LAW OF MONEY Some comments on these expens.es. We don't have the equipment to typeset our copy, so we send it to a local duo who call themselves Irish Setter. Nice people who do great work. Lane and Tom contribute about $160 toward our $620 in office-related e~penses. Our rent will go up to $225 in September, we anticipate. The one expense that always seems to me to be outrageous but inevitable is the $140 in office ,postage. That's for anything other than our monthly bulk mailings of fresh RAIN (i.e., urgent reques_ts for a RAIN, back issues, anytime we send five or more copies to one place, and lots of letters). . Where do we get this $i 609? Right now, we're working with three main sources: a grant from the NW Area Foundation,·subscriptions, and Lane and Tom's.contribution toward office/house expenses. We've been receiving about $520 per month.in income from subscriptions and other sales (back issues, the index to RAIN's Vol. I, Issues 1-8, etc.). With the $160 from Tom and Lane we have less than $700 coming in monthly. We now have about $6000 still coming on the foundation grant, maybe more, but there's no guarantee. Working with only these sources, we would obviously not have enough to carry on indefinitely. We're now looking at our options in working toward greater self-sufficiency: raising subscription prices, carrying advertising, lowering expenses, and others. We welcome ideas. We also know that money is starting to c·ome in from sales in-stores, which we began only recently. We don't yet know what it will amount to, though. If we wanted to be supported only by subscriptions, each of our ~urrent 725 subscribers would pay about $40 for a year's subscription. At 2000 subscribers, it •would be $15 each.- That's not what we're completely aiming toward, but it's one way to get a different perspective on magazine financing. We do want you to know that s4bscriptions are important tb us financially. There are probably more than 10,000 readers, we know. Besides to subscribers, we send RAIN to about 300 periodicals and contributors and lots of sample copies·. More than 10% of our subscriptions go to schools and libraries, and each of the rest is read by 4-5 people. . Where are our rea9ers, geographically? 60% of our December mailing went to the Pacific NW, 8% to California, 15% to.the East Coast, 4% to the Midwest aF1d 13% . to other places. If you know someone who'd be interested in RAIN, send us up to five names, and we'll send them a couple of introductory issues for free. Or, if you'd like a few extras to give away, let us know. We're a secr~t from too many people; whisper or shout us to s·omeone. (Steve and Lee are not brothers.) 1975, single copies free from: Technical Publications Office-EPA National Environmental Research Center 200 S.W. 35th Street Corvallis, OR 97330 For.fish-farmers (i.e. aquaculture), this covers fish-holding facilities, acquisition, acclimation, maintenance, specific care and problems, and references. Small Farm Project George D. Kemper Produce Development Section State.Dept. of Agriculture Charleston, WV In cooperation with the extension service bf West Virginia University, the ANNE eight-acre farm is operated to research and,demonstrate methods of farming on limited land resources. To/al sales from the 8-acre fa1rm last year were $1100 per acre. ·Sugar Energy Farms E.S. Lipinsky Battelle Institute 505 King Ave. Columbus, OH 43201 614-424-6424 Write, enclosing stamped, self-addressed . envelope. The concept of developing energy farms of sugar-producing crops to be converted into synthetic fuel on a "mass scale" is being studied. RAIN Page 3 Energy, Agricuiture and Waste Materials, by William J. Jewell, 540 pp., $22.50 from: • Ann Arbor Science Publishers P.O. Box 1425 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Details, from the viewpoint of the agricultural engineer, of energy consumed in food production, technology and energy' costs of pollution control and potential for producing energy from agricultural wastes. Recommended by Ken Smith, director, Ecotope Group methane proje . . • ' 11 I ' :- I I I ,:: f l ·1 . I i,-t ' • i , I ~ , I I :r J l i', 9 .. , .• ·~ .. · !~ '- . • I I 'I ·,' I ~\.; \1.1 ··, \I, I, • '1 , . ., . :. }.:.::.,;\ .t>~ ).'. '>• : •..: Rural Resources & Inform~tion Rt. 2, Box 142B Colville, WA 99114 RR&I is a loose collection, a rural network, sometimes just Skeeter (trying to - be both farmer and communicator), a communication center for intentional communities (especially central/eastern Washington), helping people locate, find others. Send description of you and your· situation, and stamp. RR&I spol)sors the Harvest Festival and Barter Days. Over 1,000 people at- ' tended, and according to various. reports it was a good event. Exchange of music for food; selling and bartering harvest crops. Skeeter will send you a leaflet . that would be of help to someone wanting to organize a barter festival (send stamp, envelope). RR&I also sponsored a healer's gathering and is working on a rural apprenticeship program; also compiling information for another issue of Rural Resources and Information. Plants, Shade & Sh.elter, by Paul E. Waggoner, Bulletin 656, Feb. 1962, free from: The Connecticut Agricultural . Experiment Station New Haven, CT AI)alyzes the differences in 7 microclimates (clearing, field, beach, etc.) as relates .to the human body's ability to maintain a comfortable internal temperature. Charts the relationship of wind, radiation wavelength, insulation, humidity, temperature and heat energy loss. . • . Continued on page 7
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