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Howard Langfitt
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Feb. 12, I960
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I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNiai* ' ' * 1 i>n i�^ DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO HESHOBA COUNTY AGENT MR, 0,S, (BILL) NORTON AND ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT JOE FULTON FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH ME TO THEIR FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO TELL,
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THIS IS THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES LEONARD DUNCAN AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY OF NESHOBA COUNTY, ABOUT SEVEN AND A HALF MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILADELPHIA, JUS3 OFF HIGHWAY 19 WHERE THEY OWN AND FARM 300 ACliJ LEONARD DUNCAN GREW UP ON THE SAME FARM WHICH HE FARMS TODAY. IT IS THE OLD FAMILY HOME PLACI
AND HIS MOTHER LIVES WITH THEM IN THE OLD FAMILl
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LEONARD DUNCAN'S LOVELY WIFE ALSO GREW SHE HAD MARRIED
UP AROUND THIS SAME COMMUNITY.
AND WAS LIVING ON THE ADJOINING FARM WHEN HER HUSBAND PASSED AWAY ABOUT 1 9 W LEAVING HER WITH A YOUNG SON EDWIN TO RAISE. NEARLY SIX SLIDE FARM-2 HAH & WOMAN YEARS LATER SHE AND LEONARD DUNCAN WERE MARRIED IN 1953 AND HER SON BECAME HIS SON AND NOW IT IS A FINE FAMILY OF THREE DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS. LEONARD DUNCAN HAS FARMED ALL HIS LIFE
EXCEPT FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN MILITARY SERVICE FROM 19U2 TO l9M�. H H I L 1 9 W
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RAISED ONLY COTTON AND CORN,
IT WAS IN THAT
YEAR THAT BE STARTED BUILDING A LITTLE PASTORS
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FOR THE SIX OR EIGHT COWS HE HAD BOUGHT WHEN HE CAME OUT OF SERVICE AT THE BEGINNING OF X9^6� HE QUIT COTTON ALTOGETHER IH 19if9 AND BEGAN TO CONCENTRATE ON A GRASSLAND PROGRAM RAISING GOOD B1SF. HE STILL RAISES CORN SOHE YEARS IN THE
BUT MOSTLY USES RENTED LAND FOR GORN.
Bf^GINNING ALL LEONARD DUIJGAN'S COWS WERE DAIRY COWS. SLIDE CATTI HE BRED THEM TO A BEEF BULL AND BEGAN TO
SAVE SOME OF THE BETTER HEIFERS FOR HIS BROOD COW HERD. DURING ALL THE YEARS HE B&SN'T BOUGHS OVER EIGHT OR TEN COWS, HOST OF THE HERD GROWTH HAS BEEN B� SAVING HIS BEST HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT. LEONARD DUNCAN FOLLOWS A COMMERCE COW AND CALF PROGRAM AND SELLS THE BULK OF HIS
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CALVES MILK-FAT OFF THE COW. HE GETS ABOUT A 95 FERCENT CALF CROP AND IF A COW DOESN'T SRIN0 A GOOD CALF HE GETS RID OF SEE. HIS HERD IS
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BANGS FREB AND HE CALFHOOD VACCINATES EVERYTHING ON THE PLACE. IN THE PAST LEONARD HAS M E N FEEDING OUT ABOUT 30 OP HIS LATE CALVES BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO CONTINUE THIS PRACTICE. HE HAS SLIDE FARM--7 BULLS BEEN DISSATISFIED WITH THE WEIGHT OF HIS CALVES AT WEANING TIME AND FOR THAT REASON IS DOING
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SOME TEST BREEDING IN HIS HERD, HE WANTS & 500 POUND CALF AT WEANING TIME ASD SINCE HE HASN'T GOTTEN ENOUGH OF THESE IN THE PAST HE HAJ PUT FIVE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF BULLS IN HIS PASTURES 30 AS TO COMPARE THE RATE OF GAIH OF THEIR CALVES. HE HAS TWO POLLED HEREFORD W&MS� A SHORTHORN, BLACK ANGUS AHD SAHTA GEBTRUDJS WHICH HE BOUGHT FROM THE PERFORMANCE TEST BULL SALE AT THE COLLEGE LAST YEAR, WHEN LLGNABD FINDS WHICH BREED BRINGS HIM THE BEST GAINING SLIDE FARH-8 calves CALVES HE HILL SETTLE OK THAT BREEDING FOR HIS HERD, the total herd consists of 193 HEAD INCLUDING 98 BROOD COM3. HE HAS CULLED THE HERD PRETT/ CLOSE BUT SINCE HE HAS AQUIRED AN ADDITIONAL 100 ACRES OF LAND THIS IBM THAT HE HASN'T HAD LEONARD SATS HE HAS KEPT SOME COWS THAT HE SHOULD HSVB CULLED. HE SAYS HE WILL SLIDE FARH-9 CALVES CULL CLOSER FROM NOW ON AS HE FIGURES HE�S ABOUT AT HIS MAXIMUM FOR THE LAND HE HAS. THESE ARE 12 HEIFERS HE IS SAVINS, EXSSKXXKSQOCTKXaKRaSE ZXXTKXXKSKSERBBMB^ AND HE MAY SAVE TEH MORI. LEONARD HAS TEN DIFFERENT PASTURES FOR ROTATION SLIPS FARH-3,0 OF GRAZING AND HE OREEP FEEB3 ALL THE CALVES UNTIL THE GRASS GOMES UP. THIS OREEP IS LOCATED! IN A PINE TIMBER STAND WHICH THEX USE FOR
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SHELTER.
IT IS IDALLY SITUATED HETWEEM TWO
PASTURE AREAS. THIS 13 THE ONE THE HEIFERS HE IS SAVING USE. THEY ARE KEPT SKPERATE FHOM THE REST OF THE HERD. EACH SEAR LEONARD COMBINES ABOUT TEH TO TWENTY ACRES OF OATS FOR SEED AND
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FOR THE CREEP.
PERMANENT PASTURE CONSISTS OF
200 AORES OF CARPET, DALLIS AID BERMUDA OKASS WHITE DUTCH CLOVER AND SOME GRIMSQN GLOVER WITH RY� ORASS. LEONARD IS OHS OP THE TVA FERTILIZE!! TEST DEMONSTRATORS AHD USES A LOT OF LIME AHD PHOSPHATE ON HIS Li HE TRIES TO PUT AT LEAST
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A TON OP LIME TO THE ACRE EVERY FIVE TEARS, HB CLIPS HIS PASTURES REGULARLY FOR IKED COHTEOL AND USES SOME 2-^-D CHEMICAL FOR DOCK AND LJKKS IT VERY MUCH. HE PUTS UP PASTURE CLIPPINGS FOR HAY AS WELL AS OAT HAY EACH YEAR, HE DOES
CUSTOM COMBINING AHD BALING IN THE AREA AHD HAS
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FOUR TO SIX THOUSAND BALLS OF HAY WHICH HE FSSDS FREE CHOICE EACH WINTER, THIS IS FOUR ACRES OF
RESCUE WHICH HE USES FOR EARLY GRAZIN8. HIS TEMPOARY GRAZING CONSISTS OF OATS AHD WHEAT*., OHLY FOUR ACRES OF WHEAT. HE PUTS OUT 70 ACRES SLIDE FARM-llj, OATS OF OATS AHD GRAZES SOME OF IT ALL THE WAY AHD TAKES OFF THE REST AM) SAVES IT FOR HAY AND SBBD TWENTY ACRES OF THE OATS IS SOD SEEDED AS YOtT
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tmti& iw T U B riuiMAKn-wx rAi>TUii&. ax xtm THESE MEN YQU�VE BEEN SEEING IH THE PICTURES ARE COUNTY AGENT, C.S. (BILL) NORTON, LEONARD, AND ASSOCIATE COUNTS: AGENT JOE PULTON. LEONARD IS
ENROLLED IN THE BALANCED PARM AND HOME PROGRAM OP THE EXTENSION SERVICE AND HAS BEEN SINCE IT WAS STARTED IN THE COUNTY IN 1 9 ^ ,
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UNDER THE
PROGRAM HE HAS WORKED VERY CLOSE WITH JOE FULT0H AND HIS MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED
BREEDING, PASTURE IMPROVEMENT AND SOIL TESTING, HE TESTS ALL HIS SOIL AND FERTILIZES AGCORDING TO SOIL NEEDS. IH THE DISTANCE YOU CAN SEE ONI SOURCE OP WATER SUPPLY FOR CATTLE, THIS PARTICULAR POND IS ALSO LEONARD'S PISHING HOLE.
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WATER FOR LIVESTOCK IS SUPPLIED FROM POUR STOCK PONDS AND A LIVE STREAM THAT RUNS MOST ALL THE TIME. THIS BARN AH) THE HOUSE ARE THE ONLY
BUILDINGS THAT WERE ON THE PLACE WHEN SBONARD TOOK OVER I1?�S OPERATION. THE BARN IS USED MOSTLY FOR HAY STORAGE.
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LEONARD ALSO HAS I. 4O
ACRES IN PINE PINE TIMBER WHICH HE THINS AND , PROTECTS FROM FIRE AND SELECTIVELY HARVEST HE HAS CLEARED MOST OP THE HARDWOOD OFF THE LAND THERE WAS ABOUT 20 ACRES OP IT. HE HAS ALSO
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OPENED UP ANOTHER 1 0 ACRES THAT HAD GROWN UP * BESIDES SAVING VALUBALE TIMBER HE ALSO USES TBS
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TIMBERBREAKS FOB SHELTER FOR GATTLE. ALL LEONARD DUNCAN'S LAND IS FENCED AND CROSS FENCED WITH TREATED POSTS. HE IS A COMPLETELY SLIDE FARM-19 MACHINE SHED MECIHHISED FARMER AND HAS BUILT THIS STORAGE SHED TO PROT> HIS MACHINERY. HE ALSO SAS A FARM WORKSHOP BUILT IN HERE AND DOES MOST OF HIS OWN FARM REPAIRS EXCEPT MAJOR OVERHAUL. LEONARD HAS TWO TRACTORS, BALER, COMBINE, AHD ^LL THE EQUIPMENT HE NEEDS TO OPERATE HIS FARM PROGRAM. I COULD TELL MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS FINE
FARM STORY BUT MRS, DINCAN IS CARRYING OUT AH SLIDE FARM-20 FBMhZER EQUALLY FINE HOMEMAKING PROGRAM, AHD I WAJff TO TELL OP IT, SO WK�LL LEAVE THE PARK STORY AT THIS POINT. FROM THEIR TWO ACRES OR MORE OF
SEASONAL GARDEN, THE POULTRY SUPPLY ANJJ PORK AND BEEP RAISED ON THE FARM SHE EAGH YEAR FREEZE ABOUT 2,700 POUNDS OF FOOD FOR THE FAMILY�S USE, SLIDE FARM~21 CANNED POOD IN ADDITION SHE PUTS UP ANOTHER i^OO QUARTS OF FOOD IN JARS....THINGS THAT DON*T LEHD THSMSELVE WELL TO FREEZING OR THINGS THE FAMILY PREFERS CANNED. THOUGH FIVE YEAR OLD MARY ANNITTE AND THREE YEAR OLD PATSY ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH YET TO HELP WITH THE GANNING THEY HAVE A REAL INTEREST IN ANYTHING 3HERE MOTHER DOES.... INCLUDING THE SLIDE DAILY JOB OF COOKING FOR THIS BIG FAMILY.
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MRS* DUNCAN LOVES TO COOK AMD SPENDS A LOT OF TIME IN HER KITCHEN, SHE SAYS COOKING IS HSR
HOBBY AND IF SHE HAS SOMS,SPARE TIME SHE HEADS FOR THE KITCHEN TO SEE WHAT SH$ CAN DREAM UP IN THE WAY OF CULINARY ART, MRS, DUNCAN SAYS
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SHE ALSO LIKES TO SEW BUT DOESN'T GET TO �0 AS MUCH AS SHE'D LIKE BECAUSE HSR HADS ARE FULL WITH THE CHILDREN, MOST OF HER SEWIN� NOW IS CONFINED TO MENDING THINGS FOR THE CHILDREN* > THEY HAVE RE-WGRXBD THEIR PRESENT HOME DURING " THE YEARS IN WHICH THEY HAVE LIVED IN IT BB3F I* IS THEIR HOPK TO SOON BUILD A NEW HOME. DURING THE COURSE OF THE OTHER AFTERNOON AT THE DUMGAN
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FARM WE HAD PICTURES OF MOST OP THE FAMILY EXCEPT THE rJJDEST AND YOUNGEST CHILDREN, THE | BABY, 15 MONTH OLD LUCY WAS ASLEEPt TWO YEAS OLD SON SKIPPY WAS WITH HIS SISTERS IN THE KITCHEN, BUT 16 YEAR OLD EDWIN HARDY HADN�T ARRIVED HOME FROM SCHQoL UNTIL JUST AS WE WERE .At�Xm OUT THE DOOR TO LEAVE SO I SNAPPED A HURRIED PICTURE OF HIM AND HIS MOTHER ON THE FRONT STEPS. MR* AND MRS. LEONARD DUNCAN ARE
CAMERA ON FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY AND MRS. DUNCAN IS A MEMBER OF THE ALTER SOCIETY S
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THEY ARE MEMBERS OP THE NESH01A COUNTY FARM BUREAU AND LEONARD IS A DIRECTOR. THEY BELOH0
TO THEIR RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB AND LEONARD IS A PAST PRESIDENT. HS HAS HELD THE
JOBS OP BOTH COUNTY AND COMMUNITY A.S.O. COMMITTESMAN. COUNTY AGENT BILL NORTON AND
ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT SOE FULTON SAY OP THIS FAMILY THAT THEY ARE LEADERS IN THEIR COMMUNITY FOR ALL THINGS, WHETHER If BE THE WELFARE OF OH PAHILY OR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. THIS, THEY M X , IS A REAL COMMUNITY SPIRITED FAMILY. I COULD
TELL MUCK MORE, BUT NOW I WANT YOU TO MEET THE LEONARD DUNCAN FAMILY OF NtiSHOSA COUNTY, 1. 2. WHAT ARK FUTURE PLAIS IH FARMIMOf WHAT OWE PRACTICE DO YOU FEKL HAS HELPED YOU! FARM PROGRAM HOST? 3. WHY DO YOU CONCERN YOURSELF WITH YOUR COMMUNITY TO THE EXTENT YOU DO? .
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MRS., WHAT HAS HELPED YOU MOST IN H0MEMAKI8S1 WHAT DO YOU WANT IH A HEW HOME? WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR YOUR CHILDREN? EDWIN, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO AFTER SCHOOL? JOE, WHAT HAS THIS FAMILY HEAHT TO YOUR WORK?
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