| Summary: | This is the volume XI, issue 8, May 1931 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: Training through activities- participating in activities on a college campus--Will give to a student that which would otherwise be lost; The difficulty of a task presents no just reason for refusing it--In this period of depression we should not become discouraged but should put our shoulder to the wheel and move onward; Ag Hill organizations--Every boy who enrolls in the College of Agriculture at Auburn is expected to become a member of one or more organizations on Ag Hill; To Alabama high school graduates--The Dean of Agriculture and Director of Experiment Station gives his personal message to the high school graduate; Alabama's first American Farmer;--Perseverence, a fixed goal, a desire to win enables an Alabama boy to attain a national honor; (editorials); Food for family at very low cost (editorial); Good crop of winter legumes enrich land; Five colonies of bees to supply honey needs; Auburn workers state farm rule; Better feeding of cows is explained; New cotton seed food on market; Milk is cheap food and also good food; Better business outlook is seen; Alabama farmers cut down expenses; More acres in feed crops recommended; Better cotton is Greene County aim; From far and near over the globe (U.S. exports of poultry products gain in 1930; Federal and state governments to stock streams with trout; U.S. takes 95 per cent of Japan's raw silk exports; British firms to manufacture oil from coal by new process; Cold storage palnts for Ontario apple crop); Ag alumni news (autographs); Warning is issued to livestock owners; 2,200 Alabama cows are on official test; Shake that cold (poem); Dame Fashion reconsiders; Home Economics (The high school girl goes to college); College Veterinarian (Atony of the forestomachs of the cow; The Buffalo gnat problem in the South); If I were a farmer; Fight insects to have good garden; Garden insects and how they are controlled; Alabama women to use more cotton; Rural church meet at Auburn planned; 1,000 Cullman boys to do 4-H club work; Campus Section (Two honorary member taken into the Block and Bridle; Prominent men visit zoology department; fish culture is object of visit; Square and companss winner in go-to-church contest; Commencement exercises broadcast from Auburn; Professor D. G. Sturkie studying at Michigan; Ag banquet hailed big success; Professor Pope marries; Cattle branding an old practice; Six Mobile schools are being landscaped; 12 clubs of 4-H boys enroll 443 members; Club girls will meet at Auburn);
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