CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Farm Home of William H. Ferris, Elmwood Township, South of Sabin 



head. He has always been looking for 

 the new things in agriculture and was 

 ever one of the first to test anything 

 that promised improvement. He has 

 rented the larger part of his farm and 

 is now practicing intensified farming 

 on 65 acres. He has raised alfalfa for 

 the past five years and considers it 

 one of the most valuable crops the 

 farmers can raise. He grows several 

 acres of sweet corn each year for the 

 Remington Packing Company of Moor- 

 head. One of the illustrations shows 

 seed corn drying on the front of Mr. 

 Lamb's granary — it tested 96 per cent. 

 Mr. Lamb has been president of the 

 Moorhead National Bank since 1893. 

 He was one of the incorporators of the 

 Dilworth State Bank and has been its 

 only president. 



W. H. Ferris came to Clay county 

 35 years ago and today is one of those 

 who can afford to take life easy. No 

 one who knows Mr. Ferris, however, 

 would accuse him of loafing on the job. 

 He is a native of Ireland, County 

 Down, and lived on one of the Thou- 

 sand Islands in the St. Lawrence river 

 before coming to Minnesota. He lo- 

 cated a homestead in Elmwood town- 

 ship and chopped wood along the Red 

 River several winters. With the money 



he earned working out he bought more 

 land in Wilkin county. Now he owns 

 over 1,000 acres of the best land in the 

 Red River Valley — 560 acres in Clay 

 and 480 in Wilkin county. 



Mr. Ferris' farmstead, three miles 

 southeast of Sabin, is one of the land- 

 marks of that section. His big house 

 is nearly surrounded by a fine grove 

 of trees and the barns and outbuild- 

 ings are conveniently located to the 

 south. The house is modern in every 

 way — the illustration shows the west 

 side and rear. 



Potato growing, general farming and 

 stock raising are the rule on the Ferris 

 farm. When winter closed down there 

 were 8,000 bushels of seed potatoes in 

 the root cellar to be sold in the spring. 



Rustad Farmers' Elevator 

 The Farmers' Elevator & Trading 

 Company of Rustad was organized in 

 July, 1913, with eighteen farmers as 

 stockholders. Elevator property, val- 

 ued at $4,800 is owned by this company 

 and a $1,500 surplus was on hand on 

 the first of the year. 



The officers are : M. O. Valan, pres- 

 ident; Louis Miller, vice president; 

 Sam Rustad, secretary, and Even Cor- 

 neliussen, treasurer. 



