South Danvers Wizard, 4/20/1864, p. 2/4
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS [Editorial] – “The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has announced a decision of importance to dairy farmers.  Persons who carry on farming and keep cows – selling milk, butter, and cheese, and incident to their farming operations – are considered as farmers, and exempt from license, for the sale of their products.
    This is as it should be.  We have ever thought that it was a narrow view of the law to hold that because a farmer who sells milk from his farm, does occasionally, when short of supply, buy milk to furnish his customers, he must pay ten dollars for a trader’s license.”

South Danvers Wizard, 4/20/1864, p. 2/6
TOBACCO – “We think that certain given agricultural men and institutions might be in better business than advising our northern farmers to give more attention to the raising of tobacco!  When potatoes are a dollar and a half a bushel, butter fifty cents a pound, hay twenty-six dollars a ton, and all other produce of prime necessity equally high and scarce, it seems to us something like giving aid and comfort to the enemy, to advise the raising of tobacco.”