A Self Supporting Home

This special re-print edition of Kate V. Saint Maur's book "A Self Supporting Home" is a guide to homesteading and personal self reliance. Written in 1913, this classic text by one of the founders of the Back-To-The-Land movement, provides insight into how an individual and their family may become self reliant on a small parcel of land, as well as many common sense ideas on improving your livability by striving to be self reliant. Topics include selecting a farm, getting outbuildings into order, raising ducks for meat and eggs, raising pigeons for meat, rabbits for meat and fur, the family milk cow, growing mushrooms in cellars, bee keeping, guinea fowls for meat, Incubators and Chick Brooders, starting crops from seeds, setting hens, chickens for meat and eggs, turkeys and geese, apple trees, poultry ailments and their cure, growing vegetables and much, much more. Laid out as a month to month guide, this is one of the most thorough books of its kind that offers many self sufficiency ideas not found elsewhere. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.