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In 1974 an American household that kept bees had four white boxes on concrete blocks along a fencerow, facing southeast, with a windbreak behind them.
The equipment was…
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It Started After the First Hard Frost
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Nutting had a season and it was short. The nuts ripen on the tree, and then a hard frost…
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It Was a Wooden Tub With a Screw Through the Middle of It
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The press stood in a shed, a barn or under a tree, and…
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It Was a Machine on a Stand With Two Spouts
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It stood in a corner of the kitchen or in a room off it: a cast-iron…
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In 1964 a great many American farms still kept their milk cold in a small stone building down the hill, with a stream running through the floor of…
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In 1974 a great many American households had no gas main and no intention of getting one. They had a white steel tank on blocks in the yard,…