| Summary: | This is the volume VII, issue 2, February 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. 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 (The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition; The ploughshare and pruning hook; The proposed 'Cotton Syndicate'; Nature, the silo of the South; Colorado's prosperity; The Louisville Exposition; A little self-praise; Some noteworthy contrasts; View of Capt. Eads relative to the Cotton Exposition; Generalities); Agricultural (Furman's farming; Upland rice; The philosophy of it; Ensilage for feeding; Tile-drainage for farms); Horticultural (Pruning shrubs; Grape cuttings--New method); Plantation work (More farmers work; For fence posts; Cheap silo; Manure piles; Gin house items; A machine for picking cotton); Live Stock (Stock raising in the South vs. cotton; The small hog the best; Sheep vs. cattle); Woman's work (The South's need of good cooks; Housekeeping; Hints for home); Floral (Chrysanthemum culture; About pruning; The lily's home); Dairy (Advantages of dairying; How butter may be spoiled; Hay or corn fodder for cows); Apiary (The busy bee (poem); Feeding bees in winter; How to hive a swarm; Honey as a commercial product); Turf and field (The fastest records; Nashville sporting meeting; Turf and field; Spring running meeting; Breaking colts; A trusty pair); Literary (How 'Innocents Abroad' was written; Kittie and I (poem); Dakota (poem); Paul Gustave Dore; A medical opinion on kissing); Poultry (Dark Brahmas; Habitual neglect; Chicken hygeine; Poultry notes); Jute Culture (Proceedings of the Mississippi State Jute Convention; More about jute--When and how to plant it--More easily cultivated and more profitable than cotton); The $5,000 prize; Industrial and scientific (The New South; What the telescope did for astronomy; Bituminous coal in Alabama; Spontaneous combustion; Our wool production; Industrial notes); Fashion (Color red (poem); Ladies' street costumes); Internal improvements (A Southern charge against Southern mills; What Georgia has done); Miscellaneous (My valentine (poem); How to raise Irish potatoes; The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Convention; From our Southern Exchange);
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