 Clover seed was very expensive at the time, a bushel of the seed sold for as much as $24.00.Clover was very important to farmers for providing ground cover and as a food supply for their grazing dairy cows.The village of Antes Fort rose up around the train station that was built in Nippenose Township to service the borough of Jersey Shore which is the north and across the West Branch Susquehanna River from Nippenose Township.