| Summary: | This is the volume VI, issue III, December, 1928 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: Alabama's system of agricultural research; Agronomy (Cotton, Fertilizing and poison, Soil preparation, Three-year rotation, Soybeans, Time and rate of seeding winter legumes, Growth of winter legumes, Seeding legumes, Nitrogen for corn, Corn varieties, Cotton spacing, Results of cotton variety tests, The 'Old Rotation' experiment, Nitrogen for cotton and time of planting, Rotation experiment away from Auburn, Hay mixtures, Phosphate for cotton); [Editorials]; Agricultural Economics (Local cotton marketing in Alabama, Farm organization in Southeast Alabama, Economic study of poultry in Marshall County); Agricultural Engineering (Soil dynamics, Tractor lugs, Labor-saving machinery in growing oats, Plowing, Local experiment (field work), Cultivators, Planters, Terracing, Hay making); Animal Husbandry (Blackstrap molasses as a supplement to cottonseed meal and Johnson grass hay for fattening steers, Johnson grass hay vs. cottonseed meal and Johnson grass hay for wintering two-year-old steers, Cottonseed meal as a supplement to pasture for fattening steers, Forage crops for fattening hogs, Mineral supplements in the ration of dairy cattle, Improving scrub hogs by the use of purebred sires, A study of vitamins); Entomology (Boll weevil control, Norfolk sandy loam, Cecil clay, Houston clay); Botany (Dry rot-resisting varieties of sweet potatoes, Premature yellowing of Satsumas, Sweet potato curing study); Horticulture (Pecan study); Experiment Station staff; Extension work expands; Personal changes; 'Irises' (book review); 'The Tropical Crops' (book review);
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