Vegetables fresh from her garden fill the Cloverly stand of Ruth Harding c.1950. In busy Cloverly, the Harding family ran a general store just south of the stand, Ida Leizear operated a store and post office at the intersection of Bryant Nursery Road, Herbert Heil had a store a little farther north, the Harry Carrolls ran a store and smithy at the corner of Briggs Chaney Road, and, into the present, the O'Keefes sell apples and nursery stock, and Mike Heyser and Leonard and Betty Becraft run roadside stands.

A team of oxen helped Joseph Harding establish himself as the county's leading potato grower. In the pre-tractor era of draught animals, farmers could choose between oxen, horses, and mules and often debated the merits of each. "Oxen possessed great strength and would pull a dead weight," recalled Stanley Stabler, "but as ruminants they had to be given time to lie down and chew their cuds, and that was dead time." Mules were easier to keep than horses, tougher, but had a small, donkey foot that sank into plowed ground. Overall the "noble horse" was the most satisfactory--more manageable and less stubborn than the mule, quicker to learn and obey than the ox.