| Summary: | This is the volume VII, issue 4, April 1883 issue of Planters Journal: The Organ of the National Cotton Planter's Association of America Which Represents All the Cotton States, a newspaper published monthly by Planters Journal Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 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, business, economics, industry, technology, 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. The first two pages are damaged. 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.Editorial and General (Need of white population in the South--A word or two about where the most crime Is committed; [damaged pages]; The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition; One of the surest ways to attract immigration; Dr. Marshall's reply to Dr. Tucker; Go slow on jute; The Cincinnati dramatic festival; Editorial notes); Internal Improvements (The Cincinnati Southern's new Louisville connection; Slanders refuted--How the government works stemmed the tide; The Southern cotton mills; The demand for long staple); Literary (Important journalistic consolidation; Julian Hawthorne's German adventure; Home sweet home; Morality of Thackery; Texas Siftings (book reviwe); American newspapers in 1883); Apiary (Notes; Enemies of bees); Garden and green-house (Vegetables; Where food plants came from; The Portulaca; Watermelons; Thorough gardening; Garden notes); Woman's work (Women as dentists; The dining room; Preparations for company); Turf and field (The great Stallion Stake--Captured for Louisville by that prince of turfmen, Col. M. Lewis Clark; How to select a horse; General utility horses; Shoulder galls); Snipe shooting in England; Superstitions; Hair dropping off; Live stock (Letter from J. H. Moore--On stock raising in the South--What to do with cotton seed so as to make them bring more money than the lint into the planter's pocket; Mingling stock; Tar; Breeding pigs; The Essex pig; Water for stock; Flock and fleece notes); Poultry (Preserved eggs; Hens vs. hogs; Sitting hens; Poultry keeping; The average yield of eggs; Poultry-notes); Horticultural (Where are the roots?; Reviving fruit trees; Rules for grafting); Moles; General Agriculture (A few practical suggestions; Cultivation a source of fertilization; Cruel treatment of farm animals; Co-operation among farmers; Home-made fertilizers; Substitute for the plow; Two crops in a year, Unground bones dissolved by ashes or lime); The plantation (A review of the situation--Evils of the tenant system and the remedy immigration ; Small vs. large bales--Some practical observations on their comparative advantages to the planter; 'Renting land in the South'; A Southern plantation of to-day); Miscellaneous (The reception--Tendered by the citizens of Vicksburg to the President of the National Cotton Planters' Association, upon His return from the north; Cotton and sugar in Egypt);
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