Summary: | This is the volume IX, issue 8, May 1929 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. 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: Ag banquet big feature of year; Best all-round ag junior; Carreker gets Gamma Sigma Delta cup; An undergraduate views agriculture; John Cottier awarded graduate scholarship; Prominent Auburn man to new field; Agriculture in the Everglades; Farm gardening a paying project--A paying phase of agriculture not to be neglected; Modern farm machinery is fast displacing primitive tools for economic production; Ag seniors 1929 sign off (autographs); Better rations for work animals--A vital factor in progressive farming which is being overlooked; (editorials); Cotton to the front (editorial); The farmer (editorial); A worthy organization (editorial); Cheese making in the South (editorial); An age of machinery (editorial); Some rules for farmers; A man and a mule; Swine profits not from feeding worms--Get rid of the round worms in your hogs--They add no returns; Auburn's grand old matron an example; Alabama winter legumes give big returns reports show; Bats real friends to nut growers; Co-op marketing pools increase profits; Successful sons; Business managers add to Farmer staff; When a moss is not a moss; Turns unused lands to profits by planting to trees; Cultivator demonstrations over state; Auburn summer session dates and faculty announced; Alabama farmers market cooperatively; Oklahoma scores in co-op marketing; Time and tool mark profits from corn; Feed and care of cows; Texas lad gives method of growing prize corn; Checking crops affords great saving; Campus Farmer (Senior class officers--Teague, Carreker, Welden, ag men, go in; Gregory advanced to assistant engineer; Ag club debaters lose to Georgia team; Dramatic meet success; Dr. Pierre leaves here; Annual dedicated to grads to break old custom; Students get undergraduate association--Council election May 6; Lovvorn and Gray on Farmer Board of Control; Extension workers meet in Auburn May 4; Senior prom gets big music; Outstanding men in ODK; Officers inspect R.O.T.C.; Engineer societies combine; Post directs flyers; Farm and home facts; Party affiliation mixed; Adieu--Greetings (editorial); Colleges not industrial aid (editorial); Cal was good at both (editorial); Extension work great; Dean Funchess gives cup to best student judge of dairy cattle; Oriental persimmons can be grown here); Sports (Varsity baseball; To head cagesters; Harriers stepping; Freshman diamondeers);
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