| Summary: | This is the volume II, issue 7, April 1, 1922 issue of Alabama Farmer, a newsletter published monthly during the school year by students in the Agricultural Club of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). The newsletter includes articles of interest related to agriculture and agriculture education. Pages 4 and 5 are missing (or mis-labeled) from this issue. 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: Dean Gray and Director Duncan to become active teachers--Courses in farm management, rural organization and extension work to be given; H. A. Carves of Maranhao, Brazil, visits agricultural department of Auburn--Gives special attention to plant breeding work; Farmers to be benefited by radio; Sidelights on a trip through Southeast Alabama; Among the Ag. colleges of the country; Land-clearing in Baldwin County; Athletics (Change in baseball schedule; High school track and field meet, Annual R.O.T.C. to meet, R.O.T.C. horse show); Plan to fill new sweet potato curing house; New assistant animal husbandryman coming soon; Dr. Cook leaves Auburn; Great world's dairying Congress coming in 1923--Extensive plans made by association planning the Congress (Origin and scope of the Congress, Background of Congress, American and dairying, Object of Congress, Plan of organization); Home economics--Hospitality and the etiquette of entertaining; Phi Kappa Phi offers cash prizes to freshmen for essay; Elmore County farmers visit Auburn; Ag. club notes; Startling losses result because of poor storing of cotton--Low grades of cotton reflect heavy losses from the factory to the farmer; I. T. Quinn; Gamma Sigma Delta selects best all-round junior; Veterinary notes--Cow belonging to animal husbandry department dies with tumor of the heart; Alumni notes; Prof. Cauthen leaves Auburn--To work with the Chilean Nitrate Committee; Entomology; The Ags. and Vets. state an April Fool's Circus;
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