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		bluGill 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Fond Farewell Despite the name "farmers" I doubt the majority of customers were farmers, at least not in the last 50 years or so.

lokar 4 months ago [–]

Over the 200 years, most of the readers may have been farmers, or at least lived or worked on farms. That would have been much of the population back then.

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