| Summary: | This is the volume III, issue 12, February 2, 1878 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.A town cow; Bad farming; Biennial fruiting trees; Domestic dyeing (dye recipes); Preparing the soil; Dish washing; Berckmans on the scuppernong; Clover at the South; Gale on cuttings; Newspaper deadbeats; The farmer; What can be done; Leslie's newspaper; How we drown; An optical delusion; Pleasures of botany; Poisons; Wet boots; The extinction of species; Size of nails; Home plants; Ten acres; Planting orchards; How to do up shirt bosoms; Shoeing horses; Books and magazines; Correct taste; Peace and prosperity; Wonderful; Pyrachantha; Window plants; The milk pail; Houses; The semi-tropical; Woods; Does farming pay?; When feeding our hens;
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