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Michigan Jackson Mi.
The crops raised this year, and the wheat harvested from this fall's sowing—the yield from which was very gratifying—were of great benefit to the little settlement. For hay they found a ready, abundant and excellent supply in the grasses on the marshes, which were on the borders of all the streams and lakes in the county. This was a most favorable circumstance for the pioneer, as it enabled him to feed his teams and winter his stock, if he was so fortunate as to have any, at an expense
much less than he otherwise could have done. Mr. Blackman and his associates cut and secured over eighty tons of this hay the first summer they spent in their new homes.
The settlements after the first summer became in a great measure self-supplying, so far as they depended upon agricultural products, but for long years were under the necessity of taking those tedious and unprofitable trips to the grist-mill at Dexter, which took up so much of their valuable time and was so exhausting to their scant stock of ready • money.
Jackson
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