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peanut feeder. Squabbles are breaking out over that small spot, and I am sure they are picking up peanut bits dislodged by other species.

In order to write about peanuts, I had to do a considerable amount of reading about this interesting and very useful plant that was so widely grown and eaten in central North Carolina, where I grew up. The historical, economic and botanical facts are fascinating and I was ignorant of many of them.

In a linguistic class at the University of North Carolina, I learned that “goober,” one of the many names for the peanut in the south, had its origin in Africa. From that I assumed that peanuts originated on that continent.

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