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Stories in this issue:

• Snow Scooping:  Tim Miller explains how he made a snow scoop and how he uses his horses for moving snow, as well as for many other jobs he used to do with tractors.
• Fertility Management in the Horse-Powered Market Garden: The first of Stephen Leslie’s three-part series presenting various prespectives on soil fertility management. Along with the author, five other horse-powered farmers present their perspectives onspreading wiht a single horse, excess nutrients, closed loop fertility system and fertility independence.
• Home Remedy: Bethany Caskey explores old home remedies: some that seem funny now, some that are scary and some that actually work.
• White Gold: Horseradish: Rob Bohlke shares his love of horseradish, including the history, site selection for planting, planting, harvesting and preparing.
• The Lippitt Morgan: Bethany Caskey gives a history of the Lippitt Morgan horse
• A $100 Ox Cart: Rob Collins provides a step-by-step instructions on building an ox cart to haul a half to a full cubic yard of material. Dimensions, drawings and other details included.
• Breaking Sleigh Trails: The temperature finally gets up to 12 degrees, so why not get those drifted-over sleigh trails groomed? Phillip Odden takes us on a ride with his Fjords and shows us what hard and rewarding work is.
• Old Washhouse: Ralph Rice leads us through the planning and construction of his “washhouse” where he butchers, prepares sausages, cleans and cans produce, cleans maple syrup equipment, honey bee “stuff,” and sometimes just has a hot cup of coffee in the winter.
• Work Ponies: Jenifer Morrissey introduces us to Stan “Cotton”Marley, who tells us why he uses draft ponies instead of big horses to do the work on his North Carolina farm.
• Carving a 12-inch Ox Yoke: Teamster Philip Henderson decides to take on the project of carving an ox yoke from a log. With the help of many, he succeeds and shares the ups and downs of the process.
• Reflections – Why I Choose Three: Ralph Rice enumerates the whys and hows of using three horses to do many farm projects. The uses and advantages of the added horsepower are great, especially if you already have that third horse.
• Weather and Folklore: Weather vanes, cow standing position, moisture in seaweed, cloud height, aching bones, sunrise/sunset colors, sound speed and jet contrail are some some examples of weather forecasting tools that Bethany Caskey reviews.
• The Wagon Wheel: Terry Moore goes over the parts of a wooden wheel, as well as how they are assembled.