Basic Country Skills - Storey

Storey's Basic Country Skills
A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
by John and Martha Storey

Rediscover the Basic Skills of Country Life!

Whether it's making ice cream or sharpening an axe, cleaning a chimney or growing raspberries, you'll learn how to do it in this treasury of time-honored country wisdom. Illustrated step-by-step instructions will show you how to milk a cow, tap a maple tree, clean a fish, lead a horse, and build the best chicken coop.

You'll find out how to heat your house with wood or by the sun and how to de-skunk a country dog.

You'll learn the proper way to put in a water system, rewire an old house, stack a cord of wood, and grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

From Storey Publishing - 57 years of practical, timeless guides to country living.

"Yearning for a more self-reliant life?

You'll find the answers in this book."

- Mother Earth News

"Virtually everything a would-be country dweller needs to know is in this one volume, written by 150 authors, all experts in the areas they cover. After you've read it, you may decide that one copy is not enough for your country home - you may want one for the kitchen, the barn, the potting shed and tool shed."

Adirondack Chairs
Apple Trees
Auctions
Backyard Birds
Baking Bread
Basic Butchering
Beekeeping
Bent Willow Furniture
Birdhouses
Building Stone Walls
Bulbs
Butterflies
Canning
Cheesemaking
Christmas Trees
Cider Making
Composting
Daylilies
Deer Proofing
Dowsing
Fences
Flea Markets
Fruits and Berries
Furniture Repair
Home Water Supply
Homemade Root Beer
Horsekeeping
Livestock Health
Log Homes
Making Tab Curtains
Milk-Based Soaps
Mulching
Natural First Aid
Old-Fashioned Cleansers
Perennials
Pickling
Pole Building
Preserving the Harvest
Pruning
Pumpkins
Raising Rabbits
Raised-Bed Gardening
Renovating Old Houses
Root Cellaring
Rummaging
Sausage Making
Saving Seeds
Scarecrows
Small Barns & Sheds
Small-Scale Farming
Soil Improvement
Solar Energy
Stain & Spot Removing
Stenciling
Stonescaping
Succession Planting
Timber Frame Housing
Vertical Gardening
Veterinary Tips
Water Gardening
When To Harvest
Wide-Row Growing
Wildflowers
Woodburning

540 pages.