Country Lore: Break in a Broom, Clean the Chicken Coop, Perfect Tomato Soup and More

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Use a rubber band to keep nipples in place when bottle-feeding baby sheep or goats.
Use a rubber band to keep nipples in place when bottle-feeding baby sheep or goats.
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Tips and tricks to make the homesteading life easier.
Tips and tricks to make the homesteading life easier.
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Make a quick rain bonnet from a feed sack.
Make a quick rain bonnet from a feed sack.

If every one of today’s homesteading families has learned as much from their rural neighbors as we have from ours . . . then there must be–buried just beneath the surface of MOTHER-land–a whole mine of country lore that should be shared.

You know the kind of information I mean: those little, practical down-home, time tested solutions for minor problems. Solutions that somehow never get included in textbooks or written up into articles . . . yet which you and I use every day simply because they work.

Here, for starters, are a few gleanings from the Bubel tribe’s collection of rural wisdom (wisdom which we, for the most part, have winnowed from the much larger storehouse of native horse sense that our friends, relatives, and acquaintances regularly draw upon).

You’ll notice that the larger percentage of the following tips and hints can be implemented with nothing more exotic than common, everyday farm findings . . . such as baskets, feed bags, or vinegar. So–if you’d rather fix or improvise what you need, rather than order a “for cash ” replacement or make an expensive trip to the store–check in with its here at the Country Lore Column from time to time.

You’re our kind of people!

  • Published on May 1, 1976
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