. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. Road Crew and Camp on State supplemented this work by digging lateral ditches or underdraining with tile. The ultimate outlet of all the ditches is the Red River of the North. Most of the work of recent years has been done with ditching machines, and the earth taken from the cut is leveled to form a highway grade. The fertil- ity of the lower stratas of the soil is shown by the strong growth of vegeta- tion on the tops and sides of these grades. One of the illustrations shows a "drag line" machine at work making a seven-foot cut. T
. Clay County. Agriculture. CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. Road Crew and Camp on State supplemented this work by digging lateral ditches or underdraining with tile. The ultimate outlet of all the ditches is the Red River of the North. Most of the work of recent years has been done with ditching machines, and the earth taken from the cut is leveled to form a highway grade. The fertil- ity of the lower stratas of the soil is shown by the strong growth of vegeta- tion on the tops and sides of these grades. One of the illustrations shows a "drag line" machine at work making a seven-foot cut. The capacity of the pan is two yards, and from 800 to 900 yards of earth are excavated each day. The machine moves by its own power, the pan forming the anchor and the machine moving forward as the cable is wound up. The other illustration shows one of the ditches that was dug about twelve years ago. Good Roads in Clay County Clay was one of the pioneer counties of the state in the good roads move- ment. After the passage of the Dunn Act in 1913 plans were made for con- structing an extensive system of state roads in the county, all being done by day labor with county equipment. Early in the spring of 1914 a complete. 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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