Mother's Bookshelf
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September/October 1977
By C.E. Spaulding
Mr. Hunt, a lifelong outdoorsman who would be about 90 if he were still living wrote two books on log cabin construction in 1939 and 1947. Both are reprinted in this unusual work on the building of a backwoods home (including chimney and fireplace) with hand tools only. Many excellent drawings and photographs illustrate the process step by step. The second part of the guide contains a wealth of handsome designs for rustic furniture ... also for fences, bridges, signposts, and other out door structures.166 pages. Paperback. 69009 $3.95
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THE ALMANAC OF RURAL LIVING
by Harvey C. Neese.
Absolutely amazing! We can't even begin to list all the information that's packed into this incredible, almost encyclopedic guide. But just to give you an idea, here are a few sample sections: agronomy (soil chemistry,composting, irrigation, and water-supply systems); hor ticulture (raising fruits and vegetables, grafting and budding, using fertilizers and soil neutralizers); pest control (insects, the plants they favor, the substances-both natural and man-made-used to combat them); animal husbandry (cattle, goats, swine, poultry); veterinary medicine (immunology, injection procedures, livestock, feeding); home industry (foraging, tanning, food storage, weaving, making soap, candles); self-help engineering (plans and instructions for constructing outbuildings and farm and home equipment); health (basic hygiene, first aid, midwifery); and charts and tables (measurements, conversions. "farm figuring", and knot tying illustrations). A real workhorse of a book! 483 pages. Paperback. 70030 $6.95
NEW AGE VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK
by the Rosicrucian Fellowship.
The most complete vegetarian cookbook we've found. Includes food values, menu suggestions, canning, preserving, freezing, use of herbs, and lots of good, sensible recipes. 492 pages. 74057$4.50
OTHER HOMES AND GARBAGE: DESIGNS FOR SELF SUFFICIENT LIVING
by Jim Leckie, Gil Masters, Harry Whitehouse, and Lily Young.
A good many books on "self-sufficient living systems" have been published in recent years, but-for some reason-most either fail to provide enough technological know-how (the "Mickey Mouse approach) or include so much scientific jargon (the "new Einstein" complex) as to make them in comprehensible to the everyday layman. OTHER HOMES AND GARBAGE, however, hits the "alternatives" nail squarely on the head. Put together by four engineers from Stanford, the book covers alternative architecture, small-scale generation of electricity. solar heating principles, waste handling and water supply systems, and agriculture and aquaculture . . . and explains each subject in realistically technical (but entirely understandable) terms. The result is a reference work that goes well beyond the point of philosophy and theory to encompass (hurrah!) the realm of practical application. Charts. tables, facts. figures, and just darned good writing make OTHER HOMES AND GARBAGE a superb primer for the alternatives enthusiast. 302 pages. Large paperback. 70024 $9.95
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