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Contents: Backyard Projects – A Weatherproof Deck (Decks are deceptively simple. Designing one to last ten years is a cinch, but building one to last five times that long requires you to think like an engineer. MOTHER just finished building a new deck at our cabin, and our story begins with a step-by-step plan for new construction, folled by a “footings to railings” guide on rehabilitating older decks); Natural Paths And Walkways (Every country place needs paths to order activity – from road to house, house to garden, garden to barn. John Vivian provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to make a roll-up boardwalk for mud season, and shows how to lay hard-surfaced pathways that last like a Roman roadway) MOTHER’s Wood Shop – The Rolling Router Table (David Camp prides himself on being able to build with just about anything, and begins our series of easy, inexpensive wood shop projects with plans for a movable cutting table that quickly became the handiest item in the shop) Garden And Yard – Practical Weed Control (Waging war on weeds is a waste of time. Spraying and herbiciding and pulling and cutting is not only no way to get through the summer – it’s not even very good for the garden. Mort Mather’s “ten-day rule” of weed control offers a simple, practical way to keep the invaders at bay); Make An Old-Time Strawberry Barrel (How to get the equivalent of a 25-foot garden row of strawberries on only four square feet of soil? Well, start with an old whiskey cask, do a little reinforcing, throw in some perforated pipe, and you’ve reinvented one of the oldest ways of getting the most berries for your buck) Energy & Envorinment – The Last Days Of The World’s Largest Windmill (Bill Young of Medicine Boy, Wyoming, watched in awe one morning as 100-mile-an-hour winds reduced the largest windmill in the world to a heap of debris. Alone and desperately underfunded, he is determined to get the mill back on-line and back to supplying electricity to nearly two thousand homes) Mother’s Natural Kitchen – Cherry Jubilee (Anne Vassal loves ripe Michigan cherries, and she has a lifetime’s experience knowing what to do with them. From cherry coffee cake to cherry chicken salad (that’s right), here are her favorite recipes of the season) Regular Columns – News From MOTHER (“If I had a hammer”); Dear MOTHER (Our readers debate everything from tractors to vegetarianism); Country Lore (Ten tips from readers on how to make it at home or solve it alone); Bits & Pieces (Is “spring water” really from springs, and are “free-range” animals really free?); Health On-Line (If you live in the sticks, one of the biggest virtues of plugging into the internet is that it may just save you a trip to the doctor); MOTHER’S Mechanic (Wrench turner Jon Gail Blair tells you what most mechanics won’t about how to keep your car out of the repair shop); Home Remedies (Ann of Sweet Annie’s Herb Store offers her small business philosophy and her favorite herbal remedies, with a step-by-step preparation guide); Seed Swap (The easiest way to get planting); Country Vet (Dr. Andrea Looney talks about synchronizing goats’ heat cycles and treating skin infections in just-sheared sheep); Last Laugh (Where’s the peace and quiet of country life?)
Issue: June – July 1996
Condition: Very Good