| Summary: | This is the volume III, issue 2, November 1922 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: Fruit and vegetable marketing conference; Agricultural fair a great success--Co-eds play prominent part; Auburn Y.M.C.A. publishes A.P.I. news letter; Queensland becomes important cotton producing country; Junior and senior ag. Men learn much from trip to Kilby Farm; Expression of thanks to the people of Auburn and Opelika; The hydraulic ram and its relation to the farm; Agricultural engineering chief of United States Department of Agriculture--Visits Auburn and confers with Prof. Nichols and Mr. Hart; Home demonstration agents coming to Auburn; Horticultural notes; [editorials]; Erskine Ramsay Day (editorial); What is news? (editorial); Alumni notes--W. B. Farrar of the class of '14 is high official in Texas Farm Bureau; Those who founded The Alabama Farmer; Athletics; What Alabama needs; Vet notes (Dr. Patterson, '21, becomes member of vet. faculty, Seniors raise fund for purchase of drugs and 'subs', ); Did you know?; The Montgomery fat stock show; Extension news--J. N. Robbins, county agent of Monroe County, is killed; W. D. Clayton dies--Prominent in demonstration work; Home economics; Personal experience of a vocational agriculture teacher; Growing apples in Alabama (Why Alabama does not grow her own apples, Apples have done well at Auburn; Spraying is essential); Forestry in Alabama--National interest in forestry has spread to Alabama; I am the farmer; Ag. club notes; United States Department of Agriculture--Weather Bureau, Animal husbandry; Where ag. men go; Service to agriculture; Tile drains pay; Orchard schools; Nubbins, nuts, cheese and scratchers;
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