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Howard Langfitt
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WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM >EEPLY GRATEFUL TO FRANKLIN COUNTY AGENT JOHN 30X AND ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT JOHNNY MONROE ?0R THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH S!E TO THIS FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY
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OF MR. AND MRS. WILMER W. GODBOLD AND THEIR DAUGHTER WHO LIVE ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF MBADVILLE, MISSISSIPPI IN THE GODBOLD COMMUNITY. THEIR 440 ACRE FARM IS ABOUT SEVEN MILES SOUTH CF CASEYVILLE. WILMER GODBOLD IS FARMING THE CLD HOME PLACE, WHERE HIS FATHER, GRAND FATHER AND GREAT GRANDFATHER FARMED BEFORE HIM. IN
F> THE LAND WfiS HOMESTEADED BY HIS GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER. THIS IS WILMSR AJ� HIS FATHER,
M U C,N. GODBOLD, WHO STILL LIVES JUST UP THE
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R)AD IN THIS HOUSE WHERE WILMER WAS BORN, WILMES XI ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN AND THE ONLY ONE THAT'S A FARMER. HE ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL AT MCCALL AND
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LUCIEN AND GRADUATED FROM OOPIAH-LINCOLN JUNIOR COLLEGE. FROM HIS GRADUATION IN 1935 UNTIL WQRLE WR TWO BROKE OUT Hii WORKED ON A DREDGE BOAT �N THE FIRST YEM OF THE WAS
TIE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
HI WORKED FOR LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT IN CALIFORNIA AND TIjEN WENT INTO SERVICE FHOM 1942 TO 1946..WHEN
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GODBOLD CAMS OUT OP SERVICE HE WORKED IN JACKSON FOR THE P.W. FITCH 0GMPANY FOR FIVE EEARS. IT WAS WHILE HE WAS DOING THIS THAT HE SLIDE FARMWH-3 7 AMILY SET MISS DO0IA MILLEB...A FARM GIRL FROM NEAR 5ALLIS IN ATTALA COUNTY...WHO WAS WORKING IN A DOCTOR'S OFFICE IN JACKSON. SHE AND WILMER ATE THEIR MEALS AT THE SAME BOARDING HOUSE AND IT 4AB THERE THEY MET AND FELL IN LOVE. THEY WERE CARRIED IN 1950, ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE THEY CAME JACK TO THE FARM. THEY HAVE ONE YOUNGSTER, A JHARMING DAUGHTER...MISS LAURA, WHO IS SEVEN YEAR; SLIDE
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IT WAS ABOUT 1951 THAT WILMER DECIDED HIS
HdUSB ^OLKS WERE'NT GETTING ANY YOUNGER AND THAT THEY HEEDED HIM AT HOME...THEN TOO, HE WAS TIRED OF WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE...HE WANTED TO BE HIS OWN BOSS. THE HOME PLACE WAS 160 ACRES AND WILMSJ JIAD BOUGHT THE REST OF HIS LAND BEFORE HE CAME 3[OMB TO FARM. IT DOESN'T JOIN THE HOME PLACE AND ::S MOSTLY TIMBER. WILMER CHUB BACK TO FRANKLIN
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(IOUNTY AHEAD OF HIS WIFE. HE CAME IN THE SPRING JJiD PLANTED A CROP AND BUILT THEIR LOVELY HOME AWL 1 HEN MRS. GODBOLD JOINED HIM IN THE FALL. WILMBR C ODBOLD FOUND A HOUSE HE LIKED AND DREW A ROUGH 2 KETCH OF IT AND HE AND A CARPENTER WORKED FROM 5 HE MEASUREMENTS OF THAT SKETCH, MAKING A FEW
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CATTLE, CORN, OATS AMD TIMBER. TODAY IT IS CATTLE, GATS AND TIMBER. QUIT RAIDING CORN Iff I9$k BECAUSE THE GROWS AND COONS DID TOO MUGfc OF THE HARVESTING . WILMER SLIDE FARMCAff GODBOLD HAD CATTLE WHEN HE WENT INTO THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY IN 1942. AT 3!HAT TIME EVERYTHING ON THE PLAGE WAS RED DEVON BREED, HIS FATHER JARED FOR THEM WHILE HE WORKED AWAY FROM HOME. WILMER RECALLS THAT AT ONE TIME HE AND HIS FATUB BAD OM OF THE LARGEST RED DEVON HERDS IN THE STATE. THEY STILL HAVE A NUMBER OF THEM IN THE pRESENT DAY HERD. HE LIKES THEM BEGAUSE, AS HE 3AYS, THEY ARE GOOD MILK STOCK MMD GOOD BEEF COWS SLIDE FARM-8 CATTLE AW TOO, THEY ARE GOOD HUSTLERS. TODAY WILMER JODBOLD HAS 60 HEAD OF CATTLE...33 OF THEM BROOD 20WS....2ij. HEAD REGISTERED. HE FOLLOWS A C0MMSRG: <JOW AND CALF PROO/RAM SELLING HIS CALVES MILK FAT )FF THE COW..,AND BF COURSE, SELLS HIS BEST ISTERKD STOCK FOR BREEDING STOCK. HE HAS BOBGI SLIDE FARM-9 BULL #IVE HEAD FROM CIRCLE M RANCH AT SBNATOBIA, INCLUDING THIS GMR BULL...A REHL TOP QUALITY TOLLED HEREFORD BULL AS IS EVIDENCED BY THE KIND SLIDE FARM-10 CALVES F CALVES HE PRODUCES. WILMBR GETS A 9%% CALF CROP AND CALFHOOD VACCINATES. THE HERD IS BANGS IREE. WILMER GQDBOLD USED TO FEED OUT SOME OF IIS CALVES BUT NOT NOW...THE MARKET IS TOO GOOD S
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SELLING THEM OFF THE COW TO PAY TO PUT FEED INTO EHEM. HOWEVER, HIS FUTURE ROUTE WILL BE PETERMIH f THE MARKET AND FEED SITUATION. FOR PARASITE AMD INSECT CONTROL WILMER SPRATS HIS GATTIE TWIOE IN THE SPRING AND TWICE IN THE FALL. HE DUSTS FOR FLIES AND USES BAOKRUBS IN THE PASTURES. IN SLIDE FARM-U PASTURE THE WINTER MONTHS HE FEEDS HIS CATTLE CORN AND GOTTONSEED MEAL AND HULLS AND HAY. PERMANENT PASTURE CONSISTS OF 180 ACRES OF BERMUDA AND D A U DALLIS GRASS, WHITE DURCH GLOVER, BAHAIA GRASS FESCUE AND LESPEDEZA..,ALL OF IT HIGHLY IMPROVED. FOR FIVE YEARS WILMER GGDBOLD*S FARM HAS BEEN A TVA TEST UNIT DEMONSTRATION FARM IN THE APPLICATJ SLIDE FARH-12 WATER & PASTURE AND USE OF FERTILIZERS. HE TESTS HIS SOIL AND FERTILIZES ACCORDING TO SOIL NEEDS. HE CLIPS HIS PASTURES FOR WEED CONTROL AND STARTING THIS YEAR WILL APPLY 2-J+-D FOR WEED CONTROL. TEMPORAJ GRAZING CONSISTS OF OATS AND RYE GRASS. HE RENOVATES HIS PSRMANEST PASTURES AMD PUTS IN RYE GRASS...ABOUT 8 ACRES, HE BREAKS GROUND FOR 20 ACRES OF OATS. AS A RULE HE TAKES OFF IN MARCH AND THEN CUTS THEM FOR HAY IN THE DOUGH SLIDE FARM-i: HAY BARM STAGE. HE PUTS UP ABOUT 800 BALES OF HAY AM) mMiS IT ALL. SOME YEARS HE PUTS OUT LESPEDEZA ON RENOVATED SOD FOR SUMMER GRAZING. THE FARM SLIDE FARM-1JJ. WATER SUPPLY COMES FROM TWO STOCK PONDS AND A
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SPRING BRANCH. WILMER*S FATHER LOVES TO SPEND MUCH OF HIS TIME ON THIS POND PISHING. THAT'S
WHERE I FOUND HIM LAST MONDAY AFTERNOON WHEN I VISITED THE GODBOLD FARM, WILMER HAS ABOUT 20
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CRES OF TIMBER ON THE HOME PLACE AND 225 ACRES
N THE DTHER PLACE. IT IS MOSTLY PINE AND HE ELEGTIVELY HARVESTS IT AND PROTECTS IT FROM HE PLANS TO DO SOME GIRDLING OF UNDESIBAB1
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JARDWOODS THIS FALL. MOST OF THE TIMBER IS YOVM �INE. THE LAND IS ALL FENCED AND CROSS FENCED. WILKBR HAD BEEN USING CEDAR AND OAK POSTS BUT
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!'HIS YEAR HE STARTED USING CR10S0TED POSTS. HE JIAS 200 AND HOPES TO GET ALL THE WAY AROUND THE PLAGE WITH NEW FENCING. HE PLANS TO START
CREATING HIS OWN POSTS WITH PENTA AND HAS CUT 150 FOR THIS PURPOSE, WILMER GODBOLD�S LAND WAS KGSTLY LAND THAT HAD BEEN CULTIVATED AND THROWN CUT. HE BROKE IT ALL AND CLEARED BACK AND LEVEL!
IT OFF. HE PUCHED THE ENCROACHING WOODS BACK, CLEARING ABOUT TIN ACRES ON THE HOME PLACE. MOST IT WAS A JOB OF GLEANING UP BUSHES AND BRIARS. SLLIDE FARM-1? BROILER HOUSE HE WANTS TO CLEAN UP ANOTHER 50-60 ACRES ON THE OrHER FARM, H3USE. IN 1953 WILMER BUILT THIS BROILER
IT HOLDS 5,000 BIRDS AND HE RAISED
BROILERS UNTIL THE M4RKET GOT SO POOR HE QUIT IN JANUARY OF 1959. HE HAS ALL THE EQUIPMENT HE
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HEEDS AND FIGURES IF THE MSRKET EVER GETS GOOD ENOUGH HE MAY GO B A � IHTO THE BROILER BUSIHES3. SLIDE FARM-18 FREEZER FROM THEIR HALF ACRE GARDEN A�D FAMILY MEAT SUPPLY, MRS. GODBOLD EACH YEAR P8BEZES FROM 1,000 TO 1,200 POUNDS OF POOD TO PUT IH THE IfcMILY FREEZER, THOUGH WE SEE MISS LAURA AT THE
FREEZER WITH MOTHER, HER DADDY SAYS SHE MUCI PREFERS TO HELP HIM OUTSIDE WITH THE CALVES. I f f
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&DDITIOH TO HEAT SHE FREEZES MRS. GODBQIS ALSO 3ANS A HUNDRED OR MORE JARS OF FOOD EACH YMR.... SUCH THIMJS AS JAMS AND JELLIES, PRESERVES, ?ICKLES, TOMATOES AND OTHER FOODS THAT TKS FAMILS
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SHE ALSO LOVES TO COOK AND IS A
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HOUSEWORK MRS. GODBOLD ALSO WORKS A REGULAR �HIFT AT THK FRANKLli COUHTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL SHE DOES OLLRIOAL WORE. SHE HAS BEBH 'HERE FOR FIVE AND � HALF YEARS TO SUPPLEMENT fAMILY INGOMS. SHE WORKS EIGHT TO FIVE DAILY A2� SLIDE SEWIHG SEW AMD DOES MOST OP TEE SEWING FOR HERSELF AHD OR LAURA. IN SPARE TIME SHE LIKES TO GET WILHER LIKES T > THIRD WEEKEHD. MRS, GODBOLD JILSO LIKgS fO
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AMD FISH AND MRS, GODBOLD ADMITS SHE LIKES | FISH WHEN TIME PERMITS. WILHER GODBOiD WORKS 0 SLIDE FARM-22 rOSELY WITH HIS COUNTY AG1HT AMD OTHER COUHfY
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AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. HE SEEKS THEIR ADVICE AND TRIES TO FOLLOW IT IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE, IT IS HIS HOPE TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AM) EXPAND HIS PRESENT FARM PROGRAM. MRS. AHD MRS, WILEER
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GODBOLD BELONG TO THE BETHESDA METHODIST CHURCH IN THEIR COMMUNITY. WILMER IS A STSWARD IN HIS CHURCH AND SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. MRS, GODBOLD TEACHES THE PRIMARY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS. MR. AND MRS. GODBOLD BELONG TO THE FRANKLIN GOUNTY FARM BUREAU. WILMER IS A PAST SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSIONER. HE JUST FINISHED A TERM ON THE COUNTY F.H.A. OMMITTEE. HB IS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN POLIEl HEREFORD ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION AND THE MISSISSIPPI POLLED HEREFORD iSSOCIATION. MRS. GODBOLD IS ACTIVE IN P.T.A. PHIS IS A FINE STORY OF A YOUHG FAMILY DOING A }OOD JOB AMD I AM PROUD TO SALUTE THEM AS THIS 'fESK'S OUTSTANDING FARM FAMILY. NOW I WANT YOU 0 MEET THEM. � HOW MANY COWS WANT AS MAXIMUM? , WHAT HAVE BEEN MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEMS? . WHAT ARE LIMITING FACTORS IN FUTURE? , MRS. WHAT LIRE MOST ABOUT HOME? . HAVE EVER WISHED STILL IN JACKSON? . HOW CAN YOU BEST CONTRIBUTE TO OVERALL PGM.
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