. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 51. Peter Lamb Farmstead, Oakport Township The accompanying illustration shows the Peter Lamb farmstead, in Oakport township, three miles north of Moor- head. Nearly all of the farm is now under cultivation, about eighty acres of the timber land having been cleared up recently. The larger stumps are blasted, and the smaller ones and the brush are torn out with a huge tractor plow. For the past five years Mr. Lamb's sons—Owen, Michael and Patrick— have had the active management of the farm, the business being conducted under the name Peter Lam
. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 51. Peter Lamb Farmstead, Oakport Township The accompanying illustration shows the Peter Lamb farmstead, in Oakport township, three miles north of Moor- head. Nearly all of the farm is now under cultivation, about eighty acres of the timber land having been cleared up recently. The larger stumps are blasted, and the smaller ones and the brush are torn out with a huge tractor plow. For the past five years Mr. Lamb's sons—Owen, Michael and Patrick— have had the active management of the farm, the business being conducted under the name Peter Lamb & Sons. In addition to the home farm of 240 acres the firm cultivates about 800 acres of leased land. Practically all of the plowing is done with gang plows hauled by a tractor engine. After har- vest this engine forms part of the threshing outfit. There are now near- ly 150 head of red polls on the farm and next year one of the best bulls in the state will be added to the herd. The Lambs are extensive growers of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Meeker, D. W. [from old catalog]. Moorhead, Minn. , D. W. Meeker
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