CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Peter Lamb Farmstead, Oakport Township 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the Peter Lamb farmstead, in Oakport 

 township, three miles north of Moor- 

 head. Nearly all of the farm is now 

 under cultivation, about eighty acres 

 of the timber land having been cleared 

 up recently. The larger stumps are 

 blasted, and the smaller ones and the 

 brush are torn out with a huge tractor 

 plow. 



For the past five years Mr. Lamb's 

 sons — Owen, Michael and Patrick — 

 have had the active management of 



the farm, the business being conducted 

 under the name Peter Lamb & Sons. 

 In addition to the home farm of 240 

 acres the firm cultivates about 800 

 acres of leased land. Practically all 

 of the plowing is done with gang plows 

 hauled by a tractor engine. After har- 

 vest this engine forms part of the 

 threshing outfit. There are now near- 

 ly 150 head of red polls on the farm 

 and next year one of the best bulls 

 in the state will be added to the herd. 

 The Lambs are extensive growers of 



H. J. McCarthy's Corn Field, Near Glyndon 



