Description

Features:

• Publisher’s Post: Joe Mischka recounts the history of his family farm in Whitewater, Wis., and talks about changes to Rural Heritage since he purchased it in 2007.
• Log Arch Design: Donn Hewes talks about the usefulness of logging arches and details his own design. Primarily, his differs in where he places his chain hooks and wheel spindles.
• Business Spotlight — Heritage Manufacturing: The story of George and Lucy Gawinowski of Annville, Ky., and how they brought the French “Kissine,” an implement that can accommodate a variety of attachments, to the United States.
• Interseeding Potatoes: by Anne and Eric Nordell. The Nordells detail the lessons learned and benefits of interceding their vegetable crops with living mulch. Through trial and error, they hit upon using a mix of cereal rye and sorghum-sudangrass for their potatoes.
• The Oxen Univerisity: Rob Collins launches a regular column discussing the work of Tillers International, based in Scotts, Mich. One aspect of the organization is to offer a wide variety of classes in heritage skills and homesteading.
• Live and Let Live: Karen Kirsch describes her efforts to humanely deal with some unwanted houseguests.
• Tales from Carter County — The Dead Calf: Jerry Hicks recounts the time he tried to help a novice homesteader who wanted to acquire a milk cow, which lead to the need for a calf, which lead to more and more problems when she failed to heed his advice
• Understanding Homesteading: While speaking at homesteading conference, Ralph Rice, realizes the need for experienced homesteaders, draft animal farmers and more to reach out to people new to this lifestyle who are hungry for information and guidance.
• Feeds for the Horse: Reprinted from Feeds and Feeding, a Handbook for the Student Stockman, by W.A. Henry, former dean of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 1911. The article provides details of extensive research conducted by various agricultural stations across the country on feeds for horses, including comparisons between a variety of grains.
• Luck o’ the Draw: Frequent contributor Dick Courteau provides fictional short story that captures the hardscrabble life on the rodeo circuit.
• The Dirty Job of Plowing: Ralph Rice discusses why and how he plows. He describes methods to prevent erosion, including contouring and planting a nurse crop.