April 19, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)
No one who raised peanuts last year will deny that they return more profit for less labor than any other crop that can be produced. Let there be plenty of them next year. Almost every person is fond of them, and their sale is a sure thing. We have seen soldiers fill their haversacks to their utmost capacity with peanuts at forty cents a quart. They are very nutritious and nobody has ever been known to get sick from eating two many “goobers.”–Let every farmer have a patch.