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Howard Langfltt
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I WANT TO SAT IN THE VERT BEGINNING THAT I AM DEEPLY GRACEFUL TO WALTHALL COUNTY AGENT ANSEL KSTBSS AH) ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT, EARL DUCKWORTH FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THIS FAMILY AND FOR GOING WITH ME TO THEIR FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I
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AM NOW GOING TO TELL. THIS IS THE STORY OF A FAMILY THAT STARTED WITH PRACTICALLY NOTHING BUT HONESTY AND INTEGRITY AND A REPUTATION FOR IT AND HAVE IN THE YEARS SINCE DEVELOPED A RELLY OUTSTANDING DAIRY PROGRAM. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES CARTER OF THE MESA COMMUNITY OF WALTHALL COUNTY, ABOUT ? MILES WEST OF TYLERTOWH, HAVE PUT EVERY THING UP TO THIS POINT INTO DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR DAIRY PROGRAM. WHILE THEY INTEND TO DO MUCH MORE REMODELING OF THEIR HOME, THEY ARE FRANK TO SAY THERE ARE OTHER THINGS MORE IMPORTANT TO THE WHICH MUST COME FIRST. THEY HAVE LIVED ON AMD FARMED THEIR 93 ACRES OF LAND SINCE JULY FOBRTH,
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3,952. THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS SING OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR WHEN THEY FINISHED THEIR , MODERN DAIRY BARN AND STARTED MILKING. THEY STARTED MILKING WITH TEN GRADE COWS AMD THE NEXT
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FALL BOUGHT 10 MORE, MOSTLY JERSEYS. TWO YEAtS
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AGO THEY BOUGHT AM OTHER TJy* H1SAD AND Ifl ''iS Aii TWO 1BARS fHHT HAVE BOtKIHf FIVE HEAD OP REGISTER J1RSESS PROM Oi MD&,
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OTH�WISE THEIR HERD GROWT
TO THKIR PHESBMT TOfAL OP i. HEAD HAS BBEH BX (8 SAVING THEIR � S T HBIPERS POR HERD RBPLACKMEHf. TH1T HAVE Jk MILK COWS AND ARE MILSII� 2$ AT flS PRBSEHT TIME. THS FAST W O IEARS TH11T HAVE USED BOTH ARTIFICIAL BREEDING AND A REGISTERED JERSEY BULL IN THEIR BREEDING PROGRAM. CHARLES RECALLS
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TBXT THE PRODUCTION AVERAGE OP HIS PIRST TBH COW WAS 4,800 POUNDS OP MILK. NOW HIS HSRD AVERAGE IS NEARLY 7,800 POUNDSOP MILE -fSR COW PER XEAR, CHARLES CARTER GBBDITS MUCH OF HIS SUCCESS IN DAIRlfING TO THE SSLP GIVEN BIM BY HIS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. HE SAYS MR. ESTESS, THE COUNTY AGENT HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY EELPPUL IN NOT ONLY ADVISING BUT IN CARRYING HIM TO DAISY PIBLD DAYS AND OTBIS EVENTS AT STATE COLLEGE S��� HE MIGHT BROADEN HIS KNOWLEDGE. HE SAYS A TRIP HE MADK WITH AHSELL TO THE COLLEGE HAS W THE DAIRY BUSINESS OR GOING INTO IT QmmWQ i HAK GREAT INSPIRATION TO HIM AND HE THINKS ANYONE IB
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SUCH A TRIP. CHARLES SAYS WHEN HIS COUNTY AG WORKERS STARTED OUT TO HELP HIM HE WAS BAVIN A
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HARD TIME MAKING ENDS MEET AND NOW IT'S AN ALTOGSTHSR DIPP1RSNT STORY. UP UNTIL TWO Y M R S
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AGO THE CARTER FAMILY MILKED WITH PORTABLE MILKERS AND CARRIED THE MILK TO THE CAN. THEN THEY INSTALLED THE LATEST IN DAIRYING EQUIPMENT, SLIDE FARM-8 TANK THIS BULK TANK AND CHARLES SAYS IT'S THE BEST THING THEY'VE DONE. THEY GIT A SUPERIOR GRADE OF MILK* THE TANK CAN BE CLEANED AS EASILY AS ONE CAN AND THE BACTERIA COUNT IS DOWN.. .THE LAS! OUNT WAS i*#80O. THEIR NEXT GOAL IS TO INSTALL A PIPELINE MILKING SYSTSK AND BAVIN! SEEN WHAT THIS FAMILY, EVERYONE OF THEM WORKING TOGETHER CAN DO, I AM CERTAIN THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT SLIDE FARM-9 CALF IN THE NEAR FUTURE. CHARLES SAVES HIS BEST HEIFEJ FOR HERD REPLACEMENT. HE RAISES HIS HBIFSR CALV1 IN INDIVIDUAL PENS AND BACH CALF GETS INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION UNTIL THEY ASS TURNED OS SPRING PASTOR! SOME HEIFERS HOW tk MONTHS OLD ARE STILL GETTING THAT INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION IVBRY DAY OF THEIR IFE. SLID! FARM-%0 &CALF THEY ARE WORMSD, TREATED FOR PARASITES AND INSECTS AND ARE VACCINATED. CHARLES ,IS A h FIHM BELIKV1R THAT EACH CALF HAS AN INDIVIDUAL ^IRSONALITY AND MUST BE TREATED AS AN INDIVIDUAL 13 THEY ARE TO DO THEIR BEST. AS I SAID EVERY' SEMBSR OF THE FAMILY WORKS IN THIS DAIRY PROGRAM W EIGHT YEAR OLD VON IS NO EXGEPTION. IT 3CS IIS JOB TO FEED THE CALVES, NOT ONE OF THESB
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YOUNGSTERS HAS TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO. THEY KNOW THEIR JOB AND WHEN THEY GUT IN PROM SCHOOL BACH DAY THEY GO RIGHT AT IT. THERE ARE THREE CHILDR! THE OTHER TWO ARE DAUGHTERS, FIFTEEN YEARS0LD EMILY A!� FOURTEEN YEAR OLD KAYB. GHARLBS
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GARTER IS ALSO A FISH BELIEVER IH FEEDING ACCORD IM TO PRODUCTIOIf. HE FEEDS THE COWS IM THE BARS A lb% DAIRY RATIOS AND HE STARTED OUT KEIGHIHS EACH COW'S FEED AHD HAS NEVER CHANGED. FOR THE DRY COWS HE FEEDS THEM TWO POUNDS A DAY THE FIRS MONTH AND THEN POUR POUNDS A DAY FOR THE SECOND MONTH. SINCE SPRIHG CHARLES HAS BEEN USING THIS
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SCOOP WITH BUILT IH SCALES TO WEIGH THE FEED FOR EACH COW. BEFORE THAT HI USED A CAN THAT MAS . SUPPOSED TO HOLD A GIVEN WEIGHT BUT HE FOUND HIS FEED WASN�T GOING AS FAR AS HE THOUGHT IT SHOULD SO HE GHECKED AND FOUND THAT THE FEED IN THE 3ANNSD VARIED IN WEIGHT ACCORDING TO THE METHOD 3F FILLING. SO HE BOUGHT THE SCOOP WITH THE SUILT IN SCALES AND RIGHT OFF HIS FEED LASTED
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iN EXTRA SEVEN DAYS. CHARLES CARTER DOES NOT �. j ISE ANY ROW CROPS. HE IS COMPLETELY A GRASS' M N D ANB FORAGE CROP FARMER. PERMANENT PASTURE, IS HE POINTS OUT TO ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT EARL
DUCKWORTH. CONSISTS OF 6 0 ACRES OF WHITE iDUTCH j |
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CLOVER AND DALLIS GRASS.
HE TESTS ALL HIS SOU* HE LIMES
AND FERTILIZES ACCORDING TO NEEDS.
AND FERTILIZES HIS PASTURES REGULARLY AND CLIPS THEN FOR WEED CONTROL. HE ALSO SPRAYS HIS
PASTURES WITH 2-Jj.-B FOR DOCK AND, 8ITT1RW1BB SLIDE ..... gAJW�3 0A3 CONTROL AS HEEDED, TEMPORARY WINTER GMZING HE HAS GRACING Ffi THE COWS ARE
CONSISTS OF Z$ ACRES IN OATS.
MID SKPTEMB&R TILL JUNE I F NEEDED. PRESENTLY ON THESE OATS�
THKY WILL OSAZE THEM
DOWN AND THEN GO ON SILAGE UNTIL THE OATS GOMB BACK AND THEN BACK ON THE OATS. CHARLES GARTER
J O T S OUT 10 ACRES OF MILLET FOR SUMMER GRAZING, SLIDE SILO SILAGE I S A MIGHTY IMPORTANT PART OF CHARLES CABT1R*S DA3BY PROGRAM. HE PUTS UP ABOUT 1 3
ACRES OP HYGffll IN HIS ISO TON TRENCH WHICH HB COVERS TO PROTECT I T FROM SPOILAGE. HE FEEDS
ABOUT 8 0 DA1TS, MOSTLY FROM DEUEtffim THROm FEBRUARY. TO POINT OUT WHAT CHARLES THINKS OF
S I L A G E , HE SAYS THAT TWO YEARS AGO HIS HKiD PRODUCTION AVERAGE WAS 7#8O0 POUNDS. SLIDE IN 1 9 5 8
HE DBCIBED TO DO WITHOUT I T AND HIS PRODUflflOS THAT YEAR PELL T0 AS AVERAGE OF 6*100 POUNDS. WENT BACK TO I T f H I S YliAR AND HIS PRODUCTION AVERAGE HAS RBTURNKD TO 7 # l 0 0 POUNDS. CHARLES
STARTED ON THE WEIGH A M Y A MONTH RECORD PROGRA*
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IN JANUARY OF 1957 ASP HAS BEEN CULLING AND FEEDING BASED OH PRODUCTION INDICATED BY THOSE RECORDS. HE'S BEEN LUCKY IN HIS BREEDING PROGRA; TOO, THIS TEAS HE HAS %$ HEIFER GALVES FROM 1? GOWS. CHARLES CARTER ALSO FIRMLY BELIEVES IN CONTROLLED GRAZING.HE HAS, 13 DIFFERENT PASTURES NONE OP THEM OVER 12 ACRES AMD NQ8E UNDER THREE. HIS LAND IS PENGBD AND CROSS FENCED AND WATBE PG( LIVESTOCK IS SUPPLIED M STOCKPONDS SUCH AS T8IS
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CHARLES IS A COMPLETELY MECHANIZED FARMER. HE HAS ONE TRACTOR AW HE OWNS A RAKB AND A NSIGHBd A BALER AND THEY SXCHANGE USE OP BACH. CHARIE1 PUTS UP ABOUT 19S0 BALES OF MJ BOTH OATS AND GRASS HAT. HI PAITIGULARLY LIKES CONDITIONED OAT SAt, AND HOPES TO PUT UP 2,000 BALIS OP IT THIS TEAR. OF 700 BALES OF OAT HAY HS PUT UP THIS YEAR 185 BALES ,WAS CONDITIONED AND HE THINE IT*8 TIE FINEST. 0BARLE1 CARTER ALSO HAS ABOUT 11 ACRES OF TIMBER WHICH HE HAS SELECTIVELY HARVESTJiD AND PROTECTED FROM FIRE. HIS PLAN FOR HAT TIMBER IS TO TURN IT OVER TO VON WHEN HS REACHES TEN YEARS OF AGE AND LET HIM MANAGE IT AS A 4-H CLUB PROJECT WITH THE HELP OF EARLX DUCg^ORTB, ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT. THE CHARLES CARTER FAMILY ALSO RAISES A FEW TURKEYS AND A
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FEW GUINM8, THEY HAVE U TURKEYS RIGHT HOW AMD ALWAYS RAISE FROM XI TO 25 FOR THEIR OWN USS* THEY HAVE Z$ GUINEAS AND CHARLES SAYS THEY HAVE VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED THE INSECT PROBLEM OH THE �LACE. THEY ALSO HAVE SOME CHIEKBNS BOT TlSir�RK QOINQ OtfT OP YARD OHIOKEIfS IK THE BWUim AID FM: SLIDE
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FOR ABOUT 20 HEHS IH CASES PROM THEIR POOB SUPPLY MRS. CARTSt PUTS UP 150 JARS OF POOD EA0H YEAR AND THEY RKGBHTLY PURCHASED A FAMILY POOD FREEZER AHD WILL FSSKZK A LOT OF THEIR POOD FROM NOW ON. MRS. CARTHR AMD BSR DAUGHTERS ALL DO SOME C00KI1KJ. IN THE MORHIHDS THE OIRSL D0**� IELP MILK SO THEY TAKE TURKS GETTING BSF0H1 OKTTING OFF TO SCHOOL. BESIDES IN TEE DAIRY BARN WITH THE REST* MBS. CARTER ALSO DOES ALL THE OOOKIMG EACH MIGHT. EMILY 10
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G I R L S S1WING
AN ACCOMPLISHED JSEAISTRSSS AND DOES MOST OF HSR OWN SEWING. KAYE, LOOKING ON HERB, I S LEARNING MRS. OARTJBR DOBS SHE DOBS A
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S W I N G FOR HERSELF ABD HELPS KAYE,
BEAUTIFUL JOB IN MAKING SHIRTS FOR CHAELBS.
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BOTH EMILX, ON THE LEFT, AND KAITK, BELONG TO TIE LT�H CLUB AND GARRY FOODS AND CLOTHING PR0J1CTS AND OF COURSE, DAHY B80JBCTS, THESE ARE OOBT
A FEW OF THE MANY I L ^ O N S THEY HAVE WON IN 4 - H
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ULUiJ WUJJK.
THAT TROPKST MAS WON BY KAYE BY
SHOWING THE GRAND CHAMPION JERSEY FEMALE AT THE SOUTHWEST DISTRICT LIVESTOCK SHOW IN HATTIESBUR* SLIDE T H I S SEAR. VON HAS ALSO WOK HIS SHARE OP JMtHRD* TOO, EVEN THOUGH HE'S SOT OLD ENOUGH FOB %�� 1ST. HE'S JUST WAITING FOR THE DAY WHEN ' O TOO JB THE GOUHTY 4 - H fiAI^T
0AH BE A 4-H CLUB MBMBSl.
C�UB HAS MEAHT A LOT TO THIS MMLt.
IT WAS
ORGANIZED POH BOTH PARE2TTS AMD GHILESIBH WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE LIVESTOCK SHOWS. A RBQ
FOR M^fHS^SHIP I S TO HAVE SHOWH A BLUK RIBBON DAIRY AMIMAL. THE PURPOSE OP THE (L UB I S TO WHAT A COW I S 4 - H GLUB BtS
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EACH BOTH PARSHTS ASD CRXWmi!t
UPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE AHD PRODUGK.
AMD GIRLS GIVE DEMONSTRATIONS OS THE FUJfDAMSMTALS W BAIRUISG AT EACH mSSim. )HE KSSTIJP II* TWO YEARS* IHTEREST I H THIS KWILY. CHARtSS, HAS MIIS1O THKRE�S AMOTSBR GREAT I T ' S BASKETBALL,..,AW
WOULDN*T IT SE WITH TWO GIRLS OS THE TEAM. :if FACT KAYE WHO PIu^YS FORWARD HAS A RECORD Iff GAMES THIS YEAR OF 3 3 POINTS PER GAME* ,Y PLAYS GUARD. AMD F I S H . THE WHOLE FAMILY L U E S TO
THEY BELONG �0 TH8 HSSA BAPTIST
CJaURCH WHERE MRS, GARTER TEACHES BOTH SUNDAY IHOOL AMD TRAINIBG UNION AND I S ASSISTANT GHOIK
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LEADS*.. THEY BELONG TQ THE FARM BUREAU AND THE COUNTY DAIRY ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION, LET MB FOR A MOMENT MENTION THE EARLY YEARS OF MB.. AND MRS, CARTER�S LIVES. C H A R T S WAS BORN ON A PARK NEAR BQGALUSI, * v : LOUISIANA. 'AFTER HIGH SGHOOL HE WORKED FOR GAYI GAYLORD COMTAIBBR CORPORATION IN THEIR BOX flAWl FOR A Y M R AND THEM WENT TO MOBILE WHERE HE WORKED IN THE PAPER INDUSTRY ANOTHER 12 YEARS IT WAS BECAUSE HK (JOT TIRED OF SHIFT WORK THAT THEY CAME TO THEIR WALTHALL COUNTY FARM. MRS, GARTJ3I WAS RAISED HKAR BQ�ALtfSA AND SHE AND GHAB HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER MOST OF THEIR Z.XVKS. THS5 WERE MnRRIED IN 1940- JOST E^FORl GOING TO MOBII�i I GOUU) TELL YOU MTJGH MOfiB BUT 1*2) RATHER THEY TELL YOU, SO NOW, HBRE'S FORREST COX TO ASK THEU A F1W QUESTIONS WEIGH WILL HELPT TO TELL HORK OP THEIR PROBLiSMS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. FORREST ���. 1. WHAT WAS BIS&EST DIFFICULTY IN OWShllUm MM LAND & HOW DID YOU OVERCOME Iff FINANGIJ�*.� 2 , WHAT DOKS POOREST COW IM HERD PRODUGE fODAYt 3� WHAT IS YOUR PRODUCTION GOAL? k* WHAT HAS BEEN KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS? 5 . MBS. CARTER, WHAT HAS HELPED YOU MOST IV IOMEMAKIM0 6. ASK GIRLS ABOUT HOBBIES AND PLANS AFTER HIGH
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