Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780760328620
- 0760328625
Description: 224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes: "*Including essential Country woman recipes."
Contents:
- Calving the heifers
- Chickens
- Pigs and pigging
- Spring farming and crop planting
- Starting the irrigation water
- Hired hands
- Planting the garden
- Spreading and harrowing
- Instant hired hand
- Branding
- Summer irrigation
- Haying
- How to keep cool while haying
- Moving the cows to summer pasture
- Veterinary care
- Garden maintenance
- Varmint control
- Summer company
- Canning, freezing, and "putting up" all that garden produce
- Summer fun
- Fall--when the year starts its downhill slide
- Roundup time and marketing the calves
- Getting in the wood for winter
- Cleaning the pig sheds (also done in spring)
- Art of opening gates
- Hunting season
- Winter and the layered look
- Feeding the critters
- Proper winter clothing
- Getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas food consumption
- Surviving the annual Christmas program at the schoolhouse
- Watching TV in winter (if you have TV)
- Waiting for spring
- Sheep and lambing
- Women work and woman activity
- Sleep
- Coffee, cookies, and daily meals
- Washing the separator
- Visitors
- Coping with the annual 4-H fair
- Yard-sale-ing : an addiction or a pleasant hobby?
- Sidekick savvy
- Ordering a custom-built country man
- Country mouse, city mouse
- Basic farm and ranch attitudes (a ranch is a ranch is a ranch is a farm is a farm is a farm-- ).
LCCN: 2006100836
Control Number: 164246
Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Voyageur Press, 2007.Subjects:
Genre: Handbooks and manuals.