A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools running a grindstone making a dumb waiter making a cradle how to clean a well how to stake out stock bee keeping how to transplant trees how to build a bridge for a small stream.
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A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools running a grindstone making a dumb waiter making a cradle how to clean a well how to stake out stock bee keeping how to transplant trees how to build a bridge for a small stream.
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This book stimulated many memories from my childhood days on a farm in PA. Shared it w/ my brother, we shared many of these memories and enjoyed it very much.
teddysmomma
Nov 12, 2009
Historic value
This book is valuable as a tool to explore devices used a century ago. Only a few are of use on today's farm.
naesatt
Oct 11, 2008
Dissapointment
This book only barely touches on handy devises, could have been so much more. Wanting much more info than this novelty book.....