| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 12, January 1879 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.Be gentle with thy wife (poem); Does 'high farming' pay?; Begin right; Some facts about lime; A new theory of hog cholera; Commercial fertilizers; The public debt of Alabama; Cooking food for stock; Elements of plants; Farm machinery; Good cropping; Decomposing manures in the soil; Fine sheep for Alabama; David Dickson on the fence question; Phosphoric acid; The peanut as an article of food; Corn culture; Pasture for swine; Blight in fruit trees; Management of breeding stock; Money crops; The State Grange; Hogs fattened without corn; The State Grange Fair; State Grange of Alabama; A stranger's impressions of Alabama, her people and her agriculture; Hints toward Southern planting; Choice of seed; Repeal of the crop lien law; The proposed new county ; David Dickon on farm management ; Artificial fertilizers; Railroad timetables;
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