| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 6, July 1878 issue of The Farm Journal: A Monthly Magazine for the Field and Fireside, a newspaper published monthly by Herald and Times Steam Plant in Union Springs, 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, prose, and humor. 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.That dreadful get-up bell (poem); Sorghum syrup; The Dallas District Grange; Negro tenants; Alfalfa; The onion and tomato; Broom corn; A live Grange; A letter from Barbour; Bones for manure; A cheap compost; Cotton seed and hogs; Geraniums will drive off snakes; The joy of doing good (poem); What our friends think of us; Cotswold sheep; Reduce expenses and increase profits--How to do it; The scuppernong; Practical experience with fowls; The blessing of the rain; Fertilizers, and how to make them at home; Buckwheat; Plaster on corn; A fine wheat crop; Successful farming; Turning under green crops; Hatching and raising chickens; Good teams and good tools; Restoring run out land; Country homes in the South; Red clover at the South; Sheep in Sumter County; Good farming; The forestry of Alabama; Tall meadow oat grass; Bermuda grass; The cotton worm; About keeping sheep--Bermuda grass and sheep; Farm work for July; Outlook of the farmer; Too much land; Questions and answers (Tobacco culture; Tobacco; A day's plowing; Muck; Worms in the feet of sheep; Sweeping cotton); Barbed wire fence; Salting land--An unsettled problem of agriculture; A dog law; The 'cotton-picker'; Mammoth rye, or diamond wheat; The Household (Domestic education; A beautiful idea; Vegetables; 'Wrinkles and receipts' (household recipes); A little every day; Chasing butterflies; A life-like picture); A two hundred acre farm; Novelties in grape-vine grafting; Bees on the farm; The Auburn Commencement; How to make cows give milk; Officers of the State Grange; The Alabama Industrial Association; Railroad timetables;
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