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Pole Building Construction * If you want to save money * If you want to build it yourself, but lack experience. * For small buildings, barns, cottages and camps, even homes. This one-of-a-kind book will save you money, labor, time, and materials in building a small home, barn, or other structure. Involves limited grading, no excavation for a foundation, use of sites unsuited for other types of buildings, good wind resistance, and fewer materials. You can build it yourself with this book, illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs. Construction techniques are carefully explained. This book will make pole building construction THE answer to your building needs. Plans for * Year-round houses * Vacation homes * Garage and tool shed * Woodshed * Solar cottage * Small pole barn * Storage shed

If you want to save time and money, or make your life easier and more productive, look through this book. We believe you will find something that will be easy for you to build, even with only hand tools and limited experience. Here are some of those ideas: -- Fireplace front, to conserve heat. -- Root cellar, to store those valuable vegetables through the winter. -- Fences, gates, stiles -- even a turnstile. -- Animal shelters -- from birds to horses. -- Window greenhouse. -- Inexpensive solar drier. -- And dozens of small, useful items, such as stove wood containers, a macrame hanger, tool storage units, and seed containers.

This is the basic book -- yet with all the essential details -- for the family that decides to keep a cow for all the benefits she can provide. Learn first the costs, the gains, what she gives and takes. There are practical, fully illustrated chapters that include: - The history and behavior of the cow.- Nutritional needs, from grass to milk.- Buying a cow -- the sources, breeds and factors to consider.- Handling techniques, housing and fencing.- Feeds and feeding -- cow and calf.- Milking and uses of milk.- Health and diseases, breeding and calving.- Growing feed crops, use of manure.The Family Cow is complete with data charts and tables, a glossary of agricultural terms, and source lists of books and equipment.

Offers insight and knowledge in more than 450 enlightening straight-from-the-set definitions. This book presents advice on film making do's and don'ts in a handful of longer essays on everything from dealing with a difficult actor to movie making in the digital age. It is suitable for those who's passionate about film.