Peanuts

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

Peanuts.—According to the American Nut Journal there are three hundred million pounds of peanuts grown annually in the United States, yet how few there are who know this. Three hundred fifty thousand acres of land are used and 170,000 persons employed in the industry. The yearly value of the crop is about eleven million dollars. Fifty years ago a few were grown in gardens; now it is cultivated very profitably in all the Southern States, California, Oklahoma, and Missouri, and to some extent in the Northern and Western states. It is said to be one of the very best of foods for cattle, and splendid for the land. What a blessing it would be if it would take the place of the tobacco crop that impoverishes the land more than almost all other crops.