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Cargando... How to Do Things, A Compendium of New and Practical Farm and Household Devices, Helps, Hints, Recipes, Formulas and Useful Information from the Farm Journalpor The Farm Journal
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. How To Do Things, published in 1919 by the Editors of The Farm Journal, overflows with rural wisdom and, as the title promises, "How To's" for life on the farm. Unlike contemporary DIY books, which often include detailed directions, recipes, etc., this book assumes a good bit of knowledge on the part of the reader. For example, one must know where to obtain "Paris green" and "Bordeaux" to mix up an effective fungicide for plants...probably helps also to know what these ingredients are! Also, in order to use many of the book's ideas, one would need help from one's blacksmith, one's seedsman, and one's milkman...among other obsolete professionals. However, the Editors' recommendations range across all aspects of farm life, including child-rearing, entertaining, cooking, home improvement, and on and on and on. The book offers a fascinating glimpse into agrarian life in America following World War I. And, despite the historical flavor of the text, I learned numerous useful skills: how to fit a cork into a bottle, how to make a twine holder out of a coconut, how to make cheese, how to make a charming kitchen apron, how to grow a woodbine fence, how to make a box kite, how to have a potato peeling contest, and how to make a newborn foal poop (which I may not have to practice any time soon). I love this book...my copy belonged to my father, and to his father before him. And both men definitely knew "How To Do Things." ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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