get your money back. Bruised Peanuts Will Not Germinate MR. C. a. shoop LToK.achinc CoMpan Pie, ase.send me full particulars about ....The Benthall Peanut Planter."- " :he Benthall Peahut. Picker. hPP!int L.acres-of peanuts th!s sPrl"g- IT wffl) do custom work. ; . Karne... ' 1 ; . "' IV 0. .. My first message was "How to plant." My second is fWhat to plant." Don't plant cylinder-picked . nuts. " Poor stands time after time have been traced back to using seed that were threshed by cylinder machines. Cylinder-picked nuts may teem to be perfect." But such jnachines bruise the nuts. The skin around the kernels cracks. The seed will not germinate. V - Get Bengali Picked Nuts 'You will have seed that are not bruised or cracked peanuts that are literally hand-picked; for the Benthall simply picks the nuts off the vines! with "mechanical fingers" that are , more accurate than human hands. And hundreds of times more rapid. It does not thresh and rack thiem. i : .This i machine, pays for itself on every 200 bags' picked, so thousands of farmers now use them. The big peanut grower "cannot, afford to be without it," tor hand-picking is far too costly.' s. ' . - "' l"If you are going to grow peanuts, it will pay you to get a ": machine of ydur own and havedean, sound peanuts better than the average hand-picked nut You will save. the valu- able vines worth from $15 to $30 per ton, which cylinder machines grind to smithereens. "The Benthall Peanut Picker can be .operated with 'either horse or engine power, it is made in aitterent sizes. .Tlmeshers require from 10 h.p. to 15 h.p. The Benthall needs only a 4 h.p to 6 h.p. engine. - Earn $1,500 a Season. "If. your acreage is small you can pay, for your machineand make it : piay big money picking for others. Many men do custom work and make big profits with Benthalls. Some ' earn $1,500 a season. I sell the machine on an iron-clad money-back guarantee. It pays for itself on your farm. Get lull particulars aboutmy offer and jny "Give-you-the-profif'-proposition on the Benthall Engine. Fill out the coupon and state whether you want the Planter or the Picker, or both. Get in touch with , me now before the big rush of orders begins and insure early delivery." P.F. B. D County,,, " V ' J J Route ; State..:..,...; D o D D D E f C A. SHOOP, Secretary, Benthall Machine Company, -Vfl 105 &osp Street, SUFFOLK, VA. ? OT7 ,',. V :.VS - , ' ' ' ' ' ' -V - "- - ;; " . ' I ! 1 1 ! ,1 i t : s. -V Il .1 I 1 I i 1 i 1
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