| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 7, August 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.The hall (poem); Fish culture; What an old man would do if he were now young; Vetch and Bermuda grass; Corn as a fodder plant; Cows holding up milk; India as a cotton producer; The bagging question; Scuppernong wine; The ostrich; To a cow (poem); Orange culture in Alabama; Rust in wheat--Puccinia graminas; The best sheep for the South; Winter pasturage; The absolute requisites for keeping fowls in good thrift; Sweet potatoes for cows; Novel views of corn culture; Why cabbages head; The most useful animal; Alfalfa or lucerne; Oatmeal; Superiority of the Jersey cow; The wealth and wants of Southern agriculture; The farmer feeds them all; Farm work for August; The husbandman; Ruminating; The matrimonial lottery; Farmers in council; The beggar weed; The tariff and the farmer; What ruins cotton gins; Orchard grass; Variety of diet in feeding stock; Jute (Letter of Professor Waterhouse); Questions and answers (Oat meal; Feeding cotton seed to hogs; Topping cotton; Pea vine hay); State Grange Fair; The Household (Woman's work; Ornamental work; I shall do as I like; Worth remembering; Canning tomatoes; Fruit stains; Four important rules; French toast; Proper way to cook eggs); Crop prospects--crowding corn; Dogs and sheep; Labor systems; Useful formulas; Renovating old pastures; Railroad timetables;
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