Anything excerpted from “The Briarpatch Book.”

Art D. Smith Dixon, Missouri

- livestock When someone begins trying to support himself on a subsistence farm, his first impulse is to acquire livestock. I believe that is a mistake. Because as soon as you get the animal home you are immediately faced with the multiple problems of feed, feed storage, shelter, and control…

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Delmer O. Gasche Morenci, Michigan

-people index The Whole Earth Catalog provided access to tools and was very successful. Now picture this: a catalog, maybe as large as the Last Whole Earth, but with names, addresses, telephone numbers of people. Okay? A very special telephone and address book. A telephone and address book providing access…

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