One of the most nutritive of foods, is the peanut kernel, as they contain 7.85% of water, 2.77 % of ash, 29.4756 of protein, 4.2956 of fiber, 1427 % of nitrogen free extract, 49 2956 of fat, 46756 of nitrogen. * * * In describing the uses of peanuts it is scarcely necessary to more than refer to that use which fully three-fourths of the American raised crop is devoted. The nut is sorted in the factory into four grades, the first, second and third being sold to vendors of the roasted peanut, either directly or through jobbing houses. The fourth grade, after passing through a shelter, is sold to confectioners, to be used in the making of "burnt almonds", peanut candy and cheaper grades of chocolates. The extent of the use of the peanuts by the American people will be more fully appreciated when it is remembered that they use 4,000,000 bushels of nuts yearly (at a cost to the consumers of $10,000,000) which do not form a part of the regular articles of food, but are eaten at odd times.