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Updated: June 27, 2025


After leaving the service he and his brother started a "box factory," on the canal in Grand Rapids. In the winter of 1865-66 he took me over to see it. It was a small affair run by water power. The "boxes" which they manufactured were measures of the old-fashioned kind like the half-bushel and peck measures made of wood fifty years ago.

He went to church on Sunday, and thought much of heaven on week days. His cabbages were a wonder; some with heads as large as a half-bushel measure. He did something very respectable in the potato and turnip line. He had grown beans and beets which would show well in any market. He always left a strip or corner for flowers.

This may consist of roots such as cabbages, beets, carrots, or turnips sliced or of potatoes, a peck, or if the cows are very large a half-bushel each, and cut feed again at the evening milking, as in the morning; after which, water in the stall, if possible. The less cows are exposed to the cold of winter, the better.

I worked hard at the fruit-picking, and kept account when Ike laid straw or fern over the tops of the bushel and half-bushel baskets, and placed sticks across, lattice fashion, to keep the apples and pears in.

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