Description
A classic from the Golden Age of American Farming, is as useful and pertinent for homesteaders and small scale-farmers today as it was when it was first published more than seventy year-five years ago. A wealth of labor and money-saving projects fills its pages: spill-proof chicken waters; a portable chicken coop; a lightweight orchard ladder; a small truss bridge; an easy fence-post and stump-puller; gates that don’t sag; gates that lift over snowdrifts; a handy wood splitter – even a bicycle-powered washing machine.The Table of Contents includes the following:
- Workshop and Tools
- The Steel Square
- In and Around the House
- Barns and Stock
- Poultry and Bees
- Garden and Orchard
- Field and Wood
- Gates and Doors
- When We Build
- Worth Knowing
ISBN: 1-55821-432-1
