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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



At the Louis Altenbernd Home Farm, Sabin 



Louis Altenbernd has made a suc- 

 cess of potato growing and general 

 farming in Clay County. He came 

 from Lawrence, Kansas, in 1903 and 

 bought a 240-acre farm, now his home 

 place, adjoining Sabin on the south. 

 The first year he raised 75 acres of 

 potatoes, and is now one of the exten- 

 sive growers, raising about 400 acres 

 each year. He is also one of the heavi- 

 est dealers of the county, and besides 

 the four root cellars on his farms, with 

 storage capacity for 26,000 bushels, he 

 has five shipping warehouses on track. 

 The combined capacity of the cellars 

 and warehouses is 106,000 bushels. 



Mr. Altenbernd 's warehouses are 

 located at Sabin, Baker, Rustad and 

 Downer on the Great Northern and at 

 Watts on the Northern Pacific. The 

 Rustad house is owned jointly with 

 M. O. Valan of Kurtz township. Mr. 

 Altenbernd began to deal in potatoes 

 in 1904, and the shipments in one year 

 aggregated over 500 carloads. 



He is the owner of 1,400 acres of un- 

 encumbered land in Elmwood and Al- 

 liance townships, all within six miles 

 of a shipping pont. While potato 

 raising is the leading feature of Mr. 

 Altenbernd 's farming operations, he 

 raises other crops on a large scale. He 

 has 90 acres of alfalfa, and the usual 

 corn patch is 100 acres. He raises 

 some stock and owns a big bunch of 

 fine horses. The home farm has a fine 

 set of buildings, and all are well 

 equipped and modern. The elevator, 

 part of which is shown in the illustra- 

 tion, is of 17,000 bushels capacity. All 

 the grain is cleaned in the elevator, and 

 all feed used on the farms is ground at 

 home in a roller mill. 



Mr. Altenbernd is a director of the 

 Comstock State Bank and of the Clay 

 County Potato Growers' Association. 



The Pleasant View Dairy Farm is 

 appropriately named and the view 

 from the home may well be imagined 



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