1930-01: Alabama Farmer Newsletter, Auburn, Alabama, Volume 10, Issue 04

This is the volume X, issue 4, January 1930 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 agricu...

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Main Author: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Agricultural Club
Format: Electronic
Published: Auburn University Libraries
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Online Access:http://content.lib.auburn.edu/u?/stdtpubs,2111
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Summary:This is the volume X, issue 4, January 1930 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: County agents attend conference at Auburn; Auburn man honored national farm body; New buildings (pictorial); The Alabama Polytechnic Institute--A brief history of its founding and progress; Tractor traction--Its place in farming--Did you know that different soils require different tractor lugs? This story tells how; Prevent scrubbing; Getting ready for the hatching season; Auburn students go to Chicago exposition--Fifteen men attend International Stock Show and meetings--Impressive delegation from A.P.I.; News in brief; Giving the proper culture to grapevines means more and better fruit; Curing farm drudgery with sanitation--Unfortunate features of rural life are being nullified by the installation of running water and sewage disposal systems; (editorials); More brick brooders more Alabama fryers; Pullets beat hens in producing eggs; Cattle vs. cotton (poem); Keeps a record knows his hens; Tells how to get ahead of weather; Life; Better marketing assures greater profits from dairy products; Tell how to have improved pasture; Ag alumni page; Alabama Farm Woman (Watch party for New Year's Eve; Kitchen kinks; Has anybody seen my keys?; Our critics; Select the child's wardrobe for health); Pruning of apple trees; Records tell fact about dairy herds; From far and near over Alabama (Mrs. Duggar wins in garden contest; All-year gardens; Landscape lawns; Buy long staple); Can you prune a peach tree properly?; Tell who to stop the 'red robber'; Farm facts; Control of rats on the farm; News briefs; Safe and efficient tools for farm use of explosives; Negro farmer operates modern truck farm; Shelby finds hens bring most income; Little things that make good meat; Campus Farmer (Department grows--Animal industry department of A.P.I. experiences development; Ag Hill gets bounty of new building; Mr. Keigan speaks to class; Seniors look ahead--work; The new year (poem); Students busy again with work at Auburn; Extension workers convene; Title changed--Administration building gets name of 'W. J. Samford Hall'; Blue Key bids extended--Morrison in; Ag honor societies here; Did you ever think that thirty years ago (editorial); Ye co-ed (poem, editorial); Alabama's farmers make bigger crops (editorial); Rural briefs; Tells how to stop red forest robber; News in brief; Auburn leader gets medal for service; State flocks tested for dreaded disease; Baskets bring her needed pin money); Sports (O.D.K cake race; Football captain elected; Freshman numerals awarded; Letter awards announced; Basketball);