. Clay County. Agriculture. 104 CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED that date. The report of the associa- tion for the year ending December 31, 1915, shows that 175 patrons delivered 386,252 pounds of cream containing 102,720 pounds of butterfat, for which the average price paid was cents. For the 127,392 pounds of butter made $32, was received, the average price being cents. The amount paid to patrons was $29, The officers are: C. C. Nelson, pres- ident; H. M. Tang, vice-president; Nels Mikkelson, secretary and treas- urer, and Hans Erickson, H. F. Gill, J. 0. Hillestad, Andrew U
. Clay County. Agriculture. 104 CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED that date. The report of the associa- tion for the year ending December 31, 1915, shows that 175 patrons delivered 386,252 pounds of cream containing 102,720 pounds of butterfat, for which the average price paid was cents. For the 127,392 pounds of butter made $32, was received, the average price being cents. The amount paid to patrons was $29, The officers are: C. C. Nelson, pres- ident; H. M. Tang, vice-president; Nels Mikkelson, secretary and treas- urer, and Hans Erickson, H. F. Gill, J. 0. Hillestad, Andrew Ulven and Christ Olson, directors. E. L. John- son is the La Val's Colonel of Lewison, Guernsey Sire, John W. Friday Farm Georgetown Georgetown, originally a trading post of the Hudson Bay Company, was located on the Red River. When the Moorhead Northern was built through in 1884, the town, which was later in- corporated as a village, was moved to the present site. There is an excel- lent school and the village has its full share of business houses. The State Bank of Georgetown, while one of the younger banks of the county, has deposits averaging nearly $100,000. Georgetown is one of the leading grain markets of the county and over 170,000 bushels of wheat from the 1912 crop were handled by the elevators of the village. This was the county rec- ord for the year, and the number of bushels of rye handled was also the largest of any market in the county. any description has ever been used. Each year, after threshing, the straw- stacks have been burned. Still many of these farms in 1915 produced from 28 to 33 bushels of No. 1 wheat to the acre, and other grain in proportion. Hence the comparison of the land in the valley of the Red River of the North with the wonderfully fertile land of the valley of the Nile. Nearly every farmer in Clay County has his mail delivered by one of the twenty-two routes within the county, or one of the three other routes that cover small pa
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