Article: DERUYTER DELIGHT; COUNTRYSIDE HARDWARE'S STOCK VARIETY VAST.(SERIES: The Scenic Route)(Local)

Byline: Jim Reilly Staff writer

No little bell tinkles above the door when you walk into Countryside Hardware in DeRuyter, and the floor is gray, painted concrete instead of creaking wood.

Everything else, though, is here: the long, wide aisles with shelves piled with Carhartt and tools and toys; the quiet but helpful "girls" in blue Countryside Hardware smocks; the barbecue grills, steel-toed boots and 5-gallon tubs of tractor hydraulic fluid.

"We more or less cater to the local farmer, so we try to have anything they might need," said Sandy Wilcox, the third generation of the Cook family to run the store. "We do everything from thread pipe ...

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