Departments

Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
   Happy birthday Communist Manifesto

Columns:

Ayoob on firearms:
   Part 1 -- Is this the ultimate backwoods home rifle?

Think of it this way:
   What's left, what's right? What's liberal, what's conservative?

Where I live:
   Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Book Reviews

Original poems:
   Sheryl L. Nelms

Irreverent jokes page

Contents

Building / Tools

• Convert dead space to closet space

Making a living

• The Cochranes boost their sales with humor
• Here's a business that's going to the dogs
• Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Farm / Garden

• Dehydrated watermelon -- for flavor explosions all year round
• How to make fruit picking easy
• No worrying about fire blight with Orient and Kieffer pears
• Grow and use hot peppers this year
• Consider these seven factors when selecting good alfalfa hay

Country living

• Kerosene lamps -- a bright idea

Crafts

• Make beautiful bandsaw boxes from scrap wood

Recipes

• Recipes from my mother's kitchen
• Cooking with hot peppers