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Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills: A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions

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The mundane and practical knowledge that keeps the world running is the topic of this book. Given a little knowledge and a little experience can make jobs of creating and maintaining a household and small farm very satisfactory. Logsdon gives detailed directions for carrying out many jobs around the house and farm, providing many illustrations. --- Contents: Part I: Home Improvement: The Home Workshop - Maintaining and R repairing - Home Comfort and Wood Stoves -- Part II: Home Productivity: Making and Making Do: everyday household items - Food Preparation from farm animals -- Part III: In the Yard and Garden: Things to Build and Maintain from Septic Tanks to Walls and Fences and Barbeques - Garden Skills -- Part IV: Around the Barn: Construction of Coops, pigpens, corncribs and barns - Livestock: Fences, gates, milking, raising and training livestock -- Part V: On the Land: In the Fields: Pastures and Crops - Woodlot Management.

Language: English

Pages: 460

Format: Hardcover

Release: October 01, 1985

ISBN 13: 9780878575770

Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills: A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The mundane and practical knowledge that keeps the world running is the topic of this book. Given a little knowledge and a little experience can make jobs of creating and maintaining a household and small farm very satisfactory. Logsdon gives detailed directions for carrying out many jobs around the house and farm, providing many illustrations. --- Contents: Part I: Home Improvement: The Home Workshop - Maintaining and R repairing - Home Comfort and Wood Stoves -- Part II: Home Productivity: Making and Making Do: everyday household items - Food Preparation from farm animals -- Part III: In the Yard and Garden: Things to Build and Maintain from Septic Tanks to Walls and Fences and Barbeques - Garden Skills -- Part IV: Around the Barn: Construction of Coops, pigpens, corncribs and barns - Livestock: Fences, gates, milking, raising and training livestock -- Part V: On the Land: In the Fields: Pastures and Crops - Woodlot Management.

Language: English

Pages: 460

Format: Hardcover

Release: October 01, 1985

ISBN 13: 9780878575770

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