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Farmers Could Build Things or Find a Neighbor that Could

Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 25

Farmers Could Build Things or Find a Neighbor that Could,

duration 00:29

FARM WORK: Bert states that farmers were "jack-leg" carpenters & could build items they needed on the farm, or they had a good neighbor that could. Bert notes that this is different from today when people hire "union-men" to do a lot of this building work.