| Summary: | This is the volume V, issue 1, January 1882 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. Pages 11-12 are missing. 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 National Cotton Planters Association; The cotton crop of 1881-1882; Cheap cotton; What is to be done with the bales donated as Christmas presents to the Association?; The Florida Ship Canal; Address of Mayor Courtnay, of Charleston, South Carolina, on the disabilities of the unaided South in public school facilities; National Anti-Monopoly League); Agricultural (Calendar; Letter of a professor of the Mississippi Agricultural College; A valuable letter on important subjects; Manures for cotton, and cotton culture); Horticultural (Fruit growing in the South; Covering strawberries); Floral (Blossoms in winter; Colors in the flower garden; Jessamine; Flower culture); Gardening (Kitchen garden; Early gardens; Weeds; Moles); Stock raising (A fine herd of Jerseys; The Berkshire hog); Internal Improvements (The Erlanger system); Dairy (To cure a kicking cow; How to tell good butter; Bitter milk; Proportion of milk to butter); Apiary (The profits of bee-keeping; Honey as food; To prevent swarming); [missing pages 11-12] ; [convention notes and addresses] ; Some leading exhibits at the International Cotton Exposition;
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