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Volume 82 Number 3
May/June, 1998
What's happening this month
on your Countryside homestead...
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| Home & family |
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| Welcome to my home! 25 |
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| Country kitchen: |
| Stocking the pantry, Wild plum jelly, paw paw Pie, vegetable soup, singing cake, 51 |
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| Family life: |
| Teenagers find other interests, but return to homesteading, 53 |
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| Home education: |
| Student thinks home school is a good choice, 54 |
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| Home health: |
| Ward off colds and flu, 55 |
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| Family finance: |
| Find barters in unexpected places, 66 |
| It's your credit. Check it! 66 |
| Start a buying club, 67 |
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| Home business: |
| Beware of work-at-home scams, 64 |
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| A living from the land: |
| Produce more eggs (and profit) with hoop houses, 61 |
| Farmers' markets, 63 |
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| Home computers: |
| For cheap computers, think used, 77 |
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| Yard & gardens |
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| The landscape: |
| Flowers in the garden, 2 8 |
| Pond in a boat, 28 |
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| The garden: |
| Getting irises to bloom, 29 |
| The balance: soil, plants, insects, 30 |
| A "family/market" garden, 31 |
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| The orchard: |
| Apple varieties, 68 |
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| The woodlot: |
| The many uses of wood, 69 |
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| Livestock |
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| The henhouse: |
| Raising cbicks in a cardboard condo, 33 |
| First year witb chickens, 34 |
| Advice on guineas, 35 |
| Guineas for tick control, 36 |
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| The rabbitry: |
| Young rabbit raiser shares what be has learned, 41 |
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| The goat barn: |
| Why Oberbasli Swiss, 37 |
| Pygmy goats, 39 |
| Recordkeeping made easy, 40 |
| Canned goat milk, 40-41 |
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| The family cow: |
| Backyard dairy becomes a memorable two years, 42 |
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| Beef cattle: |
| Dehorning cattle, 44 |
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| The pig pen: |
| Hogs in the garden, 31 |
| In hoop houses, 61 |
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| The sheep shed: |
| Icelandic breeders start association, 44 |
| Feedback on hybrid vigor, commercial production and Katahdins, 45, 46 |
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| The homestead dog: |
| Fila Brasileiro, 32 |
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| The law: |
| Dog does its job, gets owner in trouble, 70 |
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| News |
| from the countryside: |
| The Great Ice Storm of '98, 26 |
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| Country conversation: |
| Chats along the road, 6 |
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| The world: |
| The "antique" value of prudence and the psychology of economics, 78 |
| Where the money went, 83 |
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| The shop |
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| Arts & crafts: |
| Make your own greeting cards with creative rubber stamping, 73 |
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| The workshop: |
| Eliminate stale fuel problems, 50 |
| Preserving gasoline, 50 |
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| The "Cub" that was an M, 8 |
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| The machine shed: |
| Instead of a trailer, consider a carry-all, 46 |
| Tool, toy or trap? Part I of a series, 48 |
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| The back 40 |
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| Nature: |
| The trouble with yellow jackets... 56 |
| The brown recluse spider, 58 |
| Forecast Lyme disease with acorns, 58 |
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| Foraging: |
| Stalking greens, potherbs and shoots, 59 |
| Using snares, 76 |
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| Old-time skills: |
| The ancient skill of snaring, 76 |
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| After chores |
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| Time off: |
| Let's go to the fair! 71 |
| An outhouse I'll never forget, 75 |
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| Ask Countryside, 84 |
| Book reviews, 84 |
| After chores, 98 |
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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