Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    "Just Once in a Lifetime, Group of 100"

Just for kids:
    Logic puzzles

Recipes:
   Holiday goodies for people with allergies

Original poems:
   John Earl Silveira
   Larry Cuthbert

Magazine/Book Reviews
   How to Buy Land Cheap
   Forget the Gas Pumps — Make Your Own Fuel
   Great Hideouts of the West
   The Family Cow
   Home Chiropractic video
   Countryside and Small Stock Journal
   Insight on the News

Product review:
   Vita-Mixer

Contents

Building

• Make your own rooter rotor
• Log building school in woods offers hands-on training
• A house-heating solar greenhouse

Americana

• Bicentennial of the "Bill of Rights" — would we pay the price again?

Alternative energy

• The sunless, windless, waterless alternative energy system
• Solar cells power historic ranches off California Coast

Country living/Crafts

• The .22 — another useful firearm for country living
• Instant scarflace

Self sufficiency/Money

• A good plan to help you achieve financial independence
• Let common sense, your taste buds guide you to storing food at home
• Physician Assistant — a country career with opportunities galore
• Getting started in the firewood business
• Sources of firewood
• Feed seven on under $300 a month

Farm/Garden

• How to raise rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits
• Self-seeding herbs add random fragrance, beauty to your vegetable garden
• For battling ants or growing earthworms, try coffee grounds
• Salt blueberries to preserve them
• Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens (Part II)

Health/Environment

• Stopping the diet-go-round
• Holiday goodies for people with allergies