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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



that date. The report of the associa- 

 tion for the year ending December 31, 

 1915, shows that 175 patrons delivered 

 386,252 pounds of cream containing 

 102,720 pounds of butterfat, for which 

 the average price paid was 28.39 cents. 

 For the 127,392 pounds of butter made 

 $32,026.39 was received, the average 

 price being 25.13 cents. The amount 

 paid to patrons was $29,162.25. 



The officers are : C. C. Nelson, pres- 

 ident; H. M. Tang, vice-president; 

 Nels Mikkelson, secretary and treas- 

 urer, and Hans Erickson, H. F. Gill, 

 J. 0. Hillestad, Andrew Ulven and 

 Christ Olson, directors. E. L. John- 

 son is the buttermaker. 



La Val's Colonel of Lewison, Guernsey Sire, 

 John W. Friday Farm 



Georgetown 



Georgetown, originally a trading 

 post of the Hudson Bay Company, was 

 located on the Red River. When the 

 Moorhead Northern was built through 

 in 1884, the town, which was later in- 

 corporated as a village, was moved to 

 the present site. There is an excel- 

 lent school and the village has its full 

 share of business houses. The State 

 Bank of Georgetown, while one of 

 the younger banks of the county, has 

 deposits averaging nearly $100,000. 



Georgetown is one of the leading 

 grain markets of the county and over 

 170,000 bushels of wheat from the 1912 

 crop were handled by the elevators of 

 the village. This was the county rec- 

 ord for the year, and the number of 

 bushels of rye handled was also the 

 largest of any market in the county. 



any description has ever been used. 

 Each year, after threshing, the straw- 

 stacks have been burned. Still many 

 of these farms in 1915 produced from 

 28 to 33 bushels of No. 1 wheat to the 

 acre, and other grain in proportion. 

 Hence the comparison of the land in 

 the valley of the Red River of the 

 North with the wonderfully fertile 

 land of the valley of the Nile. 



Nearly every farmer in Clay County 

 has his mail delivered by one of the 

 twenty-two routes within the county, 

 or one of the three other routes that 

 cover small parts of the county. Sev- 

 eral years ago, through the efforts of 

 Congressman Steenerson of this dis- 

 trict, a complete county system of 

 rural routes was ordered, and has 

 since been established, only a few lo- 

 calities not receiving the service. 



Georgetown Farmers' Elevator 

 Company 



The Georgetown Farmers' Elevator 

 Company began business in the fall of 

 1911 and earned 100 per cent on the 

 capital stock, $10,000.00, the first year. 

 Besides making improvements and 

 keeping the property in repair, the 

 company has paid annual 10 per cent 

 dividends since the first year. The 

 value of the elevator property is 

 $6,000.00 and there is a good balance 

 in the surplus account. 



Officers of the company are : Mar- 

 tin E. L. "Wilk, president; H. P. Skor- 

 stad, vice-president; Theo. S. Nelson, 

 secretarj' and treasurer, and A. S. 

 Gaudland, C. C. Soberg, Martin Lerud, 

 John Finney, E. O. Lee and H. Var- 

 land. directors. A. B. Mandt is the 



There are farms in Clay County that 

 have been under cultivation for over 

 30 years upon which no fertilizer of 



Treating Seed Wheat for Smut 



