Encyclopedia of Practical Farm Knowledge

I uploaded the encyclopedia as a PDF to Archive.org so they were able to make it readable online. I embedded it on the wiki page for this tool.

• RJ

Hope this information helps people

Using the GitHub for writers manual I've been working on, I'll try my hand at getting this massive Microsoft Word document into a plaintext format that will be presented nicely on GitHub. I'll format it using the Markdown syntax that we use on our wikis here on FarmHack.net.

This approach has the following advantages...

Here are a couple links through our friends at low and no-tech magazine http://www.notechmagazine.com/farming/

The Agricultural Building and Equipment Plan List

"The University of Tennessee Extension maintains a collection of over 300 building and equipment plans, and all are now available in electronic format for download. The plans are primarily intended for use in Tennessee, but many are appropriate for other locations as well. http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/extpubs/planlist97.htm

HOW TO LOCATE ARTICLE TEXT AND CREATE A NEW WIKI This forum it to discuss the process of first transferring all of the text from the original document and then the process of editing and updating the text and adding new articles.

Original digitized text can be found at -

https://archive.org/details/Farm1 - The files are large so they will take a while to open on most computers. The text formatting is also not always accurate due to the text recognition software.