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Show B THE ONE DESPISED -PEANUT jy 1 The lowly and unsung peanut is : Atout to come not only into Its own, I ; "but into what has long been consider-I consider-I rt ed something else's. From the most B laughed at and despised of crops it ,Si i has risen by sheer strength of merit B if to a position among the aristocracy of is!?' Southern fields. From toeing the stopcry of childhood It has advanced H , to the place of one of the recognized H ' foods, and tho producer of high-class -plj oil for man's lubrication. Great rush-tJM rush-tJM I es havo been made to the gold fields B of the Klondike in the mad search H i for wealth, and many men have given B up their lives In the attempt to pan H i fortunes from those Ice-defended Hi hills; but in the year of Its greatest i yield the output of the Klondike did H not reach in dollars tho value of the ijjjj country's crop of peanuts The tyg) haughty cotton planter of Mississippi, ,.5 seeing h.ls crop destroyed by the boll :'jjf j- weevil, sought to make up the loss mil by planting peanuts. The first year jig? tho experiment was made with 2,500 Wi acres. T.he result was so satisfactory TgJ) that this year 1,50,000 acres of those 01 rich alluvfal lands have been planted 2;' to goobers, and tlie prospect Is that W&, a much larger crop will be put In jj; next year. The Texas people have jjjjf1 learned of the value"of tho peanut Jj? and thousands of acres of their gi lands are now devoted to their fJL "Growth, Georgia long ago learned 4&? what the peanut "will do for its do-j'ifljr do-j'ifljr toteo, and has reaped a lot of pros-0Jk: pros-0Jk: perity from tho knowledge. Verily,-j Verily,-j the lowly goobler is the goods Balli-01 Balli-01 more Sun. ' " t |