The New Horse Powered Farm

Author : Stephen Leslie
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584161
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Horse-Powered Farm written by Stephen Leslie and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Horse-Powered Farm is the first book of its kind, offering wisdom and techniques for using horse power on the small farm or homestead. It sets the stage for incorporating draft power on the farm by presenting necessary information for experienced and novice teamsters alike, including getting started with workhorses; the merits of different draft breeds; various training systems for the horse and teamster; haying with horses, seeding crops, and raising small grains; in-depth coverage of tools and systems; and managing a woodlot, farm economics, education, agritourism, and more. It's a must-have resource for any farmer, homesteader, or teamster seeking to work with draft power in a closed-loop farming system.

Author : Stephen Leslie
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160358613X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century written by Stephen Leslie and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the numbers of adherents to this way of life grow, ecologically minded farmers in their fields are developing efficient horse-drawn systems, and equipment manufacturers in small shops all across North America and Europe are coming forth with new innovations in ground-drive technology that have us poised on the cusp of another agricultural revolution—with working horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen at the heart of it. --Publisher

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205366
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horse-Drawn Days written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local cheese factory, and pulling the family buggy to church each Sunday, these animals were at the center of farm life, cementing the bond between human and horse. Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses captures stories of rural life at a time when a team of horses was a vital part of the farm family. Author Jerry Apps pairs lively historic narrative with reminiscences about his boyhood on the family farm in Wisconsin to paint a vivid picture of a bygone time. Featuring fascinating historic photos, ads, and posters, plus contemporary color photos of working horses today, Horse-Drawn Days evokes the majesty of these animals and illuminates the horse’s role in our country’s early history and our rural heritage.

Author : W. R. Runyan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595152465
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying Horse-Drawn Farm Implements written by W. R. Runyan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the identification of old farm equipment has been assembled to help those who have grown up since the horse-to-tractor farming conversion identify the myriad of horse-powered farm implements still to be found. The identification process is simple and quick, and is based on the presence or absence of such readily recognizable features as wheels and teeth. Photographs and identifying features of essentially all of the types of equipment used in the United States during the early part of the twentieth century are included.

Author : Lynn R. Miller
Publisher : Small Farmer's Journal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work Horse Handbook written by Lynn R. Miller and published by Small Farmer's Journal. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Farmer's Journal is after a new view of involvement, ownership, craftsmanship, and the understandable/mysterious seeds of magic. They also seek the craft of good farming and the faith that comes of thankful farming. Small Farmer's Journal wants to be defenders and agents of and for good farming and they realize that they are a small endeavor with small consequences. Work Horse Handbook has become a classic and the standard reference. This popular, highly regarded text is filled with current information and hundreds of photographs and drawings. It is a sensitive and intelligent examination of the craft of the teamster. From care and feeding through hitching and driving, every aspect is covered. Find out for yourself why this book is considered by thousands of people to be the volume on working horses in harness.

Author : Ann Norton GREENE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037901
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horses at Work written by Ann Norton GREENE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greene argues for recognition of horses’ critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and a new understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers.

Author : Lynn R. Miller
Publisher : Davila Art & Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885210173
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haying with Horses written by Lynn R. Miller and published by Davila Art & Books. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive manual on how to make hay employing true horsepower with ground-drive implements. Includes procedures, operation and care of equipment, animal power concerns, and farming variables. Over 1,000 illustrations. One volume of the Work Horse Library by Lynn R. Miller.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233003238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Horsemen written by Charles Bowden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social sciences.

Author : Kristin Kimball
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551611
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dirty Life written by Kristin Kimball and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.

Author : Janet Jones
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
ISBN 13 : 1646010272
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horse Brain, Human Brain written by Janet Jones and published by Trafalgar Square Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening game-changer of a book that sheds new light on how horses learn, think, perceive, and perform, and explains how to work with the horse’s brain instead of against it. In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human and horse perspectives. Throughout, true stories of horses and handlers attempting to understand each other—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—help to illustrate the principles. Horsemanship of every kind depends on mutual interaction between equine and human brains. When we understand the function of both, we can learn to communicate with horses on their terms instead of ours. By meeting horses halfway, we achieve many goals. We improve performance. We save valuable training time. We develop much deeper bonds with our horses. We handle them with insight and kindness instead of force or command. We comprehend their misbehavior in ways that allow solutions. We reduce the human mistakes we often make while working with them. Instead of working against the horse’s brain, expecting him to function in unnatural and counterproductive ways, this book provides the information needed to ride with the horse’s brain. Each principle is applied to real everyday issues in the arena or on the trail, often illustrated with true stories from the author’s horse training experience. Horse Brain, Human Brain offers revolutionary ideas that should be considered by anyone who works with horses.