I also discovered that my slapdash homemade box had to have a drip catching pan beneath it.
Homemade is inevitably more efficient, less costly, and better quality than anything mass-produced.
The Fertilizing Value of Compost It is not possible for me to tell you how well your own homemade compost will fertilize plants.
Building Your Own Bin Probably the besthomemade composting design is the multiple bin system where separate compartments facilitate continuous decomposition.
Compared to the fertilizer you would have purchased in its place, any homemade compost will be a financial gain unless you buy expensive motor-powered grinding equipment to produce only small quantities.
A rusty tincup lay on the floor beside a powder can that had been used for a bucket, while just inside the south door stood a comical homemade shakedown.
A little farther up the canyon they found traces of an old placer sluice, and what remained of some of the old, homemade cradles for panning out the gold.
There was a slow ticking clock up on a high shelf; near the door stood a homemade wash-stand with a tin basin, and above it hung a long narrow mirror.
To this day they wear their light-colored homespun, and one will meet at the fairs many fine sturdy middle-aged farmers with a cut to their homemade clothes that reminds one of the Bretons.
Every day they furnish us with realhomemade crullers and pies at a small cost, and their coffee, holy smoke!
Anything that is homemade don't last long around here, and when they get candy or anything sweet there is a line about a block long.
This may be a homemade replacement of the original card.
This is unquestionably a homemade instrument produced by a skillful whittler early in the 18th century.
Homemade wooden surveying compass carved from block of maple entirely with a jackknife; painted in red.
A homemade ring of pewter surrounds the compass rose at needle level.
Homemade instruments such as those described below were unquestionably the exception instead of the rule.
One or two examples are obviously homemade by unskilled amateur practitioners.
Henry by and by let his own roam as they would and he was in dreamland, when he was aroused by a sharp smack of the teacher's homemade ruler upon his homemade desk.
The little river flowed in a silver current, smoke rose from many chimneys, and now and then the red homemade linsey dress of a girl gleamed in the sunlight like the feathers of the scarlet tanager.
She wore a dress of homemade linsey dyed red, and its close fit suggested the curves of her supple, splendid young figure.
In the Western States many fires have resulted from putting out homemade phosphorus poisons for ground squirrels, and entire fields of ripe grain have been destroyed in this way.
When homemade preparations of phosphorus are used there is much danger of burning the person or of setting fire to crops or buildings.
Before him stood a homemade contraption young Renaud fondly hoped bore enough resemblance to a telegraphic outfit to work.
It didn't seem possible that this homemade contraption of wood and wire and old curtain fixtures could really reach out into the ether and pull down music for its users.
Like a showman putting his charges through their stunts, Lee put all his crude, homemade apparatuses through their paces.
The need was great, yet there were so few to do the relief work, and the equipment of homemade scows and lumbering log rafts was so inadequate.
The roof was gone, but the cabin walls stood, and the meagerhomemade furniture was safe.
Inside was bareness save for a homemade bedstead spread with a faded old quilt and one chair set by the window opening that had no glass but merely closed with a heavy shutter of wooden slabs.
Then Lee saw Jimmy, the prisoner of the old homemade armchair by the window opening.
But Lee Renaud had made many steps forward since that night when he had put King's Cove in touch with the world with hishomemade radio.
Madison, my first town, showed me that my clothes were homemade and tacky.
We had buried three of them in homemade coffins--pioneering is a ruthless scythe, and only the fit survive.
These settlers have to bore down the sixty feet to water level with very inadequate tools; and you see little burros chasing homemade windlasses round and round, to pump up water.
It was earth-floored, with a fewhomemade chairs, and a bed with board floor.
He was a typical guatemalteco in whole trousers and an open shirt, but of some education, for he was writing with moderate rapidity at his homemade desk.
There was the heavy, homemade chair wherein Sam Carr was wont to sit and read.
Upon a blistering day in July, a little past noon, a man stepped out on the porch, and drawing into the shadiest part a great, rude homemade chair upholstered with moosehide, sat down.
They had a bed in there, a few chairs and a homemade table.
My sister set and rocked that baby all night long in a homemade cradle.
People wore homemade clothes, what I mean homespun and lowell clothes.
A Homemade Hand Drill Press The little use I had for a drill press did not make it advisable to purchase one, so I constructed a device for drilling iron and brass which answered all purposes.
Homemade Rivet Set Desiring to rivet some pieces of leather together and having no rivet set, I hastily made one from a strip of heavy sheet tin, 3/4 in.
A Homemade Exerciser A weight machine for exercising the muscles of the arms is easily constructed by using two screw hooks, 5 in.
Homemade Screen-Door Spring [Illustration] A screen or storm-door spring can be easily made of spring-steel wire.
Homemade Countersink for Wood A round or flat-head bolt can be made into a good rosebit or reamer for countersinking holes for screw heads.
A Homemade Drill Press An ordinary breast drill is used in the construction of this drill press, it being rigidly secured to a piece of oak, A, 2 in.
Homemade Hacksaw Frame A home workshop not having a complete set of tools may be supplied in many ways with tools made by the owner.
Homemade Wing Nuts A handle taken from a worn-out faucet, drilled out and threaded for a bolt, makes a good wing nut.
Homemade Towel Roller [Illustration] The towel roller is made of a piece of broom handle, 16 in.
In addition to that there was no housewife more expert at the flax-wheel, and her homemade linen was famous from one end to the other of the Tappan Zee.
The mothers remember when, during the winter, the children went to school for a few months, they were laughed at because of their meager lunches, their queer homemade clothes, and their foreign speech.
Our homemade beds was made out of rough planks nailed to high poles; leastways de poles was high for de headpieces, and a little lower for de footpieces.
The usual laundry and toilet soap was a homemadelye product, some of it a soft-solid, and some as liquid as water.
There was a milk cow and consequently homemade butter and cottage cheese--all the makeshift discomforts of homesteading replaced by the solid and enduring qualities of home.
So we had a postmistress and a post office, with its tiers of empty, homemade pigeonholes ready to receive the mail.
In one corner a homemade bunk was fastened to the wall, with ropes criss-crossed and run through holes in the 2 × 4 inch pieces of lumber which formed the bed, to take the place of springs.
Most of the bachelor homesteaders bought boxes with a view to what they would get to eat--potato salad and homemade cake.
For months after the settlers came west they ordered many commodities by mail, and their friends sent them everything from postcards to homemade cookies and jelly, so as mail carriers we became pack mules.
Clara Louise MacPherson took a prize for painting, and Mrs. Lynde got first prize for homemade butter and cheese.
The party won't be any good without homemade ice cream," Midge said gloomily.
The parents lined up for their decorated paper plates, napkins, silverware and big piece of homemade cake.
A few cans of homemade fruit, evidently abandoned when the church was closed, remained.
Now this isn't as good as homemade ice cream," he apologized.
It relieved their minds to see that the parents didn't seem to mind not having homemade ice cream.
I suppose it's because we haven't had any homemade bread since we came.
We can run it right along here," Corene was drawing a very crooked line in the trampled earth, with her homemade broom handle.
The swim over, next came the delivery of all thosehomemade messages.
In the Auge Valley of France, farmers also drink homemade cider with their own Augelot, a piquant kind of Pont l'Evêque.
It is the easiest and quickest to make of all cheeses, by simply letting milk sour, or adding buttermilk to curdle it, then stand a while on the back of the kitchen stove, since it is homemade as a rule.
