CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Farmstead on J. W. Greer Farm in Moland Township Near Glyndon 



Greer, and is devoted exclusively to 

 stock raising and growing clover, corn 

 and alfalfa. Over fifty head of cattle 

 and a like number of hogs, besides 

 other stock, are already on the farm. 

 All of the buildings in the farmstead 

 were erected during the summer of 

 1914. Mr. Greer came to Clay County 

 from Plymouth County, Iowa, in 1903. 

 At that time he found Clay County 

 land selling at half the price charged 

 for farms in his home state. He also 

 found that the net income per acre is 

 larger here than from the high priced 



Iowa lands. The natural result was 

 that Mr. Greer soon became the owner 

 of Clay County land. 



Since early in the fall of 1914 Peter 

 Jacobs and family, all lovers of ani- 

 mals and practical stock growers, have 

 managed the Greer farm on the co- 

 operative plan. 



John I. Smith, a native of Ontario, 

 Canada, came to Minnesota in the fall 

 of 1879, locating in the southwestern 

 part of Clay County. In 1890 Mr. 

 Smith moved upon what is now his 



Part of John I. Smith's Farmstead, Rustad 



