Mouse Bait, Insulated Chicken Coop, Grow Potatoes, and Other Country Lore

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Thinking an insulated chicken coop would provided a warmer, happier home for their chickens, Pierette and C.J. Miller stapled plastic sheeting to the wall studs and filled the space with packing peanuts.
Thinking an insulated chicken coop would provided a warmer, happier home for their chickens, Pierette and C.J. Miller stapled plastic sheeting to the wall studs and filled the space with packing peanuts.
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Exterior of the insulated chicken coop.
Exterior of the insulated chicken coop.
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12 year old Scott Hixenbaugh, with the cows on his family's West Virginia farm, has a good handle on how to grow potatoes.
12 year old Scott Hixenbaugh, with the cows on his family's West Virginia farm, has a good handle on how to grow potatoes.
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Bake cupcake batter in ice cream cones. Viola! Ice cream cupcakes.
Bake cupcake batter in ice cream cones. Viola! Ice cream cupcakes.

The following housekeeping tips and other bits of country lore were submitted by readers.


Mouse Bait

If you’ve been
unsuccessful in trapping mice, try using cotton soaked in lard or bacon

  • Published on Aug 1, 1994
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