| Summary: | brought butter to the back doors of Lakota homes. It was his habit to stop on his way to town, to inquire of his farm neighbors whether he might perform some errand for them while he was in Lakota. A large crew of men was necessary to operate the dairy business, to care for a stable of thoroughbred horses, and to till the large grain fields. Many of his workers came from Scotland, their transportation paid for them by the Earl. A platform a-top the granary served as a lookout from which Sinclair, with field glasses, could view his entire farm and watch the progress of field work. Here, in the early spring, he could see his 30 mules, 4 to a gang plow, turning over the soil. Through the growing season, he would frequently mount the platform to survey his greening acres, to observe the large-scale hay making. In harvest time he spent much time driving his buckboard over the fields, bringing meals and refreshment to his crew. Tractor borrowed from Schafer of New Rockford, and shown in parade by Mootz Implement at Lakota's 75th anniversary in 1958. Donald Mootz is on the tractor. John Joseph Schuh farm, which was homesteaded about 1882 or 1883. It is now farmed by Raymond Schuh, son of the late Paul Schuh, who was a grandson of John J. Schuh. In 1905, John Sutherland Sinclair sold his Beridale Farm and Lakota neighbors honored him with a farewell banquet. He returned to Scotland, and after making some improvements on his estate in Aberdeenshire, came back to this continent. For a time he lived in the Peace River territory of Canada, then went to California where he served as secretary of a copper mining corporation. He lived quietly at the Balboa Hotel in Los Angeles, for three years. Following injuries in a traffic accident, he died and was buried at Forest Lawn. At the time of his death, there were only three persons in California who knew that he was a thrice-titled Scotch nobleman. Reprinted by special permission of Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud, author of Extraordinary North Dakotans, the book in which this story was first published. T Barn and silo on the Lakota Dairy Farm owned and operated by M. H. Altermatt. Filling the silo with chopped corn. Clifford Altermatt is on the ground raking the corn in the blower. The Titan tractor was purchased in 1920 and was the first tractor owned by the Altermatts. Date of picture 1929. Stacking hay, Frank Franzen's, 1932. 120 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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