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News Details (Posted: January 2, 2007):
PIONEERS CHALLENGED IN FARMING A WILDERNESS
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As Hamilton County settlers arrived in the early 1800s, they sewed their first crop of "Indian corn" among tree stumps, the bark "girdled" to kill the tree, which, the next year, would be chopped down and pulled to gigantic piles for burning. That would be followed by the difficult task of removing the stumps, which, extracted laboriously and slowly, then formed another enormous bonfire.
But at least the large fires, when community efforts, were occasion for social gatherings. So, too, the seasonal events when corn was shucked -- ears plucked from the stalks -- to be stored in each farmer's crude wooden crib, built like a small log cabin but with no chinking to impede ventilation and constructed from smaller logs than for cabins. The remaining corn stalks then became fodder for the cattle.
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