| Summary: | This is the volume II, issue 1, April 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. Pages 26 and 27 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.Dogs vs. sheep; 'Compost' and 'cotton-seed meal'; Practical, self-acting dog law; The cut worm; Cotton seed as a manure; Restoring exhausted soils; Choice seed; About the farm; Causes of unprofitable farming; Profits of sheep breeding; Level culture; Some hints on the planting and harvesting red oats; Wanted, 50,000 young men; Planting for ornament; The comparative values of corn meal and bran; The preservation of forests; The two guests; Special feeding of plants; The use of commercial fertilizers; Agricultural education; Grape culture; Best protection against rusting; Agricultural museum; A pleasant visit, and what it suggested; Progressive farming; Going to; Grumblers; Borax for salting butter; Concentrated manures; Cotton culture; Grass and high farming; Prickly comfrey for stock; Boiling cotton seed for planting; The A & M College ; Renovating worn-out soils; Planting corn and cotton together; [missing pages 26 and 27]; Letter from Georgia ; Guinea or Johnson grass ; Dwarf and other pears; Scab in sheep; The hog cholera; Strawberries; Large crop yields; To dress rabbit skins; Railroad timetables;
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