Pens, inks and dyes were homemade
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about making quill pens and ink out of saw filings and vinegar for school back in the days when little was store bought.
Summing up summer
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes of crickets and katydids, gerbils and kittens, and a brand new clothes line.
Read it Again: Week of Aug.31, 2001
Each week Farm and Diary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug.31, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Dairy Channel: New Mexico dairyman creates niche by processing his own dairy products
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes about an unusual dairy entrepreneur who has made a place for himself with a 200-cow dairy by bottling and selling his own "Jersey Gold All Natural Milk."
Thanks for support
A 4-H exhibitor thanks the buyers of her steer who showed such kindness and generosity at a past Canfield Fair.
Larding needles weren’t for sewing
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about what some of the terms included in old cookbooks mean in terms of fireplace cooking.
The eight proposition intruder
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about her experience when a drunken driver drove headlong onto her brother's farm.
Read it Again: Week of Aug. 23, 2001.
Each week Farm and Diary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug. 23, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
