Text COM:2063895 (99 lines)
From: Hare
Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)
Date:
28-Jan-99 23:33
To: Cow
(Protection and related issues) [3008]
Cc:
Apocalypse 1999? (Are you ready?) [455]
Reference: Text COM:2047899 by Kaunteya (das) JPS
(Mayapur - IN)
Subject: Small
Farmer's Journal
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COM: Kaunteya (das) JPS (Mayapur - IN) wrote:
> [Text 2047899 from COM]
>
> The "Mother Earth" magazine is full of
useful information on
> self-sufficiency, especially the issues between 1970
and 1985.
>
> Is anyone having those issues (or part of it)? We
would like to get them for
> our library in Mayapur.
>
> your servant, Kaunteya das
Small Farmer's Journal: featuring practical horse
farming, is another great
classic farming magazine with lots of stuff on animal
powered equipment. Also,
they nearly always have an article about ox power. Here the subscription
information:
1 year (4
issues, about 125 pages each) $24.00 in
the U.S., $31.00
all other countries (must be in U.S. funds)
Small Farmer's
Journal
P.O. Box 1627
Sisters,
Oregon 97759 U.S.A.
phone: 541-549-4403
fax: 541-549-2064
(They
accept the usual credit cards.)
Here are a few articles from the Winter 1999 issue:
Horse Plowing
Down Under
Farming without
Plough
Sheep Barn
Equipjment
Swiveling Ox
Yoke
Spoke Extractor
Hewavy Duty
Belly Dump Wagon
Sheels &
More Wheels
Making Garden
Cart Wheels
Genetically
Engineered Plants Backfire
Crop Rotation
Shlelterbelts
Tomato Culture
The Versatile
Garden Pea
Salt Your Horse
Temperment and
the Teamster
24 Years of 4-H
Working Steers {this is about kids
doing ox power}
Ask a Teamster
Thoughts on
Plumbing
Combination
Barn/Sheds
Covered Manure
Shed
Organic Acres
Increasing in Iowa
Fertility
Farming/ part one (reprint of classic by
Newman Turner)
Organic
Dairying Works
Plus an editorial on Y2K by editor Lynn Miller,
including:
"We cannot tell you what to do. We, however, do presume to repeat our
suggestion that mankind is better served by an agrarian
social model. It is
discussions such as this year 2000 mess which reinforce
the suggestion.
"We need billions of small family farms spread out
across the entire populated
world. Farms which
are the fabric of millions of small communities
interlocking
into regions of great self-sufficiency and overall
health. With food and
housing and warmth for everybody.
"There is enough for everybody. The notion of scarcity is important to the
economic axiom of supply and demand key to the
opportunity for obscene profit
and corporate control...
"Ah, but then, the year 2000 bug may well destroy
the assets of our
billionaires
and all in the wink of a computer chip. While the struggling farm families in
Bangladesh or Argentina, or Mississippi will turn the
crank to make their
butter
and scratch the earth before planting their seeds and
pray to God for timely
rains, just as they have forever...
"The best farming is a prayer in construct -- a
working full-time thankfulness
-- an acknowledgement -- a blessing way."
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On one hand, they have not been trained in Krsna
consciousness, and there are a
number of their practices which we do not agree with, but
obviously they are
also pre-disposed toward a devotional attitude and have a
lot of useful
information that we could use.
your servant,
Hare Krsna dasi
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