2025 June/July
Rural Heritage is a bimonthly journal in support of farming and logging with draft horses, mules, and oxen. The 2025 February/March issue was mailed to subscribers on Jan 24, 2025. Below is this issue’s annotated Table of Contents, with a link to a full feature article to showcase the good reading delivered to your door every other month when you
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Table of Contents
Departments
Joe Mischka pays tribute to his father and announces his passing on April 13, 2025. Joe also discusses the major enhancements being made to the digital edition of the magazine.
Vintage photos of rural life by renowned photographer JC Allen including photos of teams of horses and mules cultivating checked corn.
We visit with Steve Haste during his Teamster Driving Clinic in Liberty,Ky., March 3, 2025, and learn about his business matching customers with draft horse and mule teams.
(contacts for breed registries and regional draft clubs)
(frequently updated online)
(please tell ‘em you saw it in Rural Heritage)
Features
Bob’s new forecast features a removable toolbar, logging winch, pole and cart shafts.
Bob’s New Forecart
Bob Erickson shows the new forecart he designed and built which offers a plethora of interesting features.
Timber Frame Barn…click on title to read entire article.
We visit Sautee Nacoochee, Ga., to watch an Amish team plus local master carpenters erected a timber-framed barn for Scott Hancock.
A Dozen Lessons Learned From an Old Timer
Jacqueline Courteau recounts many of the lessons she learned from her father, Dick Courteau. Illustrations by Maeve Courteau.
What an Affair!
Ralph Rice describes the North American Suffolk Horse Association’s presentation at the Equine Affaire held at the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
Connie Rice staffs the Suffolk booth at the Equine Affaire.
Cowboy’s Last Ride
Larry Jollisant drives a four-up of mules put to an 8-wheel covered Lindsey log wagon 255 miles from Plantersville to Bandera, Texas.
Larry’s hitch of mules finishes its 2-week ride in Bandera, Texas.
Tales from Carter County — The Mares Part 1
Westport Carriage Museum
Valerie Kirkwood takes us on a tour of this museum which displays horse drawn vehicles including carts, carriages, surreys, sleighs, hearses, cutters and much more.
Palouse Empire Planting
John Overmeyer spreads fertilizes with his four abreast of gray mules.
Big Sky Draft Horse Expo
Mower/Cultivator Rendezvous
Donn Hewes hosts a gathering of farmers and teamsters to go over the finer points of rebuilding and restoring sickle bar mowers and two-row cultivators.
Disposition and Heart
Mark Speed of Ford, Wash., spreads manure at the Julian farm in Medford, Wis.
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