Corn and other seeds were planted in the patches of land between the blackened trunks of the prostrate trees.

The planter provided himself with a little bag which was suspended from his waist, filled with seed, and a hoe with a bland about three inches wide, with a handle fifteen to eighteen inches long. With his strong right arm, he thrust the hoe through the scurf on the surface of the ground into the under laying loam, threw the seed into the incision, and pressing the earth above the seed with his foot, he passed on, repeating the process until the planting was completed.

If he had been favored with a Ògood burn,Ó only a little labor was required from the planting to the harvesting of the crops.

There were two classes of harvesters, bipedal and quadrupedal. As soon as the kernels of corn began to take form on the cob, the bears and smaller quadrupeds began their harvesting. Various expeditions were put in requisition to limit the depredation of these animals, but not with entire success.

But in spite of these drawbacks, the pioneer obtained a fair crop of corn, any surplus of which, above the needs of his family, entered into the currency of the period at prices fixed by common custom.

The next step in the clearing of the land was to divest it of the trunks of the trees that were scattered over it. These were cut into sections, hauled together, placed in piles and burned. The land was now ready for the crop of the second year.

The second crop, in the first ten years of the townshipÕs history, was more often a crop of rye than of any other, because there were early facilities to grind it. The soil was well adapted to the growth of wheat, but this crop was neglected on account of the lack of expensive machinery for reducing it to flour. Bread if rye meal, mixed with corn meal, was regarded as excellent food.

Grass seed was sown with the grain for the second crop, and the grass springing there from, became the crop of the third year. The pioneer enlarged this "opening" each year by this process that has been described, and the same alternation of crops followed in each triennial period, until at midsummer, his eyes were greeted with waving crops of grass and grain, and in autumn, he received the cheerful salutation of his tasseled corn, and watched the gambols of his growing flock.

He now enters a new decade. The township having assumed a corporate existence, had exchanged the elongated name of Lincolntown for the euphonic name of Garland. The first kiln of bricks having been made in 1812, upon the old homestead of the late William S. Haskell, the huge stone fire-places began to give way to brick fire-places and ovens.