| Summary: | This is the volume II, issue 5, August 1879 issue of The Alabama Farm Journal: A Monthly Magazine for the Field and Fireside, a newspaper published monthly in Auburn, 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, economics, 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 issue includes poetry and prose. Pages 155-158 are missing. 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.The rebel dead (poem); Five crops in one year; Farm economy--Hog raising; Parsnips for butter; The future of South Mississippi and Alabama; The penitentiary; The love of flowers; Summer pruning for the grape vine; Are thoroughbreds hardy?; Introduction of the tomato; Woods of Alabama; About the farm; Use lime; Negro tenantry; Experiments and experimenting; Sheep better than cattle; Interesting letter about sheep; Household and Farmers' Cyclopedia (book review); To the farmers of Alabama; Coosa River and Mobile Bar; Sheep will benefit the soil; Mother, home and Heaven; To stop bleeding; The pig; Commercial fertilizers; Value of shade for sheep; Grape rot and its prevention; Egg-culture in France; Is the Grange a success?; Snakes and snake bites; A new grass--The South; Pear blight; Home made vs. commercial fertilizers; 'The nigger' [sic]; Pruning peach trees; Horse racing fairs; Leaching of manures; U. S. Patents issued to Alabama for June, 1879; Rutabagas; Corn culture; Sheep in the Piney Woods; Business farming; Meteorology for June; [missing pages 155- 158] ; Frequent causes of disease in pigs;
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