Issue #59 September/October 1999

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DEPARTMENTS

6  Note from the publisher 7  Editorial:   Should both drugs and guns be legal? 60  Irreverent joke page 46  Book Review 55   Ayoob on firearms:     “Best buy” Backwoods .45 79   Letters 67   Poem 47   BHM books 98   Classified ads (pdf) 98  Classified advertising form 97  Subscription Info      Order form or call Toll Free 1-800--835-2418

ABOUT THE COVER       The painting on the cover is based on the photograph of the house supplied by Michael Hackleman on page 73 in his water article. The original house was built by Steve Heckeroth and is a townhouse with a tower incorporated into it. On the cover, we show a telescope, so the platform serves as an observatory. But in Heckeroth’s design the platform was meant to hold a water tank, a wind machine, or both.

FEATURES

Self-Sufficiency 8    Start your food storage on $10 a week    By Alan T. Hagan       Alan Hagan provides a common sense approach to starting a food storage program on a shoestring budget. He demonstrates how a smart shopper, with little money, can accumulate a handsome store of food in a reasonable amount of time. 18    Seven common medicinal plants    By Marcella Shaffer 30    Raise tobacco for trade or barter in hard times    By Rev. J.D. Hooker 34    Making maple syrup    By Marcella Shaffer 57    Roughing it with plastic trash bags     By Christopher Nyerges 70    The Water System, Part 2: Tanks and Pumps    By Michael Hackleman       This is the second installment of Michael Hackleman’s three-part series on water. In this issue he explores tanks and pumps that can be incorporated into a self-sufficient water system. Recipes 22    Cooking from food storage with rice    By Richard Blunt       Richard Blunt provides four great rice recipes as he traces the history on one of the oldest—and certainly the most widely cultivated—foods known to man. 36    The solar bakery—quickbreads and cakes    By Jennifer Stein Barker Homeschooling 40    Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself    By George Stancliffe       You can teach your children to speed read without knowing how to speed read yourself. George Stancliffe provides step-by-step instructions that can turn your kid into a reading superstar. Farm and Garden 15    Leaf it to old Mother Nature    By Jim Mcpherson 16    Harvesting and freezing apples    By Tom R. Kovach 53    Blanching vegetables    By Tom R. Kovach 62    Waising wascally wabbits for din-dins    By Don Fallick Country Living 14    A house for an outdoor dog    By Tom R. Kovach Building 85    A salvaged oak floor for $5    By Robert L. Williams

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