| Summary: | This is the volume V, issue V, February, 1928 Annual Report 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: Another year of extension work in Alabama; Statistics; The average county agent; Men days per project; Personnel changes; Agricultural engineering; As the editor sees it (editorial); Buying and selling (Cooperative selling, Cooperative buying, Curb markets, Curb market social contacts, Pine-needle baskets); Entomology; Farm economics; Forestry; Horticulture; Information (Duties of the department); Livestock (Ton-litter demonstrations, Beef cattle, Sheep, Dairying (Purebred sires, Home grown feeds, Cooperative feed buying), Cow testing associations (Record work with dairy cows, Official testing, Dairy schools, Dairy manufacturing, Butter judging demonstrations, Home butter making, Summary of LIvestock work)); Poultry (Home poultry); Soils, Crops, Fertilizers (Fertilizer (Greene County, Randolph County, Clarke County, Dale County, Conecuh County, Monroe County, Hale County, Limestone County, Blount County)); Boys' club work (Pig clubs, Poultry clubs, Dairy calf clubs, Miscellaneous projects, Washington Camp, Extracts from reports, Value of club products, Estimated value of those not reporting, Retrospection, Club work statistics); Home Demonstration Work (General activities, Clothing, Foods and nutrition, Rural engineering, Beautification of grounds, Home gardens, Home poultry, Marketing, Home dairying, Home management, House furnishings, Home work, Club girls, Club girls' activities, Women days per project, It is finished); January happenings with the county agents; Brockway news work; First branch station; Ray 'Most Useful Citizen'; New clothing specialist; Agricultural outlook; Director endorsed; Farm machinery schools; Essay contest in progress; Big demonstrations; Extension fraternity; 4-H calf club plan; Easter curb market sales; Personal news ; More or less funny; It couldn't be done; Personnel, Alabama Extension Service;
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