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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



General View of the Buildings on E. D. Grant Farm 



barn under construction, and the five 

 workmen on the roof look like flies 

 upon a window pane. In the fore- 

 ground of the picture are three of the 

 young cattle. 



Eugene D. Grant is one of the pro- 

 gressive farmers of Clay County, who 

 is always found working in the front 

 rank in all things along the line of 

 agricultural development. Mr. Grant 

 was born in Michigan and came to 

 Minnesota with his parents in 1877. 

 They located at Duluth and four years 

 later moved to Clay County. In 1893 

 Mr. Grant began farming on his own 



account, and now has 1,400 acres un- 

 der cultivation at the home farm in 

 Glyndon township, and a quarter sec- 

 tion in Riverton township, making a 

 total of 1,600 acres. He is an exten- 

 sive grower of potatoes, having in- 

 creased his acreage of ten in 1893 to 

 320, which has been the size of his 

 patch each of the past five years. 



Seven years ago Mr. Grant began 

 to raise alfalfa and last year cut the 

 crop from eighty acres. Red clover 

 is another of Mr. Grant's favorite 

 crops, and he was one of the first of 

 the Clay County farmers to test it out. 

 Now it is a feature of his crop rota- 



Elevator Where Grain Is Stored, Cleaned and Ground on the E. D. Grant Farm 



