| Summary: | This is the volume X, issue 8, May 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: Students train for boll weevil work; Calhoun County cattle; Foresees better day for dairy industry; Balancing the farm program--Arrangement of labor, crops, livestock, financing, and other farm enterprises to afford more satisfaction and profit--This is balance; Fighting the boll weevil effectively--Calcium arsenate combined with a practical knowledge of its use insures the grower against losses; The farmer and the middleman--Cooperative buying and selling by producer and consumer cuts down middleman profits; Muscles versus farm motors--Farm motors offer the solution for high power-cost and consequent high production-cost; Our modern farm machinery--Competition and crop shortages have made it imperative that the farmer adopt more modern methods; Less expensive weight on stock with silage--Perhaps no other single item pays so high a rate of interest, is the report of Agricultural Experiment Station; Winners of crop contests announced; (editorials); Farmers' Week set July 28-August 2 (editorial); Farm boys join 4-H club ranks (editorial); First term of summer session at Auburn will open June 2; Two 4-H club boys win coveted trip; Summer hay crops named at Auburn; Black walnut growing affords real profit; Proper nitrogen source yields greater profits; Ohio farmer wins title of world's Corn King; Father and son receive cotton contest honors; Ag alumni page (autographs); Alabama Farm Woman (Why not a charming room for every girl?; Selection of small kitchen equipment); A.C.L.A. conference held; From far and near over Alabama (Leaders foresee farm book trucks; Windmills pump water for farms; Brown names poison for garden insects; Campaign to stress egg as food source; Auburn says); Orchardists warned against the 'quack'; Top-dressing will increase the yield; State short course for 4-H club girls; Baldwin buys car purebred Herefords; Tells how to stop pests of pecans; Brown recommends keep garden busy; Brick brooder is proved efficient; Top-dressing of oats yields profit; Facts on cotton spacing are given; Four-H club girls win coveted trip; Homemakers exchange; Diet needs foods rich in vitamin B; Controls are given for garden insects; Auburn says; Hercules produces new motion picture; Campus Farmer (R. L. Lovvorn best all around junior; Gray chosen president of the senior class; Omicron Delta Kappa pledge ten outstanding juniors; Ag Hill executive cabinet members; Guyton chosen leader of Gamma Sigma Delta; Work begins on new textile building; (portion of page missing); Georgia 4-H members make record yield; Colbert planting improved cotton; News in brief); Malthus never knew commercial fertilizer; Sports (New Tiger coach; Students defeat profs by large score);
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