| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 8, September 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.Experiments: Their value, and how to conduct them; What can be done for the improvement of agriculture in this district?; Mangel wurtzels; Sheep for men of small means; The salvation of the South: Wheat and oats on the old field lands; Our labor systems; District Granges; Imaginary diseases of horses; The grasses; Agricultural education; Cash and credit; Resignation (poem); A new enterprise; The State Fair; Advantages of pulverizing the soil; A two hundred acre farm; The South, in an agricultural outlook; Possible crops; How to make Grange meetings interesting; Bermuda grass; The value of hen manure; The sand pear; How to milk; Ingrowing toe nails; Wheat experiments; Japan clover; The Household (Cultivating and ornamenting our homes; About mosquito netting; Wrinkles and receipts (household recipes); What to teach; Parlor games; The scrap book); Good advice; An agreeable guest; A committee-man in school; Questions and answers (Tall meadow oat grass; Sheep husbandry); The result of corn and fodder feeding exclusively; For the mule; Plowing under manure vs. top-dressing; Root pruning corn; The State Industrial Association; Railroad timetables;
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