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Don Childers painted this farm scene while visiting Dave and Ilene Duffy in Oregon this past fall. Everyone put their two cents in: We need a small child in Grandpa’s lap; that goat can be nibbling on his pants; how about a kid climbing up the haystack; that horse will be in the barn eating all the hay without a rope to keep her out.

6  Publisher’s Note

7  Editorial:
The Internet brings into the open the previously undiscussable

60  Ayoob on Firearms:
Handgun-caliber carbines

74  Ask Jackie:
Bread without electricity, canning meat, growing apricots, etc.

80  The gee-whiz! page

83  Irreverent joke page

84  Letters

85  The Last Word:
Things kids should learn before leaving high school — but don’t

88  Classified ads/Classified advertising form (pdf)

89  Advertiser Index

90-96  BHM anthologies & books

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24  Remove rust with electrolysis
By Randy Young

39  An easier way to cut firewood
By Larry LaVan

40  Improving a rural economy with legalized marijuana
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Building

20  How to install a steel roof
By Morgan Barker

54  Two good projects for excess rock
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78  Build ceiling boxes to save space
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Energy

70  An $89 backup generator
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Farm and garden

8  Awesome alliums
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson

15  A predator-proof chicken coop
By Mary Whalen

35  “Log cabin” garden beds
By Robert Van Putten

58  A kid-friendly chicken coop
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Food and recipes

28  Using the whole chicken
By Linda Gabris

Americana

66  Keeping clean on a pig farm in the 1940s
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