Small Farmer's Journal

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COM: Kaunteya (das) JPS (Mayapur - IN) wrote:

 

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> The "Mother Earth" magazine is full of useful information on

> self-sufficiency, especially the issues between 1970 and 1985.

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> Is anyone having those issues (or part of it)? We would like to get them for

> our library in Mayapur.

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> your servant, Kaunteya das

 

Small Farmer's Journal: featuring practical horse farming, is another great

classic farming magazine with lots of stuff on animal powered equipment. Also,

they nearly always have an article about ox power. Here the subscription

information:

 

1 year (4 issues, about 125 pages each) $24.00 in the U.S., $31.00

all other countries (must be in U.S. funds)

 

Small Farmer's Journal

P.O. Box 1627

Sisters, Oregon 97759 U.S.A.

 

phone: 541-549-4403

fax: 541-549-2064

 

(They accept the usual credit cards.)

 

Here are a few articles from the Winter 1999 issue:

 

Horse Plowing Down Under

Farming without Plough

Sheep Barn Equipjment

Swiveling Ox Yoke

Spoke Extractor

Hewavy Duty Belly Dump Wagon

Sheels & More Wheels

Making Garden Cart Wheels

 

Genetically Engineered Plants Backfire

Crop Rotation

Shlelterbelts

Tomato Culture

The Versatile Garden Pea

 

Salt Your Horse

Temperment and the Teamster

24 Years of 4-H Working Steers {this is about kids doing ox power}

Ask a Teamster

 

Thoughts on Plumbing

Combination Barn/Sheds

Covered Manure Shed

 

Organic Acres Increasing in Iowa

Fertility Farming/ part one (reprint of classic by Newman Turner)

Organic Dairying Works

 

Plus an editorial on Y2K by editor Lynn Miller, including:

 

"We cannot tell you what to do. We, however, do presume to repeat our

suggestion that mankind is better served by an agrarian social model. It is

discussions such as this year 2000 mess which reinforce the suggestion.

 

"We need billions of small family farms spread out across the entire populated

world. Farms which are the fabric of millions of small communities

interlocking

into regions of great self-sufficiency and overall health. With food and

housing and warmth for everybody.

 

"There is enough for everybody. The notion of scarcity is important to the

economic axiom of supply and demand key to the opportunity for obscene profit

and corporate control...

 

"Ah, but then, the year 2000 bug may well destroy the assets of our

billionaires

and all in the wink of a computer chip. While the struggling farm families in

Bangladesh or Argentina, or Mississippi will turn the crank to make their

butter

and scratch the earth before planting their seeds and pray to God for timely

rains, just as they have forever...

 

"The best farming is a prayer in construct -- a working full-time thankfulness

-- an acknowledgement -- a blessing way."

 

 

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On one hand, they have not been trained in Krsna consciousness, and there are a

number of their practices which we do not agree with, but obviously they are

also pre-disposed toward a devotional attitude and have a lot of useful

information that we could use.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi