Summary: | This is the volume III, issue 2, April 7, 1877 issue of Jounal of Progress: Devoted to Popular Science, Progressive Agriculture, Improved Mechanical Industries and the Country's Good in General, a newspaper published monthly by Prof. J. P. Stelle in Mobile, Alabama. The newspaper includes news, information, facts, correspondence, editorials, illustrated ads, and articles of interest related to agriculture and rural life. Topics include agriculture, livestock, birds, flowers, home economics, food, clothing and fashion, business, economics, industry, technology, politics, and statistics. Articles vary greatly in length and may be written by newspaper staff or outside contributors; summarized or copied from other newspapers; or summarized statements from public figures. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.How a mosquito bites; History of cotton; Southern industries; Carpeting; Cotton culture; Locusts; For reflection; A perplexing question; Artificial butter; Stock raising; Moon philosophy; Spare the broom; Go to work; Marketing fruits; The culture of flowers; Let us read; What is sugar?; How to hang paper; Small beginnings; Learn a trade; The chufa; Seeds; Progress; Stock raising in the South; Foreign immigration; An old rose; What to do down South; Agricultural chemistry; The colored people; The young horse; The kitchen garden; Be guarded; Alabama; Undeceptiveness of nature; Light in dwellings; The truth; To purify tallow; Ice cream;
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