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Understanding Dairy Goat Production | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Understanding Dairy Goat Production. Goats are browsers, preferring the new growth of shrubs and the seed heads of grasses to the lower quality older growth in a pasture. They are able to select the most nutritious parts of plants, even from thornbushes and higher tree branches not reached by sheep, and can use a wide range of forage. For this reason, they are able to survive in areas where other livestock do not. 2 Better feeding and pasturing practices.
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Understanding Agroforestry Techniques | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Many of the techniques described in this paper are based on farming systems that have evolved to allow long-term sustainable production systems to take the place of shifting cultivation. Most can be used by anyone who wishes to make better use of trees and shrubs to restore or improve their land. The techniques have been drawn largely from VITA’s publication Reforestation in Arid Lands by Fred Weber and Carol Stoney. Becoming incorporated into the soil as o...
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Water Purification | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Water treatment under rural conditions should be restricted by the responsible control agency to cases where such treatment is necessary and where proper plant operation and maintenance is assured. Chlorine may be obtained in table form as “Sterotabs” formerly known as “Halazone”), “Chlor-dechlor” and “Hydrochlorazone,” which are obtainable on the market. Directions for use are on the packages. Mann, H.T. and Williamson, P. Water Treatment and S...Manual of...
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Understanding Poultry Meat and Egg Production | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Understanding Poultry Meat and Egg Production. Understanding Poultry Meat and Egg Production. Since ancient times, chickens, ducks, and geese have served farming communities by gleaning the fields of grain that otherwise would be lost; picking up grain that is dropped by the wayside in threshing, drying, and transportation; making productive. Small flocks of poultry–from a few birds to a few hundred–were the rule all around the world, until the ...Nutrition...
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Understanding Evaporative Cooling | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Since it is possible to cool trees, water bottles, and ourselves by this process shouldn’t it be possible to cool other things, such as food and dwellings? 1 temperatures are high;. 2 humidity is low;. 3 water can be spared for this use; and. 4 air movement is available (from wind or electric fans). This paper provides an introduction to the process of evaporative cooling. In addition, the natural limitations and problems associated with this process, a...
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Understanding solar food dryers | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Understanding solar food dryers. UNDERSTANDING SOLAR FOOD DRYERS. Dehydration, or drying, is a simple, low-cost way to preserve food that might otherwise spoil. Drying removes water and thus prevents fermentation or the growth of molds. It also slows the chemical changes that take place naturally in foods, as when fruit ripens. Surplus grain, vegetables, and fruit preserved by drying can be stored for future use. An enclosed cabinet-style solar dryer can pr...
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SOLAR CONVECTION GRAIN DRYER | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. SOLAR CONVECTION GRAIN DRYER. SOLAR CONVECTION GRAIN DRYER. Drums, petroleum, 55-gallon (7). Lumber, 61cm X 122cm (34 meters). Lumber, 30.48cm X 61cm (20 meters). Plywood, .95cm thick (12 square meters). Particle board (27 square meters). Aluminum, corrugated (72 square meters). Plastic film, 4 mil thick (72 square meters). Netting, mosquito (244 square cm). CONSTRUCTION OF THE DRYER. The surface of the collector is covered with a sheet of plastic film.
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Fish Oil and Fish Meal | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. Fish Oil and Fish Meal. This Industry Profile is one of a series briefly describing small or medium-sized industries. The. Profiles provide basic information for starting manufacturing plants in developing nations. Specifically, they provide general plant descriptions, financial, and technical factors for their. Operation, and sources of information and expertise. The series is intended to be useful in. Setting up a business. Engineering expertise. The ...
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Candle Making | Altoids Survival Kit
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The Best Survival Kit is the one you never use. In areas without electricity, lanterns, candles, and cooking hearths often provide the only source of light at night. Candles are easy to make at home for home use. With attention to quality control, they can be made in a small workshop for sale in the shops and markets. Paraffin wax (you may wish to experiment with bee’s wax if it is available). Candle wicking (the string inside the candle). Wire for the jig. Thermometer, in a brass case. Make the top of t...