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such things as could be easily transported. I have known 

 fruit to be so plentiful as to have no market value whatever. 

 Hogs and cattle were not shipped to market as now but to 

 some extent were butchered at home in the winter time and 

 the carcasses hauled in sleighs either to the lumber woods 

 or to Detroit, a distance of sixty miles. I do not remember 

 that there was any grain shipped from our part of the coun- 

 try. 



There were many kinds of small manufacturing estab- 

 lishments in existence then that we do not have now. Every 

 village had its cabinet shop, its cooper shop, its wagon shop 

 and its blacksmith shop, where bureaus, bedsteads, chairs, 

 wagons and carriages, pork barrels, flour barrels, washtubs, 

 churns, axes and many other kinds of tools and furniture 

 were made wholly at home. There were also frequent man- 

 ufactories of "earthen ware" as it was called, where crocks 

 of all kinds and sizes as well as jugs, churns, etc., were made. 

 In fact, the people of those times could have almost any- 

 thing needed on the farm or in the house made at home. 

 There were almost no farming tools brought in from the 

 outside for sale excepting scythes, cradles, shovels, spades 

 and pitchforks, and even the pitchforks were often made by 

 the village blacksmith. The people of those days were self- 

 reliant and independent, in which two desirable character- 

 istics there has been no advancement to the present time. 



