Promoting ecological awareness, this practical guide, richly illustrated, details how to achieve real country living and conveys the pleasures and benefits of small-scale, high-quality crop and livestock production. COUNTRY LIFE offers real-life options for people who yearn to be self-sufficient or who simply want a more fulfilling "house in the country". Over 700 illustrations.

Excerpt from Country Life Readers Second Book Adults who have just learned to read and write, and also those who have been re-awakened to the pursuit of knowledge should be immediately stimulated and encouraged to seek more know ledge. To this end the Second; Book of Country Life Readers has been prepared. Like the First, it was written chiefly for a rural people, and it therefore deals largely with problems of farm life. Thrift is its keynote and progress is its aim. While designed to be used by adults in the moonlight schools, this book is not unsuitable for adults in cities, for they need to become better acquainted with country life and its opportunities. It may also be used to advantage by children in both country and city schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.