Above: Rural Heritage October – November 2024 Cover: Seven mules plow during field demonstrations at the 2024 Horse Progress Days in Gordonville, Penn.
Rural Heritage
is a bimonthly
journal in support of farming
and logging with draft horses,
mules, and oxen. The October– November 24
issue was mailed to subscribers on October 2,
2024. Below is this issue’s annotated Table of Contents, with a link to a full feature article to showcase the good reading delivered to your door every other month
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If, in your reading, you run across
a drafty word you don't recognize,
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Draft Dictionary.
Table of Contents
Departments
Publishers Post
Joe updates readers on some upcoming wagon rides, provides updates about the magazine and celebrates the 90th birthday his father, Bob Mischka, who founded our parent company Mischka Press.
Business Spotlight
We introduce readers to Abner Esh of Peach Lane Harness in Ronks, PA. They have been in business for 32 years and make asn sell harness from mini to draft horses.
Rural Bookshelf:
Rural Heritage reviews the children's book Oxette, written and illustrated by Lea Patrice Fales.
It is a story about a young cow wishing to become a working memeber of the farm on which she lives. Beautifully illlustrated.
Selections from our extensive catalog of books and videos
on draft animal farming, logging, self-sufficient living
and much more.
Associations and Breeders Directory
(contacts for breed registries and regional draft clubs)
(frequently updated online)
(please tell ‘em you saw it in Rural Heritage)
Features
On an old-style high wheel hay rake is not the place to be during a runaway.
Runaway Wreck - Part 1
Donn Hewes addresses ways that teamsters can deal with runaways and wrecks in part one of our series.
Ralph Rice on training a single horse - note the rein straps snug but with plenty of room at this stage to turn her head in either direction.
Single Horse Kindergarten − − − click on title to read this story in full.
Ralph Rice discusses starting his young horses single, then driving them in shafts before every putting them with an experienced teammate.
BZ Machinery cultimulcher on display at HPD
A View from Holmes County
Mary Ann recounts the highlights from this summer’s Horse Progress Days, held in Gordonville, Penn.
2024 Horse Progress Days: Equipment Demonstrations
Pictures and descriptions of equipment shown: Plows, Cultivators and Weeders, Harrows and Cultimulchers, Mowers and Conditioners, Tedders and Rakes, Bale Handling Implements, Manure Spreaders,
Jerry Hicks plowing with his team of mules at his Flemingsburg, Ky., farm.
Plowing
Jerry Hicks extols the virtues of using a walk-behind plow
2024 Horse Progress Days.
Don Bisbee from the rural hill town of Chesterfield, Mass., brought his son Carson’s oxen, Taco and Loki where they participated in the field demonstrations at HPD.
HPD International Meetings
Mary Ann Sherman introduces us to many of the visittors to HPD from all over the world and gives us a glimple into their contributions and take-aways.
HPD Seminars
Mary Ann Sherman reports on the seminars held at HPD including: Pest Free Crops, Homesteading, Orchards, Inspired Farming, Compost Humus, Einkorn Grain, Nutrient Dense Food, Draft Power Elsewhere
Farm Team Event
Frank Burkdoll reports from the 2024 Farm Team Competition held Lyndon, Kan.
In his excellent book, Implements for Farming with Horses, Sam Moore provided this illustration showing the plow parts disassembled.
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