The Countryside Print Shop

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November/December 1971
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Early in the season, we bought a 10-year-old bulldozer at a pretty reasonable price. Now, operating a bulldozer is quite a bit different than running a typewriter or a printing press and, while I was getting the hang of it, a track fell off. We had it put back on and tightened by professional bulldozer fixers. Then the other track fell off. While they were fixing this one, they got my bulldozer buried in the swamp, brought out a bigger one to pull me out and promptly sunk that one too. You might say I haven't had a whole lot of luck with my bulldozer.

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The bees arrived the first week of May. Our post office closes at 5 p.m., so I wasn't prepared when the postmaster called at 7 to ask me to come get my bees because some were loose and buzzing around the post office.

We got some oats planted, but pretty late: there isn't a whole lot of hope there. We'll put in barley and millet, to get the story on growing small grains on a small scale. Everything else is just about on schedule . . . Work? Sure, but with the garden still weedless, the kid goats weaned, and the orchard in blossom . . . the homesteader's work is more enjoyable than most people's play. Maybe that's the reason more and more folks are looking for the good life, beyond the sidewalks."

As we said, Jerry Belanger and his family are doing it. An they're writing about it first hand. It's worth your while to take a look at COUNTRYSIDE. They're friends. Kinfolk really. Tell `em MOTHER sent you.

COUNTRYSIDE/6 issues a year/$3.00
RABBIT WORLD/10 issues a year/$5.00
DAIRY GOAT GUIDE/10 issues a year/$3.00

COUNTRYSIDE PUBLICATIONS
Marshall, Wisconsin 53559

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