| Summary: | This is the volume IX, issue 5, May 1884 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.The Old North State--Her progress, prosperity, and prospects--The part that some of her sons are playing in the great industrial drama--A notable example of the kind of new blood that is reinvigorating the South; Meeting of the Mississippi Press Association; The progress of the Exposition--Preparations for the Mississippi Exhibit; Probable effect on Southern lands, of the low prices of grain and other prairie products; The 'Right Now' policy; How the Mississippi Railroad Supervision Law (?) is proving a stumbling block to business; The Educational Bill; Internal improvements (A silk culture bureau; Opinion of Northern men on immigration to Mississippi; The floods of 1884; Atlanta Constitution illogical); General Agriculture (Prof. Myers' address on cotton seed, its uses and products; The cultivation of tobacco; Address of Gov. Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina, delivered at the Convention of the National Agricultural Association at New York, February, 1884; Early working of crops; Winning its way; Small industries on the farm; A good creed; Seed corn; Charcoal for manure; Cotton on sandy land); Apiary (Bee-keeping as woman's work; Hybrids as honey gatherers); Horticultural (Budded peach trees; International fruit show; Current bushes); The Plantation (The cotton song (poem); Steele's Bayou; Take care of the roots and the roots will take care of the plants; A letter from Vice-President Cockrill; Potting plants); Fashion (Summer costumes; Graduating and school dress); Woman's work (Woman's work at the Exposition); Live Stock (Protection against gnats; Gentleness toward horses; Information wanted); Garden and green-houses (Floral notes; Tomatoes); Poultry (Arrangement of perches); Miscellaneous (Mullein vs. cod liver oil; A few suggestions;
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