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December 5, 2012 |
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Arvin and Leona Dierks shared photos from one of their photo albums that captured corn being harvested from Mud Lake in 1959. | farming Mud Lake during drought years |
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By Norma Dittman
Murray County News staff writer
Pictures prove it to be fact that in 1959, Arvin Dierks planted and harvested a crop in Mud Lake. He planted both corn and soybeans in the lake bottom and was pleasantly sur- prised at the yield that pre-sented itself at harvest time. Mud Lake lies just to the south and west of Fulda and is now part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Ducks Unlimited Mud Lake Fulda Wildlife Management Area. “In the summer of 1958, we plowed the lake bottom. 1959 was a year like this year, and Curly (Norbert Sieverding) told me that if the lake bottom was dry, I should plant it,” Dierks explained. To read the rest of this article - pick up a copy of the Murray County News or you can read it on line - subscriptions to The Murray County News are available online. Click on the free demo and it will give you instructions on how to subscribe for the online edition. |
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