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The forgotten arts : yesterday's techniques adapted to today's materials / by Richard M. Bacon.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating S501.2 .B3 1975
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacon, Richard M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Agriculture.
- Country life.
- New England.
- Home economics, Rural--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Home economics, Rural.
- Country life--New England--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- volumes <1-5> : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, N.H. : Yankee, 1975-<c1982>
- Contents:
- Book one. Managing the small woodlot
- Cooking on a wood stove
- Keeping a family cow
- Spring tonic: wild greens and how to fix them
- Keeping a small flock of chickens for home use
- Whole wheat bread from grain to loaf
- Raising and drying beans and corn
- Creating natural dyes from common plants
- Brewing apple cider and vinegar at home
- Making plain and fancy soap.
- Book two. Fireplace cookery
- Keeping sheep for meat, wool, and pleasure
- Digging and stoning a well
- How to build a smokehouse
- Coping with a whole pig
- Simple wooden toys that last
- Making paint from scratch
- Decorating a wall with old-fashioned stenciling
- How to make an apple-picking ladder
- Keeping geese, guinea hens, and peacocks.
- Book four. The chimney connection
- The community skating rink
- Drying fruits and vegetables
- The rural driveway
- Maple syrup from scratch
- Homemade ice cream
- reclaiming your garden soils
- Building bridges
- Flax to linen
- Herbal medicines: the garden apothecary.
- Book five. Weaving on a tape loom
- Reseating chairs with cane and rush
- How to care for quilts, old and new
- laying a slate roof
- The care and splicing of rope
- Clock repairs you can do yourself
- preserving meats and vegetables by salting, brining, and pickling
- Reclaiming and overgrown field
- Making a rope hammock.
- Notes:
- "From Yankee magazine."
- Book 4 edited by Edie Clark.
- Book 5- edited by Clarissa M. Silitch.
- Book 5- published by Yankee Books.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum has: v. 1-2, 4-5.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of George Batcheler.
- ISBN:
- 0911658653
- 9780911658651
- OCLC:
- 1733332
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