From Clay Deposit to Corn Field. When President Wilson asked the country for increased food crops, Manager S. W. Cullum, of the Minnesota Clay Works, Inc., at Morton, Minn., decided to utilize thirty acres of idle land held by the company as reserve clay deposit. The field was under flood water until late in May, but early in June he had it plowed and planted to carefully selected seed corn. By August the prospects for a harvest were as shown in the illustration, which pictures one of the finest fields in Minnesota’s corn belt. Mr. Cullum is doing a bit in other ways, too. He is Deputy Sheriff, acting without pay upholding law and order in this part of Redwood County – including an Indian Reservation. With him in the picture is his son, Norman E. Cullum, mechanic in the First Minnesota Artillery. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, IL, September 11, 1917, Volume 51, Number 6, Page 490)