. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. Fourth Growth Alfalfa Stack from One Cutting—Cornfield in Background farmers now grow hundreds of acres of potatoes each year. They have root cellars on their farms where the po- tatoes are stored until late in the win- ter, when shipment is made to the southern and southwestern markets. Potato cellars and shipping houses are as numerous in the cities and villages as the grain elevators. While other varieties are grown the Early Ohios, known to the trade as The success in potato growing en- couraged the Clay County farmers to further diversi
. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. Fourth Growth Alfalfa Stack from One Cutting—Cornfield in Background farmers now grow hundreds of acres of potatoes each year. They have root cellars on their farms where the po- tatoes are stored until late in the win- ter, when shipment is made to the southern and southwestern markets. Potato cellars and shipping houses are as numerous in the cities and villages as the grain elevators. While other varieties are grown the Early Ohios, known to the trade as The success in potato growing en- couraged the Clay County farmers to further diversify their crops. In or- der to maintain the productiveness of the soil they found it would be neces- sary to use a fertilizer. This led them to engage more extensively in stock raising and dairying. The cattle and hogs must be fed, and clover was found to take kindly to the soil and to withstand the winters. Then corn. 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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