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The Third Year Anthology
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Complete List of Articles
Current events
- Soviet nuclear weapons — what effect
on our rights if terrorists get them
Building/Tools
- There's nothing like metal roofing
- New homes from old homes
- The Toolbox — hammers & drills
- Some ideas for remodeling and living
from Catamount Farm
- Wow! Field-fabricated standing-seam
metal roofing
- Heat your upstairs by cutting holes
in the floor
- Straw bale houses — an alternative
- Foundations — from pole to slab
- Make a colonial shoulder yoke
- Build a shaving horse
- The house that a tornado helped
build
- Roughcut — a cut above
- Selecting the right heating system
- Don't spend a lot of money for your
house windows
- How to build an inexpensive cellar
that works
- Moving houses — good bargains for
backwoods living
- Rope as a tool — as versatile as
ever
- The case against modular housing
Americana/Life
- Reliving "The American West" at the
Hart Canyon Rendezvous
- Why does the year begin in January?
- Remembering the magic of mother's
kitchen
- Riving shingles for your roof the
old fashioned way
- The Electoral College — how we elect
the President
Americana/Travel
- The genius of John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson and America's "Declaration of Independence"
- Driving the Alaska Highway for it's
50th birthday in 1992
Alternative energy
- How an inverter fits into your solar
electric system
- Charging RV batteries with the sun
- Marrying solar thermal and
photovoltaics to create a hot water system
- Photovoltaics in Arkansas'
Meadowcreek community help make its self reliant ideas a model for
the future
- Waterpower for personal use
- Design calculations for no-head,
low-head waterwheels
- Grounding and lightning protection
for solar electric power systems
- Design calculations for overshot
waterwheels
Self sufficiency/Money/Guns/Jobs
- Some tips on drying foods at home
- Learning to shoot safely,
effectively
- Opportunity is knocking for the
country parson
- Clean up with house cleaning
- How to homebrew beer
- Now that you have your little slice
of heaven, how to pay for it
- An overview of centerfire rifles
- Creating your own life at home
without special tools
- Getting more cash from your crafts
- Growing Christmas trees — a
year-round part-time business
- Parakeets for cash
- Family works together at successful
home-based business
- Walking that last mile with a loved
one — a guide to caring for your dead
- Understanding ammunition will make
your working guns more useful
- Amateur radio — a sensible
communication alternative for the self-reliant
- New rules for ham radio license
- Miles per gallon vs. miles per hour
— things to consider when buying a car
- Tips to make your car go 150,000
miles
- Work at home as a paramedical
examiner
- Farming crayfish for a living — the
demand exceeds the supply
- Starting a home video business
- "Use it up, wear it out; make do or
do without!"
- Low overhead, sense of humor &
personal touch are key ingredients to running a good small business
- Accessories can make shooting safer,
more productive
- Women, self-defense and the 20-guage
shotgun
- The sensible way to store and use
food
- The magic of home canning
- A saddle shop created self
sufficiency for Idaho family
- Hand loading your ammo is far
cheaper than buying it
- Social conditioning, women and
self-defense
- Medical transcription — a recession
proof career
- Moonlight and newspapers
- Selling chickens to an ethnic market
- Want the kids to learn shooting? Try
Whittington!
Garden/Farm
- A hydroponic greenhouse
- Butchering, cleaning and cooking
chickens
- Seed starting the easy way
- The bonus of blackberries
- The all purpose power food —
soybeans!
- Good farm management puts money in
your pocket
- Using your stockman's eye to care
for your livestock
- Finding, growing and eating Asian
mustards
- A drip irrigation primer
- They may be old but they work — a
solar food dryer
- Rabbit diseases and how to cope with
them
- Self sufficiency and non-hybrid
seeds
Country living/Crafts
- A road kill could kill you too!
- Creating with saltdough
- A woman's backwoods philosophy
- Marvels in small packages
- Greechie, the hummingbird
- Fire ants on the march in the U.S.
- Cooking with woodstoves
- Preparing yourself for springtime
floods
- Make a crazy quilt
- Teach your kids the fun, safe way to
split kindling
- Moving "back to the land" and making
it work
- Looking for love in rural places
- Here's a new way to remove a fish
hook
- Some thoughts on growing older in
the backwoods
- Give a country kid a camera
- How to get started in blacksmithing
- Life of the "prairie tenor"
- The Australian shepard — a dog with
brains and loyalty
- Making a great rug from the rag bag
- Here's a handy chart to help predict
your local weather
Health/Environment
- Animal lifesavers — CPR & comfrey
- Carob — the chocolate alternative
- Home remedies
- The wolves of Mission: Wolf
- National Health Care — will it work
in the U.S.?
- Searching for the right American
health care plan — Is the Medical Care Savings Account the answer?
- Ingredients for an herbal first aid
kit
Interview
- An interview with Andre Marrou,
Libertarian candidate for President
Editorial
- "There's no stopping term limits"
- Recession and AIDS
- New World Order
- The black man's worst enemy is not
racism
- Media juveniles and BIg Government
- Rewriting the Bill of Rights
Just for kids
- Logic puzzles
- Life in a rotten log
- Why I like living in the country
- Feather your vest
- Why I like living in the country
- A short possum tail (tale?)
Magazine/Book Reviews
Profile
- Michael Andy Darr
- Ron Pruitt
- Bill Meyers and guerilla videos
- Headwaters homestead: Backwoods
living in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
- One woman's self-sustaining
grassland livestock farm
Recipes
- Good food for hard times
- International ways with chicken
- Pie recipes
- Quick breads for summer
- Uncommon wines — another way to save
the harvest
- Do-it-yourself "take-out" food
- Packable salads
- My best winter meals
- Healthy holiday baking
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