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Agricultural history threatens to be dull and tedious; hence this highly personal account of the adventures of the author from age 9 to 19 on a family farm in the Northeast. A series of vignettes describing chores and other farm work are interspersed with high humor, pranks and harsh physical effort.

The farm setting was the family home of aggricultural leader, economist and teacher, Howard E. Babcock, for years Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Ithaca's Cornell University. Introducing many new farm practices, he told readers of his popular page "Kernels, Screenings and Chaff," in the American Agriculturist magazine of new ways to manage grasslands, employ used auto tires to ease operation of farm equipment. He counseled them to buy open-formula farm feeds from the huge farm cooperative he organized and managed, The GLF (now Agway).

Babcock also introduced farmers and ultimately all consumers, to prepare and consume frozen farm produce and meats. Home freezers were one of the most important contributers to improved diet and life style not only of farmers, but all consumers.

Young John Babcock tells of shooting woodchucks and rats, tending livestock, and operating new farm machines that his dad started to promote in the midst of the Depression decade. After the 1933 Bank Holiday, loan rates fell to the lowest in many years.

Life was hard, but this farm family never missed a meal, nor the chance to enjoy life to its fullest in an era marked by sweeping change. I submit it as a high spirited and readable account.

What a wonderful book, full of laughs that I will soon to relate to. As having just purchased some 30 acres and wanting to go the organic way. I was given this book to check out. It is full of funny little stories and interesting tips too. I am now looking for a copy of this book for myself for when the ruff days of winter come to me too. The back cover of this book says,
In 1988 Paul Heiney decided to become a farmer, the type who puts his faith in horses, a hand-plough and well-ripened muck...
Thanks Paul for keeping your Diary, I will now start mine...cheers Liz and happy reading.

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This is a unique text that treats economic time series forecasting with emphasis on the recent advances in econometric theory such as cointegration as well as other practical strategies such as combination forecasts. Usual text books do not have the breadth of coverage this one attempts, successfully, to achieve. In short, this one text replaces many books and papers on one's shelf.

The book is up-to-date and advanced where materials cannot be found from some other general time series texts.