|
Michigan Jackson Mi.
FARMS AND FARMING.
The most of the teams owned by the pioneers were composed of oxen, as they were much the most serviceable in the clearing of the land neces-sary for improvements of any kind, and particularly in logging, in plow- ing among and removing the stumps, and in building the log and brush heaps preparatory to burning after the timber had been cut down. They were also much better adapted than any other teams to the state of the roads, or rather to the entire want of any other road than the tracks' made by those who had "gone before " on the same route, with no bridges-across the streams, and no causeways across the marshes, with no more certain guide from point to point than the blazes made on the trees to designate the route. With these teams our patient, frugal and indus trious pioneers were obliged to go from twenty to thirty miles for most' of their provisions the first year, and for six years to get ground their little grists of wheat, corn or buckwheat. Mr. John T. Durand informs me that it always took him three days with his ox team to make the trip to the mills at Dexter.
Jackson
Section 1
Page 35
|
|
Please help us keep this site online and to continue to bring sites like this one.
Thank you
|
