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Features:

• Useful Genetic Modifications: Jerry Hicks has a humorous take on genetically modified tobacco and bees.
• Family Farming with Diversity: Anna Knapp-Peck’s farm in upstate New York has eveloved over the time she and her family moved in. She tells us of this evolution an how to grow and change as you evaluate your property, your goals and your life.
• Four More Miles!: Ronnie Hartman chronicles The Georgia Wagon Train’s 23rd year. The event is a 200 mile ride beginning in Tipton, Georgia, and ending in Calvary, Georgia, just in time for Mule Day.
• Bison Ranching: Karen Kirsch profiles an Ohio couple that decides to raise Bison organically, along with Tamworth pigs and Narragansett turkeys with a committement to breed conservancy.
• The Privileges of Harness Care: Jenifer Morrissey and Bernie Samson give a detailed lesson on harness care including inspection, routine cleaning, stuffing, thorough cleaning and reconditioning.
• Top Bar Bee Hives: Hazel Freeman outlines new method of beekeeping which is geared toward small, backyard beekeepers with the goal of increasing pollination.
• Grafting and Budding: Bethany Caskey’s how-to article is filled with tips and clear illustrations for grafting and budding. Whip, cleft, modified cleft, bark and side grafts explained as well as budding and chip budding.
• A Good Squirrel Dog: Jerry Hicks shares a memory of his dog, Old Red, and the dog’s enthusiasm for treeing squirrels.
• Oxen Understand How the Wind Blows: Oxen teamster Philip Henderson shares a story of how oxen behave during the dreadful Santa Ana winds.
• Comparing Cultivators:At the Animal-Powered Field Days in Vermont, Stephen Leslie and others demonstrate both new and old animal-powered cultivating tools. Includes individual reports on the Mellotte and Kockerling tool carriers as well as the Homesteader.
• Four-Legged Locomotives: Byron Lemmon explains that before steam power, railways were a horse-powered form of transportation. Used for people and freight, as well as extensive use in the switchyards, the use of animal power continued into the 1960s.