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  1. You only touched the surface of the use of ledgers. My grand fathers ledgers were his real records of what worked in life. His cattle one had the time when a cow entered heat, the bull that was used, the expected time for the calf, the weight, sex, and health of the calf, how much milk the gave, how fast the calf grew, the configuration of the calf, in the end if he kept the calf or sold it, and if he kept it, what its bloodline was in future breeding. He had similar ledgers for the crops with the field, seeds planted, fertilizers used, rainfall, weeds, yields, etc. He did nothing without looking first at his and his father’s ledgers that covered 70 years on one farm and one herd and updated them almost daily.

  2. Wow, the penmanship in the ledger is beautiful and almost a work of art in itself. This idea of a ledger should help get and keep a family on solid financial footing as they see where the money comes in and where it goes. Thanks for the ideas presented here.

  3. Thanks for this article about homestead ledgers. I am now using individual ledgers for the following; Garden, Canning, Livestock, Homestead Grid down projects that includes our solar power systems, Water, Sanitation, Security & communications, Cooking, Heating, Food preservation and potential medical drug needs; etc etc …… to all my fellow preppers out there, have a great 2017.

  4. Thanks for the great idea for a homestead ledger. I started keeping a ledger to log the service on each of my vehicles several years ago and I have found it to be very handy, but for some reason didn’t think of keeping a homestead ledger. My new ledger will help me stay focused on my agriculture as a hedge against future economic troubles.

  5. ….I have some hand receipts from my g-g-grandfather’s farm in Maryland in the 1830s…they used Contra accounts too; like in Washington’s example….I have one that shows my g-g-grandmother took a fleece into the store to offset the cost of the needles, thread, and fabric she bought…I also have one dated 1859 for a Colts .44 pistol….that’s when you knew war was coming.

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