Femco Farm No. 2

Infobox_nrhp | name =Femco Farm No. 2
nrhp_type =nrhp

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caption = Femco Farm Number 2
operated by Gerald Krump in 1990
nearest_city= Kent, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 46
lat_minutes = 27
lat_seconds = 26.7
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 96
long_minutes = 39
long_seconds = 33.7
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1922
added = July 17, 1980
governing_body = Private
mpsub=Wilkin County MRA
refnum=80002184cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Femco Farm named for F. E. Murphy, president and publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune was actually six farms owned by Murphy in Wilkin County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. He used these farms, totaling 5000-6000 acres, to demonstrate breeding techniques and diversified farming in the 1920s and 1930s. He raised McKarrow Shropshire sheep, Holstein cows, white Orphington chickens, Duroc Jersey hogs, and Percheron horses and grew oats, barley, corn, alfalfa, sweet clover, rye and flax, in the belief that diversification would help farmers prosper. He bred a Holstein, Lady Pride, who was showcased at the 1932 State Fair. At the time she produced more butter than any other cow, yielding 35,626 pounds of milk and 1,483 pounds of butter in one year; at the time, the average cow yielded 4000 pounds of milk and 170 pounds of butter. He claimed that the yields his animals achieved could be reproduced by typical farmers using his techniques.cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3] [cite web| last =Laken| first =Neoma A.| title =Wilkin County Minnesota History| publisher =Wilkin County| url =http://www.co.wilkin.mn.us/history.asp| accessdate = 2007-11-12] [cite book| last =Marling| first =Karal Ann| title =Blue Ribbon - A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society| date =1990| pages =328| isbn =978-0873512527] [cite book|last =Manfred| first =Frederick| title =The WPA Guide to Minnesota| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society| date =1985| pages =539| isbn = 978-0873511858]

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