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A String of Gang Plows on the Emil Lambert Farm 



room, so they bought the Stevens 

 farm, about 200 acres, six miles south 

 of Moorhead. For the past three years 

 they have made a specialty of grow- 

 ing seed corn and even in 1915 were 

 successful, securing several hundreds 

 of bushels of Minnesota No. 13 seed 

 of excellent quality. In fact, it was 

 so good that both the first and second 

 prizes for this district were won by 

 it at the First National Corn Show 

 in St. Paul. This is more creditable 

 when it is known that only one of the 

 other nine counties in the district, 

 Becker, is as far north as Clay. In 

 the future the brothers will continue 

 to specialize on Minnesota No. 13. 

 They will also grow other grain for 

 seed, the plan being to make this, as 

 exclusively as possible, a seed farm. 



Pioneer Insurance Company 

 In 1885 the farmers of Clay and 

 three adjoining counties organized the 

 Parke Mutual Fire Insurance Company 

 of Rollag. This company insures farm 

 buildings and other farm property in 

 the towns of the southeastern part of 

 the county and in several townships 

 in Becker, Otter Tail and Wilkin coun- 

 ties. At the present time the total 

 amount of risks carried is $448,000.00, 

 and the average cost for each $100 

 since the company was organized has 

 been less than nineteen cents. 



The officers are: S. P. Anderson, 

 president; C. J. Berg, secretary and 

 treasurer: and H. O. Solum, H. Erick- 

 son, N. O. Christianson, Ole Larson, 

 Anton Peterson, F. L. Larson and P. 

 Folden. directors. 



Tractor Pulling Twelve 14-Inch Plow Bottoms, Emil Lambert Farm 



