The\u00a0Corvallis outdoor farmers’ market<\/a> is already in full swing, and sales are brisk! In addition to pasture-raised chicken and free-range duck and chicken eggs, we have frozen turkey. A while ago we offered poultry by the piece as well as whole, and this is all doing well.<\/p>\n Other farmers have early strawberries, asparagus, all kinds of greens, potted plants, and all kinds of meat and cheese products.<\/p>\n Our early pullets and broilers are doing well on pasture, and we just got six weaner pigs, cute as buttons!<\/p>\n Plotto Instruction Booklet.<\/b>\u00a0I’ve published one new book since last time: William Wallace Cook’s\u00a0<\/b>Plotto Instruction Booklet<\/b><\/a>. This is a course in using Cook’s own\u00a0Plotto<\/a> plot-generation system. Plotto <\/i>has been the constant companion of fiction writers for screen and print since it came out in 1928, but the system is quite hard to learn without the\u00a0Plotto Instruction Booklet<\/a>, which is quite hard to find. So I’ve republished it, both in print form and for the Kindle. (On the Kindle, it’s $4.99, or just $0.99 if you buy the paperback from Amazon,\u00a0or free if you’re a member of Kindle Unlimited.)<\/p>\n Success With Baby Chicks.<\/b>\u00a0I’ve also created a Kindle version of my own book,\u00a0Success With Baby Chicks<\/a>.\u00a0I’ve priced it at just $3.99 (or just $0.99 if you’ve bought the paperback from Amazon,\u00a0or free if you’re a member of Kindle Unlimited).<\/p>\n If you started most of your baby chicks in March and April, the amount of labor your chickens require is lower in May. The labor requirement will reach a minimum in the summer months (“Summertime, when the living is easy”), and picks up again as your pullets start to lay and you need to prepare for winter.<\/p>\n List inspired by a similar one in Jull’s\u00a0Successful Poultry Management<\/i>, McGraw-Hill, 1943.<\/p>\n Norton Creek Press Best-Seller List<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n These are my top-selling books from last month:<\/p>\n All of these are fine books (I only publish books I believe in). If you’re like most readers of this newsletter, you’ll enjoy starting with\u00a0Fresh-Air Poultry Houses<\/a>and\u00a0Success With Baby Chicks<\/a>. These cover the basics of healthy, odor-free, high-quality chicken housing and zero-mortality chick brooding, respectively, and get good\u00a0reviews.<\/p>\n I started Norton Creek Press in 2003 to bring the “lost secrets of the poultry masters” into print\u2014techniques from the Golden Age of poultrykeeping, which ran from roughly 1900 to 1950. I’ve been adding an eclectic mix of non-poultry books as well. These include everything from my science fiction novel,\u00a0One Survivor<\/a>, t o the true story of a Victorian lady’s trip up the Nile in the 1870s,\u00a0A Thousand Miles up the Nile<\/a>.\u00a0See my complete list of titles.<\/a><\/p>\n Here are some posts since last time,\u00a0from my various blogs:<\/p>\n And if that’s not enough, you can use social media\u00a0to stay up to date:<\/p>\n This newsletter is sent out monthly\u00a0by Robert Plamondon to anyone who asks for it. Robert runs\u00a0Norton Creek Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n Norton Creek PressPublishing News<\/h2>\n
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