The Peanut Industry: A Selected List of References on the Economic Aspects of the Industry, 1920-1939

Excerpts from the Foreword: This bibliography supersedes and brings to date a typewritten list by Vajen E. Hitz issued in 1931 entitled "The Peanut Industry; Selected References on the Economic Aspects of the Industry…1920 to Date." It contains references to hooks, pamphlets and periodical articles relating to the economic aspects of the peanut industry in the United States and in foreign countries, from 1920 through the first five months of 1939. It includes references on the Agricultural Adjustment program for peanuts, cost of production and labor requirements, grading aid standardization, legislation, markets and marketing, mechanization of the industry, statistics, storage of the crop, and its utilization as feed, in peanut butter and as an oil. A few references on oil extraction and on the nutritive value of the nut have been included. Except when they occur in publications included for other reasons, references on culture, diseases and pests, and analyses of commercial feeding stuffs have been omitted. Periodicals which are organs of the peanut trade have been cited in a special periodicals section. Articles in those periodicals have been listed only when specific reference to them was found in the sources checked, since they contain articles and current notices which are too numerous or too sight.