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ory on which subsistence homesteading must be 

 based. 



My need is less for works in the lofty realm 

 of speculation than for those that expound the 

 plain facts and procedures of production for home 

 use. Yet a book like the Shuttle-Craft Book of 

 American Hand-Weaving is of small use to me, as 

 long as there is no book, pamphlet, or correspond- 

 ence course to tell me what to do with my raw 

 wool to fit it for spinning. Of all the crop the 

 two that have given me most are Gove Hambidge's 

 Your Meals and Your Money, and Clarence Kep- 

 hart's Camping and Woodcraft. Mr. Kephart spent 

 two years in the Google, or Great Smoky, country, 

 where life presumably still goes on much as it 

 did in colonial times. His suggestions and direc- 

 tions are always practical. Yet too often they are 

 patently outmoded. What I want to return to my 

 muttons is not someone to teach me how to oper- 

 ate an old-fashioned spinning wheel, but someone 

 who, like Mr. Ham of Bridgeport, will design and 

 build me a motor-driven hand-spinning machine 

 that will turn out ten times more and better yarn 

 than the old-style treadle wheel. A farm like mine 

 cries for a myriad such machines: household sizes 

 of modern factory machinery. 



There is one other source of information that, 

 knowing the insensibility of scoffers, I hesitate to 



