| Summary: | This is the volume XI, issue 7, April 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: The cooperative marketing movement--Farm production on a commercial basis during recent years has caused the cooperative marketing movement to assume relatively higher importance to the farmer; Putting the egg market on ice--Distributing the surplus egg production throughout the year by the medium of cold storage tends to afford the producer a higher average price; Alabama 'pastures' and pastures--In the attempt to produce higher yields of field crops one of our most important producing areas on the farms in Alabama has been neglected; Farm research in the kitchen--A simple test, easily and quickly performed results in considerable saving in labor and expense when preparing for concrete work; When you buy a pecan--The problem of marketing the pecan crop in Alabama is fast becoming one of importance--The annual income from pencans ranges from one-half to one million dollars for the state; (editorials); Louie R. Brothers--An appreciation (memorial); Fertilizer for cotton is named; Extension workers may get leave; Eggs to be cheaper and poultry higher; Summer plans at Auburn announced; Five hundred cows purchased for Indian service; Appropriate pictures brighten up the home; Trench silos are advised by Burns; Turkey market prices appear good for 1931; Curb market sales larger in Alabama; Free of short staple cotton by 1932 is goal; From far and near over the globe (U.S. football recently introduced in El Salvador; World's largest crane recently completed; One-price stores prove successful in Germany; New method of preventing fermentation of vegetables; Wider scope for telephone to be inaugurated; First talking pictures to be produced in India); Ag alumni news; Farmers can use much more cotton; Feed shortage cost limestone $1,808,021; Champion hog man in Alabama wanted; Alabama Farm Woman (Human relationships in the Home Ec. program); College Veterinarian (Parturient paresis (milk fever)); How to make good garden explained; Explosives necessary in highway construction; Improvement work is popular project; Campus Farmer (Gamma Sigma Delta elects nine outstanding seniors; Lovvorn awarded fellowship at Missouri; President Knapp lists outstanding accomplishments; Loving cup awarded; Prof. Robinson receives encouraging telegram; Richardson and Lumpkin to head Farmer; Professor Pope to make study of economical problems; Bulletin by Bailey and Mayton gains recognition; Four ag students elected to Phi Kappa Phi; Winter legume caution stated; Home-mixed chick mash from home-grown feed);
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