| Summary: | This is the volume V, issue III, December, 1927 Experiment Station Number issue of The Digest, a newsletter published monthly by the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). Some early issues are also published with the Experiment Station and the Agricultural College of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The newsletter includes articles of interest related to the Extension Service. Topics include general news, agriculture, agricultural extension work, home economics extension work, people, and research. 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.Articles: The Search for new facts in Alabama; Agronomy (Cotton, Fertilizing and poison, Soil preparation, Nitrogen for cotton and time of planting, The 'Old Rotation' experiment, Phosphate for cotton, Corn, Seeding legumes, Time and rate of seeding winter legumes, Nitrogen for corn, Three-year rotation, Johnson grass fertilizer test, Soybeans, Methods of seeding oats, Hay mixtures, New experiments); As the editor sees it (editorial); Agricultural economics (Marketing, Farm management); Agricultural Engineering (Tractor lugs, Tillage, Farm machinery, Roofing material, Solar water heater, Blasting and land clearing, Ditching, Rural electrification, Terracing); Animal industry (Forage crops for fattening hogs, Winter feeding of steers, Advantage of grade hogs over scrubs, Size of litter); Dairying (Mineral supplement, Animal nutrition); Poultry (Vegetable protein studies, Force molt project, Determining effects of various feeds on egg production); Botany (Coloring oranges, Pecan scab, Sweet potato storage, Black rot and stem rot in sweet potatoes, Soil toxins); Entomology (Corn weevil, Cotton leaf worm, Mexican bean beetle, Belted bean beetle, Boll weevil hibernation, Turnip web-worm, Cattle lice, The pickle worm and melon caterpillar, The Oriental fruit moth, cotton aphis, and pecan weevil, Dusting for boll weevil control); Horticulture (Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grapes, Blueberries, Strawberries, Cabbage, Irish potatoes, Tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons, Forestry); Experiment Station staff; With the county agents in November; The Farm Bureau has met; Attend International; To attend national meeting; Home agent flashes for November; 'Morgan County girls club leader'; Mr. Duncan honored; The fable of Otto and Duke; Personal news notes and comment; Changes in personnel; Alabama fame spreads;
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