Bartering in the 1800's

because Hard Cash was rare with Farmers many customers preferred bartering to buying they'd bring in homemade fabrics and candles or farm products and trade them for merchandise in the store or exchange them for something that another farmer might have left for barter like this homemade apple peeler the Apple was placed on these nails the knife mounted on a handle to peel an apple you simply turn the wheel this type of flat iron was relatively new then it had a compartment to hold a piece of iron which had been hung over the fire until it was red hot by hanging several of these fillers over the fire and replacing them in the compartment as often as needed women did not have to stop and reheat the whole flat iron