| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 5, June 1878 issue of The Farm Journal: A Monthly Magazine for the Field and Fireside, a newspaper published monthly by Jas. P. Armstrong & Co. in Montgomery, 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.Somebody's mother (poem); Peas as a green manure; Dr. Ravenel's letter; The farm orchard and garden; Sheep and cotton; Root crops; The farmer's platform; The commercial convention at Mobile; Commercial fertilizers on corn; The difference between scrub and improved breeds; Groundpeas or peanuts; Cotton seed meal as a fertilizer; Congressional appropriations for Alabama; A cluster of poems (book review); Sweet potatoes; About keeping sheep; Bermuda grass and sheep; Points of a dairy cow; How to make barnyard manure; The cotton picker; Farm work for June; Home sources of manure; Does farming pay?; The mischief of passion; Oats; The cost of fencing; Questions and answers; A hard sum; Improvement of common sheep; What he wanted; Cotton culture--Haw Ridge and Editor; The claims of country homes and country employments; Forgot the name; The old farm house (poem); Letter of Dr. Ravenel; The road laws of Alabama; Thick wind and broken wind; To rid poultry of vermin; Save your soapsuds; The household (Little things; Calla lilies; Valuable receipts (cleaning recipes); An old poem (poem); The story of the Bible (book review)); Management of peach orchards; Treatment of mares when in foal; Feeding horses; Manure for orchards; The power of the Grange; Coosa County: Its beauty, minerals and scenery; Utility of the Grange (essay); Scratches, grease, cracked heels; Green manuring; A boy who stuck to farming; The scuppernong grape; A balky horse; The crop prospect; Blount Springs; Shepherd dogs; Remedy for the curculio; Liquid manures; What a plant can do; Blight in pear trees; The difference; What to teach the boys; Officers of the State Grange; Railroad timetables;
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