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I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I M VERY GRATEFUL TO SCOTT COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT, MR. W.R. CAIN, FOR HIS VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WE SALUTE TODAY AND IN GOING WITH ME TO THE FARM TO OBTAIN THE STORY I AM ABOUT TO TELL. THIS I S THE S TORY
OF TWO BROTHERS WIIO FARM TOGETHER OH THE OLD HOME PLACE WHERE THEY GREW TO YOUNG MNHOOD, I N THE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY OF SCOTT COUNTY. SLIDE FARM,! HOUSJ THIS I S THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS. VERNER LEE GATEWOOD AND MR. AND MRS. JOHN GATEWOOD, WHO FARM 270 ACRES TOGETHER ABOUT FOUR MILES WEST OF HILLSBORO. THIS I S THE LOVELY HOME THAT
BELONGS TO THE MOTHER OF THESE TWO SCOTT COUNT! FARMERS. I T I S THE HOME IN WHICH BOTH BOYS GRI
UP AND WHERE MR AND MRS. VERNER GATHfOOD AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN LIVE WITH VERNER AND JOHN'S MOTHER. MR. AND MRS. VERNER GATEWOOD WERE MARRIED IN 1 9 5 0 . AT THE TIME MRS. VSRNEK
GATEWOOD WAS THE HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT IN SCOTT COUNTY. WHEN I ASKED HOW SHE MET VERNER
SHE RECALLED THE VERNER �S BROTHER WAS COURTIN� COUNTY AGENT CAIN�S SECRETARY AND BROUGHT VERNER ALONG ON A DOUBLE DATE AND THEY STARTED COURTEN1 THEMSELVES, AND I T ENDED IN TilEIR
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MARRIAGE IN 1 9 5 0 .
MRS. VERNER GATEW00D CQNTIM)]
AS HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT I I THE COUNTY FOR ONE YEAR THEN THEY SETTLED DOWN TO FULL TIME FARMING AND M S . GATSWOOB BECAME A FULL FLEDGED FARM WIFE. SHE HAD G^OWN UP ON A FARM NEAR THEY
NQXAPATER, MISSISSIPPI IN WINSTON COUNTY.
HAVE TWO CHILDREN, JANICE, AGE 5 AND VERNER KAY, AGE 4 . SLIDE FARM.2
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MR. AND MRS. JOHN GATEWOOD LIVE
JUST UP THE ROAD ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE IN 1] IMS LOVELY LITTLE HOME. MRS. JOHN GATEWOOD
|GREW UP IN FOREST, TBE COUNTY SEAT OF SCOTT COUNTY. THEY HAVE ONE DAUGHTER, MARIANNE.
iMRS. JOHN GATEWOOD TEACHES SCHOOL AND JOHN WORKS WITH BROTHER VERNER ON THEIR 270 ACRE FARM. SLIDE CATTLE VEKNJSK AND JOHN GATEWOOD RECALL THAT
THEIR FATHER ALWAYS RAISED CATTLE, A LOT MORE THAN THEY HAVE TODAY AND THEY RAISED QUITE A LOT OF COTTON AND CORN. TODAY THEIR COTTON ALLOTMENT I S ONLY 1 5 ACRES AND THEIR FARM
PROGRAM I S A DIVERSIFIED ONE OF CATTLE, PASTURE ROW CROPS AND TIMBER. VERNER AND JGRN�S FA1HBR
PASSED AWAY IN 1 9 5 1 $ BUT BEFORE HIS DEATH HE USUALLY HAD 100 BROOD COWS ON THE FARM, TODAY
VERNER AND JOHN HAVE 50 BROOD COWS BUT ARE BUILDING THEIR HERD BACK TO WHAT I T ONCE WAS.
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THEY TURNED UP WITH BANGS IN THEIR HERD A FEff YEARS AGO AND HAD TO DISPOSE OF A LARGE NUMBER. SLIDE FARSU CATT HOWEVER, TODAY THEIR HERD I S BANGS FREE AND THE ARE OK THE WAY BACK UP, TO 100 HEAD OF BROOD COWS. THEY FOLLOW A C0MIE1CIAL COW AID CALF
PROGRAM AND FEED OUT A FEW OF THEIR LATE CALVES SLIDE BULL WHILE THEIR COWS ARE ALL GRABS COWS THEY DO BREED TO A REGISTERED SHORTHORN BULL AND HAVE FOR MANY YEARS. THEY GROW ALL THBI1 O N FEED W
0 1 THE FAI?M AND CRUSH THEIR GRAIN AND MIX I T SLIDE FARIj.6
CALVLS
RIGHT ON THE FARM.
THEY CULL THEIR HERD
CLOSELY GETTING OUT ALL THE OLD COWS AND NONPRODUCERS. THEY ARE SAVING ONLY THEIR BEST THESE ARE A FEJf
HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT,
OF THE HEIFERS BEING SAVED TO ADD TO THE HERD. THEY CREEP FEED ALL THEIR CALVES AND USE BACK RUBS FOR PARASITE CONTROL, THEIR MAIN JOB
TODAY BN THE LIVESTOCK PROGRAM I S TO BUILD THE HERD AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND THIS THEY ARE DOING MORE EVERY TEAR. SLIDE Fi FEEDER CATTLE AS I SAID A MOMENT
AGO, THE LATE CALVES ARE FED OUT FOR MARKET THEY PUT OUT ABOUT 3 5 ACRES OF CORN EACH YEAR AND I T MAKES ABOUT 45 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE* THEY USE HYBRID SEED AND PICK IT ALL AND FEED I T ON THE FARM. PASTURE FOR THE CATTLE CONISTS
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OF ABOUT 140 ACRgS OF PERMANENT PASTURE, KOSTLT CARPET GRASS, WHITE DUTCH, BERMUDA AND LESPEDE2
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THEIR PASTURE LAND I S BROKEN UP INTO FOUR DIFFERENT PASTURES AN^THEY ROTATE THEIR GRAZING, ALL PASTURES ARE LIMED AID CLIPPED TEMPORARY GRAZING CONSISTS
FOR WEED CONTROL.
OF 30 ACRES OF OATS AND RYE GRASS MICH I S GRAZED UNTIL AFRIL AND THEM TURNED UNDER B�FGRS PLANTING THE LAM) TO M I S CORF OK COTfOI OATS FOLLOW CORN AND COTTON IN THE FALL AHD I COTTON Mil) COW AGAIN FOLLOW THE OATS IN THE SPRINGo ALL OATS MM NITRATED, VERNER AND
I JOHN GAISf O0D HAVE ANOTHER 18 ACRES OF OATS WHICH THEY COJNBINE FOR SEED M D CUT SOME IN THI DOUGH STAGE FOR HAY, EACH YEAR THEY BALES ABOUT 400 BALES OF LESPEDEZA AND MILLET FOR HAY. THE CATTLE GET SOME HAY IN THE HIVTHtTXME
AND ALL DRY COWS GET CORN iflTH THE FATTENING CATTLE GETTING MEAL AID COTTONSEED HULLS.
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VERIER AND JOHN ALSO RAISE A PBH" PIGS EACH YEAI FROM ONE BROOD SOW, THEY DO BUY A FEf* FEEDER
SHOATS TO FEED FOR MARKET BUT MOST OF THEIR HOG RAISING I S JUST FOR HOME USE. MOST OF
THE HOGS BOUGHT ARE JUST TO PICK UP THE CORN WHICH THE COWS WASTE. ALL FARMING I S DOHE
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W O TRACTORS EQUIPMENT. SLIDE FARMJU?
M D THE NECESSARY R W CROP O THEY HIRE THEIR CQMBI1MB AND HAY WATER FOR THE LIVESTOCK I S
BALING DGHE.
SUPPLIED FROM THREE PONDS AND ONE CREEK THAT RUNS FOR TWO M I E S THROUGH THEIR MAIN PASTURE AREA, WHILE THIS PARTICULAR POND I S USED FOR
WATERING LIVESTOCK IT HAS A RECREATION US TOO WHICH I ' L L TELL YOU ABOUT A LITTLE IA TER. AT ONE TBIB VHSRNER AND JOHN GATis�OOD*S FATHSR
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! RAISED AS MUCH AS 7$ ACRES OP COTTON INSTEAD I OF THE PRESENT ALLOTMENT OF 1$ ACRES. THEIR
! FATHER RUN THIS GIN FOR MM YEARS, VERNER SAYS HE HAS WORKED IN I T 6INCE HE IAS OLD EIOUGH TO mm WHAT TO DO. HE AND J O M HAVE
KEPT I T I I OPERATION SINCE THEIR FATHER'S DEATH, VERNER AND JCffif MAKE ABOUT A BALB TO 0 1 THEIR COTTON AND FERTILIZE EIGHT ACRES OF THS CQTTC
THE ACRE MMMSm
AKB POISON AS NEEDED,
I S HANDLER ON THE SHARES AID VERNER AND JOHN HANDLE THE REST WITH SOME DAY LABOR, THEY DO
NOT PLAN TO PUT ANY OF THEIR LIMITED ACREAGE I N THE SOIL BANK. SLIDE JOHN AND VERNER GATES^OOS
HAVE 60 ACRES OF THEIR LAND IH GOOD PINE TIMBER, AID VERNER HAS ANOTHER 40 ACRES OF HIS
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OWN.
THEY THIN THEIR TIMBER PROTECT IT PROM
F I R E , DO SOME RELEASE WORK, AID SELECTIVELY |HARVEST. THEY ALSO HAVE SOME GOOD MERCHANTABLE THEIR LAND I S FMCED AND THE nOUSE I I WHICH VEHNER AID
HARDWOOD TIMBER, CROSS FENCED.,
H I S FAMILY LITE WITH M S . GATBtfOOD WAS BUIIf I N THE LAST TEN YEARS BY THE BOYS AND THEIR FATHER AND WAS BUILT FROM TIMBER OFF THE PIACE, SLIDE FABML13 DRAlNA&fii DITCH ONE OF Tills REALLY IMPORTANT PROJECTS WORKED OUS j BY VBRNER AMD JOHN IAS BEEN PR0PE5 DRAINAGE OF I ! TliEIR LAND. THEY USE V DITCHES AND PUT IN TWO
! DRAIKACE DITCHES LAST YEAR AND THIS OIE THIS ; YEAR.. TitEIR IAND I S ALL TERRACED AND ALL HILL FOR MANY YEARS
LAND IS FARMED ON THE CONTOUR,
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JOHN AND VERNER'S FATHER OPERATED THIS COMISARY AT THE FARM, MRS, GATEWOOD TOOK IT
OVER SHORTLY BEFORE HER HUSBAND'S DEATH AND S T I L L OPERATES I T TODAY, OUTSIDE OF HER
GRANDCHILDREN I THINK SHE LOYES WORKING IN HS? COMISARY BEST.. MRS VERNER GATEWOOD AND MRS.'
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JOHN GATEffOOD BOTH PUT HEAVY EMPHASIS ON POOD PRODUCTION. THEY EACH HAVE A FLOCK OF
CHICKENS FOR EGGS AND HEAT AND BOTH HAVE A F I N E GARDEN FROM WHICH THEY AMOUNTS OF VEGETABLES EACH SEASON. LARGE
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THIS I S M S . CHICKENS,
VERNER GATEffOOD FEEDING HER
BESIDES THE EGGS FOR HOME USE SHE BOTH MRS, JOHN
S E L L S A FEW FROM TIME TO TIME,
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JGATEWOOD, M16II WE SEE H E S S , AND MRS VERIER GAIEtfOOD HATE HOME FOOD FREEZERS AND THEY F R E E Z E MUCH OF THE FOOD THE PRESERVE. HOWEVER,
THEY BOTH LOVE TO CAN I N JARS Aim EACH PUTS UP ABOUT 3 0 0 JARS OP F R U I T , VEGETABLES, JAMS f J E L L I E S , PICRELS A I D SO FORTH EACH YEAR,
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M R S . VERIER GATEWOOD LOVES TO SEW AM) MAKES HOST OF THE CLOTHES FOR HER W O YOUNGSTERS. S H E ALSO MAKES MOST OF HER BRAPPEEIES AND �CURI&INS. SHE LOVES TO COOK A TO WORK IN EM
FLOWER BEDS, AKD SHRUBBERY,
I N FACT, FLOWERS
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A R E HER HOBBY.
HER CHILDREN, JANICE AND VERNBt
RAY LOVE TO HAVE TEA PARTIES AND PLAY I N THE HOUSE AND AROUND THE FARM. VERNER AND JOHN
BOTH LIKE TO HUNT AND P I S H WHEN TIME WILL
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I MENTIOED A WHILE AGO THAT THE LAKE I T I S A TEN
WE SAW WAS A RECREATION AREA.
A C R E LAKE, BUILT BY THE BOYS AND THEIR FATHER I N 1 9 4 5 AS A RECREATION AREA? I F FACT, A .
BROTHER WHO LIVES I N JACISON AND A SISTER WHO L I V E S I N FOREST f EACH HATE A COTTAGE ON THE
LAKE AND SPEND MANY OF T H S I S WEEKENDS I1ERB.
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, THIS LARGE BARBECUE P I T STANDS BETWEEN THE TWO ICOTTAGES M B THE WHOLE FAMILY LOVES TO SPEND TH I TKBIR LEISURE TIME AT THEIR LAKE. S U C J E MRS. I JOHN GATEffOGD I S TIftCHING SCHOOL TCDAY, JCHH VOLUNTEERED TO STAY HOME AND KEiP THE STORE GOD� AND TEE WORK DONE SO MR, AKD M S . VBRiffiB
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GATGKOOD COULD MAKE THE TRIP TO JACISOH TO BE WITH US. HOWEVER, I DID HAHT YOU TO SEE MR.
AND UBS. JOHN QATWOiB AID DAUGHTER M&RRIA2JNE
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| SO HERE THEY ARE.
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i J d l l GATBWOOD'S HOME I S TliE LITTLE COUNTRY | CHURCH MICH THESE TWO FAMILY'S ATTMD, I T I S I THE MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHHSCH. BOTH FAMILIES
ARE ACTIVE I F THEIR CHURCH AND ATTSHD RBGUIA RL1 VERIER I S A DEACOH AND THAIHIITG WflON DIRECTOK. MS. VERNER GATEIfOOD I S THE TEACHER OF THE XXS5
LADYfS CLASS, SiilCRETARY OF THE CHURCH AID PROGRAM CHAIIBttH OF THE W.M.U. MRS. JOHH
GATEWOOD TEACHES THE INTERMEDIATE SUNDAY SCHOOI C U S S AND I S PAST PRESIDENT OF THE W.M.U. CAJIEKA ON FAMILY, MRS. VB1NER GAT�rOOD I S ALSO ACTIVE Of TilE LILLIAN HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB AND I S PROJECT LEADER FOR TEE CLUB. MRS, JOHN GATMOOD THE GATEJfOODS ARE
TEACHES SCHOOL AT RINGGGLD,
MEMBERS OF BiB MISSISSIPPI LIVESTOCK PRODUCER*!
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ASSOCIATION AND YEHISR I S A FORMER A . S . C , CQMITTEEM&N. THIS I S TRULY A PI2JE BROTHER
FARM mRTIEKSHIP STORY AID I AM PROUD TO TBLL I I T TO Y*; TODAY. OP XHE FAMILY AM OF I T . NW, I M T YW M MEET SOME
HEAR THEM TBLL 0TB.ER PARTS
