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Animals

Raising your own beef

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a poultry killing cone

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Claw Hammers

By R.E. Rawlinson Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle observed that “Man is a tool using animal … without tools he is nothing, with tools...

Build a graceful footbridge

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Make adobe bricks

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Naughty Peppers

Growing Productive Strawberries

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

The barnyard scramble

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

A Native American feast

Heart healthy recipes

Jamaican Beef Patties

Self-reliance

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Garden injuries

The joys of making soap

Survival firebuilding skills

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar suitcase

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Choose your ammo… police style

Picking a holster

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...