Even mechanics, carpenters, shoemakei-s, weavers, tailors, coopers, and blacksmiths bad each his acre of land, cow and fatted pig, and whatever they lacked of other provisions they had no difficulty in obtaining by an exchange of labor for farmers' products, at the rate of four dollars per hundred weight of beef, eighteen cents per bushel for potatoes, fifty cents a barrel for apples, seventy-five cents a bushel for wheat, fifty cents for rye and not more than thirty-six cents a bushel for Indian corn, and other produce in proportion ; while the wages of the laboring man ranged from fifty to eighty doUai's a year, with board, and from fifty to seventy-five cents a day. The wages of mechanics were from seventyfive cents to one dollar a day, if boarded, and from one dollar to a dollar and twenty-five cents where they boarded themselves. Carpenters, w heelwrights and blacksmiths were employed upon many of the utensils of husbandry in those days to which they are strangers at the present time. The former made the farmer's ox-sleds, plows, harrows, cidermills, crackles and other implements for working in flax ; the latter forged his plow-shares, colters, chains and crowbars. The manufacture of flax and wool spinning-wheels was usually done by cabinet-makers and turners, which class of mechanics was far from numerous. 3 The turning was performed on the old-fashioned pole lathe.

"The dress worn by men consisted of pantaloons, vest and coat ; the latter trimmed with large brass buttons, and an overcoat, or, as it was then called, a malch-coat, a wool hat made very much in the form of the felt hats worn at the present day ; laced or low-quartered shoes, and woolen, home-knit stockings. Those garments as a general thing constituted a gentlenum's wardrobe or outfit for the winter.