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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



The Frank Kimm Farmstead in Oakport Township 



potatoes and corn, and even in 1915 

 secured enough seed corn for this year. 

 They also have a fifteen-acre patch 

 of alfalfa that was sowed with barley 

 as a nurse crop. 



The Lamb farm is located in one of 

 the bends of the Red River and the 

 buildings are sheltered by a heavy 

 growth of natural timber. Numerous 

 groves of wild plum trees and thickets 

 of wild raspberries are found iu the 

 openings among the trees. 



Frank Kimm was born in Iowa and 

 was only a little chap when his par- 

 ents removed to Blue Earth County, 

 Minnesota. In 1893 Mr. Kimm came 

 to Clay County and engaged in farm- 

 ing, being for several years manager 

 of the Benedict farms. His home farm 

 is 480 acres, in Oakport township, and 

 he operates a total of 1,300 acres each 

 year. Mr. Kimm is one of the pro- 



gressive farmers of the county, being 

 among the first to grow potatoes, corn, 

 clover and alfalfa. He has a beautiful 

 30 acre field of alfalfa adjoining his 

 farmstead on the east. 



Mr. Kimm has a dairy herd of thirty 

 Guernsey grades, many of them three- 

 fourths full blood. He is breeding up 

 and has recently purchased Major 

 Dawn, 34,109, to head the family. This 

 handsome bull is three years old and 

 is a grandson of C'yrene d' Or, 3,977 

 F. S., an Island cow with an excep- 

 tional butter fat record. 



Beef cattle are also raised on the 

 Kimm farm and there are about 55 in 

 the herd. 



After serving many years on the 

 township board Mr. Kimm was chosen 

 to fill the vacancy on the county board 

 occasioned by the death of Capt. Rob- 

 ert Richards. He was later elected for 

 a full term and is now serving his 

 fourth year as county commissioner. 



Major Dawn, Registered Guernsey, 

 Frank Kimm Farm 



L. S. Thorn is a native of Illinois, 

 who came to Clay County from Knox 

 County in the state well versed in 

 diversified farming. In 1911 he pur- 

 chased the Curtis Farm, 280 acres, in 

 Oakport township, one mile north of 

 the Clay County court house in Moor- 

 head. Mr. Thorn is building up a 

 dairy herd and making a specialty of 

 dairying and stock raising. He has 

 about 45 head of Holstein and Short- 



