RAISING LIVESTOCK POULTRY FARMING FRUIT GOATS PIGS BEES

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RAISING LIVESTOCK POULTRY FARMING FRUIT GOATS PIGS BEES

Raise your own food and be confident doing it! You can Grow It Yourself and be successful! Written as a kind of "Boy Scout Manual" for those planning to return to the land!

Great 365 page book, dated 1972, that covers lots of ground in explaining everything from Building Your Soil to Building the Henhouse! From Raising Radishes to Honeybees to Goats for milk! From Planting to Harvest! From Birth, through Slaughtering, and how to Preserve the Bounty!

Thick book, written as a STEP-BY-STEP manual for anyone that raises their own food! If you have a hundred acres or even if you are just raising a garden in your yard and a few chickens or rabbits behind the house, this book will be of great value!

It describes RAISING SMALL LIVESTOCK in a personal manner that is easy to understand! It has a nice chapter on Goats where it describes Nubians~Saanens~Toggenburgs~French Alpines and what they need for housing~Equipment~Feeding~Breeding~Kidding~Kids and Weaning~Milking~Processing~Problems~Dehorning~Udder problems~Hooves~Parasites.......It covers each type of animal in equal amounts of detail! Chickens~Ducks~Geese~Swans~Turkeys~Pigs~Honeybees

It starts you off by explaining how to improve your soil and watershed...... How to build and Stock a Pond.... How to plant a patch of Woods on your Land.... How to organize your time on the farm..... How to rescue a tired apple Orchard or begin a new one....Ensure the longest yield of strawberries....Distinguishing helpful from harmful insects......Milk a Goat and dehorn a kid....Build a chicken brooder from an old washtub....or coldframes for young tender plants out of old basement windows.....Fatten a pig over the summer and smoke the hams in the winter....Grow rye and wheat for your own bread and noodles!

Raising Nut Trees......Growing Forage crops like Alfalfa, Clover and Grasses......Harvesting Hay and storing it up.....Growing berries like Blueberries, Currants, Gooseberries, Grapes, Huckleberries, Strawberries, Blackberries and more......Raising veggies like Asparagus, Beans, Broccoli, Beets, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Carrots, Chicory, Chives, Corn and Garlic, to Watermelon, Pumpkins, Squash, Sweet Potatoes and many more!

Learn to Kraut Cabbage~Make Goat Cheese~Prune Fruit Trees~Compost~Preserve Fruit, Vegetables and Meat~Plant and animal Disease~Animal Housing~ Sausage Making and so much more!!

This is a 365 page softcover book. Cover has some wear but book is in good condition. It is dated 1972 and measures 6.5" x 9.5"

Illustrations show are: Cultivating Equipment

Seeding...Composting...Propagating Strawberries

Cold Frames......Bugs......Harvesting small grain patches.....Goats

Goat milking....Hen nests...Chickens....and Pork

Portable Hog shed.....Honeybees.....Bee hives and Storing Fruit

Storing Root Crops....Pressing Cheese...Smoking Hams

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