1932-04: Alabama Farmer Newsletter, Auburn, Alabama, Volume 12, Issue 07

This is the volume XII, issue 7, April 1932 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,2547
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Summary:This is the volume XII, issue 7, April 1932 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: Why Alabama should raise more livestock--Market your waste and by-products through livestock; Lettuce--This popular American salad crop was worth thirty-one million dollars in 1928; Activities are important--Students must take part in some extracurricular activities if the full benefits of college are to be gained; Carlot marketing of poultry--Farmers can market their poultry advantageously by the carlot system; Chickens require good green feed; [editorials]; Soybeans rank high for making good hay; Clean milk increases consumption; Ag alumni news (Editors-in-chief of the Alabama Farmer); 2-Mule outfit leads to better farming; More mixing fertilizer; Want carload of bulls; Organized war on rats is planned; College Veterinarian (Two very important parasites in poultry; Impaction of the rumen; Two hog shows for Alabama next fall); Home Economics (How to plan meals is told by expert; Vitamin B foods needed by babies; Money makers for farm women named; How to feed family at low cost is told; Custard cooking hints are given); Section harrow for early cultivation; Shrubbery insect control is given;