Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Rush Limbaugh — champion of "the Right"

Just for kids:
    Kid's Funny Drawing Contest

Product reviews

Recipes:
    21 Pastabilities

Original poems:
   John Silveira
   Cathleen Thomsen
   Larry Cuthbert

Magazine/Book Reviews
   Back to Basics
   More-With-Less Cookbook
   Rodale's Garden Problem Solver
   The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value
   Vanishing American Outhouse
   The Voluntyrist
   The Homebuilt Dynamo
   Home Sweet Home

Contents

Building

• Save a bundle of money by building your home yourself
• Wood-Mizer to the rescue

Alternative energy

• A solution to the problem of transmitting solar electricity long distance
• Armech solar suspends operations

Electric vehicles

• Electric cars of the 1990's — small companies lead the way, but the "big three" have entered the race

Country living

• As a versatile country tool the shotgun is hard to beat
• Finding Mr. (or Mrs) Right when you're in the backwoods
• Nursing: perfect country career
• Rodents and raptors — a natural balance
• A kestral in the coop
• The old time spring house

Self sufficiency/Money

• A baker's doen of uncommon uses for common substances
• Getting into desk-top publishing without blowing your budget
• How to draw up a contract without having to pay a lawyer

Farm/Garden

• Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens! Part I
• Great Pyrenees — a one-of-a-kind guardian of stock
• Growing trees can pay off with some big dividends but it takes careful planning, planting and hard work
• Fall in the herb garden

Health/Environment

• Country living health hints for children
• Make your own safe baking powder

Old days

• A walk down Memeory Lane through the amazing World Series of the past
• Old tin cans tell the real story of how pioneers tamed the West
• How to make your own stereo cards