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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



James Peterson's Farmstead, Elmwood Township 



and has more than doubled the acre- 

 age. It is a pleasure to visit a farm 

 that is so well kept and homelike in 

 every way. It is safe to predict that 

 many farmers will make their farm 

 homes as attractive as Mr. Janneck 

 has made his farmstead. 



James Peterson, now a prosperous 

 Elmwood township farmer, was for 

 many years engaged in the draying 

 business in Moorhead. In the spring 

 of 1910 he purchased the quarter sec- 

 tion where his home buildings are now 

 located. He moved on the farm and 

 got busy. He was accustomed to hard 

 work and did not form any new habits 



on the farm. The reward of his labor 

 was plentiful crops, and another 80 

 acres was added to the farm. Now 

 Mr. Peterson owns 400 acres of as good 

 land as lies out of doors. At the be- 

 ginning of the present winter he had 

 4,000 bushels of Early Ohio potatoes 

 in his root cellar and all the grain he 

 raised last year in his granary, except 

 what he sold to pay his threshing bill. 



P.H. Lamb came to Moorhead in 1872 

 from Knox County, Missouri. He did 

 teaming, conducted a brick yard and 

 built several buildings. In 1877 he 

 began to operate his farm in Oakport 

 township, but always resided in Moor- 



Buildings on P. H. Lamb Farm, Oakport Township 



