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I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I M DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO JEFFERSON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT, MR, WILTON R t DYKES AND HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT, MRS. MARY K. TAYLOR, FOR THEIR VERY FINE 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. THIS IS THE STORY OF MR* AND MRS. LEG�?
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GOODSON WHO OWN 300 ACRES OF LAND IN THE NEBO OMMUNITY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. THilR FARM IS LOCATED ABOUT 3.8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FASETTE OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNION CHURCH. MR.
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AND MRS. GOODSON HAVE THREE CHILDREN, 23 YEAR OLD JIMMY, WHO IS MARRIED, LIVING ON THE GOODSON FARM AND WORKING IN NATCHEZ. ,.22 YEAR OLD BARBARA
km 15 Yiya OLD NINA, THE ONLY ONE STILL AT HOME
&ND SHOWN HIRE WITH HER MOTHER AND FATHER. LEON 3GGDS0N SAYS HE GREW UP ON THIS SAME RIDGE AND HAS BEEN HERE ALL HIS LIFE. HE WAS BORN AND REARED IN THE NEBO COMMJSITY AND STARTED FARMING SLIDE FARMOLD HOUSE POR HIMSELF IN 1936 WHEN HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD. HIS FATHER WAS HAVING A HARD TIME KEEPING HIS [ A D TOGETHER IN THAT DEPRESSION PERIOD AND HE *N HURNED 60 ACRES OVER TO LEON IF HE WOULD PAY IT OUT WITH THE FEDERAL LAND BANK WHO HELD THE 40RTGAGE. OVER THE YEARS LEON GOODSON HAS
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BOUGHT ADDITIONAL LAND AS HE COULD FIND I T FOR SALE AND COULD GIT HOLD OF THE] MONEY TO PAY FOR IT, TODAY H I S 3 0 0 ACRES I S DEBT F R E E . LEON
MARRIED H I S LOVELY WIFE I N 1 9 3 6 AND BROUGHT HER BACK TO THE FARM TO L I V E WITH H I S FOLKS UNTIL HE B U I L T THIS THEIR F I R S T HOME. LEON CUT THE LtJMBU THS
FOR I T OFF H I S LAND, AHD BUILT I T HIMSELF, SLIDE FARM NEi HOU W HOUSE
GQODSON FAMILY LIVED IN THAT HOUSE UNTIL THEY COMPLETED ffiEIR NEW HOME IN 1 9 5 7 . LEON STARTED
GUTTING TIMBER OFF THE PLACE FOR THIS HOME I N 1 9 5 1 AND CUT A LITTLE EVERY YEAR UNTIL, AS HE S A Y S # HE GOT ENOUGH HE EITHER HAD TO BUILD OR DO SOMETHING WITH I T . HE BUILT THE HOUSE WITH
THE HELP OF ONE CARPENTER AND FARM LABOR OFF THE PLACE. THE FOUNDATION I S PRESSURE GREQSGTED
AND THE CEDAR FOR THE MANEEE WAS CUT OFF THE FARM. LEON GOODSON STARTLD OUT PARuING RAISING OWL
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COTTON AND CORN AND HAD 8 - 1 0 HEAD OF CATTLE.
&BOUT 1 2 ACRES WAS I N CULTIVATION AND HE FARMED WITH MULES. AS HE COULD HE CLEARED LAND AND I AT ONE TIME HL HAD
INCREASED THE ROW CROPS.
1 0 * 1 5 ACRES OF COTTON BUT HAS SINCE DROPPED BACK TO H I S PRESENT 7 ACRES, BEFORE HE STARTED
PURNIHG H I S LAN� BACK TO GRASS HE HAD 3 0 - 3 5 ACRES I N CULTIVATION. HE BEGAN TO TURN I T BACK TO
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PASTURE ABOUT 1 9 5 5 BECAUSE HE FOUND OUT HE COULD SLIDE
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DO BETTER WITH CATTLE THAN HE COULD TRYING TO DO SO MUCH ROW CROPPING, N W LEON GOODSON HAS ONLY O
ABOUT 30 ACRES OF CORN WHICH HE RAISES FOR FEED FOR LIVESTOCK, 9 0 SOME HEAD. SLIDE FARM-7 BULL HIS PRESENT LIVESTOCK HERD I HE HAS65 BROOD COWS AND HEIFSRS* LEGIT
THREE HERD BULLS AND THE REST ARE CALVES.
FOLLOWS A COMMERCIAL COW AND CALF PROGRAM AND SBLLS MOST OF THE GALVSS MILK FAT OFF fHE COM, HOWEVER, I F THEY*RB NOT SHOWING ENOUGH QUALITY OR ARK HOT GROWING OUT LIKE THEY SHOULD HE CARRIE THEM OVm ON GRAZING, FEEDS THEM GRAIN DURING THE WINTER AND SELLS THEM IN THE EARLY SPRING. HE
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ALWAYS FEEDS SOJffi CALVES AND TRIES TO SELL HIS CORN THROUGH HIS CALVES. WINTER. HE FED 17 THIS PAST HB
LEON GETS ABOUT A 9 0 - 9 5 # CALF CROP.
L I S E S CATTLE AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE I F HE CAN GET MORE PASTURE ESTABLISHED, BUT HE HAS ABOUT AS MANY AS HB CAN HANDLE ON HIS PRESENT ACREAGE. FOR INSECT AND PARASITE CONTROL HB
SPRAYS TWICE A YEAR AND USES BAGKRUBS IN THE SLIDE FARM-9 WSSIS PASTURE PASTURE. PERMANENT PASTURE CONSISTS OF 1 0 0 ACR1S AS HE
OF OPEN LAND, ABOUT HALF OF IT IMPROVED.
POINTS OUT TO COUNTY AGENT DYKES, HE HAS FOUR PASTURE AREAS, ROTATING HIS GRAZING BETWEEN THEM. HE CLIPS HIS PASTURES TWICE A YEAR* PRINCIPLE
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CONSISTS OF DALLIS, CARPET AND BERMUDA
GRASS, WHITE DUTCH GLOVER AND LESPEDEZA, TEMPORARY GRAZING CONGISTS OP 25-30 ACRES IN RYE GRASS, OATS AND CRIMSON CLOVER PUT IN A PREPARED SEED BED, BAGH YEAR LEON GOCDSON LIMES SOME OF
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HIS PASTURE LAID. HE DB1S THIS UNTIL BE GETS , AROUND IT ALL AMD THEN STARTS OVER AGAIN. BY THE WAY, WHAT LEON POT'S INCORN HE FERTILIZES HEAVY WITH 300-500 POUMDS UNDER THE CROP AND SIDE DRESSES WITH 200 POUNDS OP NITRATE. HE PLANTS PUNKS G-740 AND IN 1958 HK HAD 139 BUSHELS ON FIVE ACRES TO WIN FIRST IN THE COUNTY CONTEST AND SECOND IN THE DISTRICT, WHEN LEON STARTED FARMING THIS WAS IN BOW CROP LAUD, NOW IT IS PRODUCING FINE GRAZING FOR BEEF CATTLE, HE HAS DONE ENOUGH CLEARING HERE TO KEEP THE WOODS FROM TAKING OVER. EACH YEAR LSON KEEPS A COUPLE OF BROOD SOWS AND SAI3ES TWO LITTERS OP PIGS, HE HAS ABOUT 35 HEAD EACH YEAR AND MARKETS MOST OF THEM EXCEPT WHAT HE BEEPS FOR THE FAMILY FOOD SUPPLY. LAST SEASON HE USBD A HAMPSHIRE DUROG CROSS, PRIOR TO THAT HE HAD BEEN STRAIGHT �UR0C m THINKS HE LIKES THEM BETTER. WATER FOB
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LIVESTOCK IS SUPPLIED FROM TWO SPRING BRANCHES, ONE SMALL POND AND A DEEP WELL WITH AUTOMATIC
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i'lMHBR I S ALSO AH IMPORTANT PAST HIS HAS 1 8 0 AGREI
O P LION G-0GDSQN�5 FARM PROGRAM.
; ; i P I N 1 WHICH HE THINS AND WEEDS* PROTECTS FROM F I R E AND SELECTIVELY HARVESTS. Tim I K H I S SPARE
LEON DOES SOME LOGGING FOR HIMSELF AHD FOR
J O H N S - M A N V I L L I , WHO PRACTICALLY SURROUNDS HIM,
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LEON HAS TRIED TO CUT EVERY ACRE INTO THE CROP FOR WHICH I T 1 3 BEST S U I T E D , . . � E S P E C I A L L Y HAS HE WORKED Af GETTING H I S HILLSIDES INTO GOOD PIKE TIMBER. WHERE '.SHIS PINE STAHDS LEON ONCE P L A N M NATURAL REFORESTATION HAS ffiODUCI LION HAS &IRDLED ABOUT
H I S ROW CROPS,
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T H I S FINE STAMD OF PIME.
? O ACRES OF TIMBER AND IM TMIS PICTURE YOU CAH S E E SOME OF T E I OLD DEAD TRUMCS OF UNDESIRABLE HARDWOODS S T I L L STANDING. MOST OF THEM HAVE
GRUMBLED AND FALLEH TO THE 0RGUND MAKISG ROOM FOR YOUNG P I 1 � . WHAT LSOM HAS LET GO BACK TO
T H f B i R HAS BEEN WHAT SOMEOHE ELSE HAD CLEA1K> AJffi WHAT HE FAR1CD WEEN HE F I R S T STARTED OUT. LSQU
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ALSO CUTS H I S OWK F S ^ E P O S T S .
HE HAS ABOUT 5 0 0
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HE HAS BUILT PRACTICAL! I N FACT AN
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ALL THE BUILDINGSOON H I S LAND.
IMPORTANT FART OF H I S PROGRAM I S TO GUT H I S GWH T B I B E R AND HAUL I T TO THE MILL FOR THE LUMBER HB
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HEEDS ON THE P U C E , HE BUILT THIS BARN IN EVEN BEFORE HE MOVED UP T THIS LAND WHERE HIS HOUSB IS TODAY. HOWEVER HE HAD IN MIND BUILDIHG ALL HIS BUILDINGS OH THIS SITE BEFORE HE SMARTED,
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RIGHT NOW LEON. IS IN THE PROCESS OP BUILDING A MACHINE SHED AND FARM SHOP. HE HAS PLANNED IT TO HAVE ROOM FOR HIS TWO TON TRUGK, PICKUP AND TRACTOR. HE DOES MOST OF HISOWN FARM REPAIR AND INfANAHEE WORK ON FARM MACHINERY, WITH HIS TRACTOR AHD FARM EQUIPMENT HE CUTS OATS IN THE DOUGH STAGE AND LESPED1ZA FOR HAY. HE HIRES THE HAY BALED. LEON SAYS MR. W.R. DYKES, THE COUNTY AGENT HAS HELPED HIM WORK OUT HIS PROGRAM ALL ? THE FIVE YEARS HE HAS BEEN IN JEFFIRSON COUNTY.
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THEIR TWO ACRE YEAR ROUND GARDEN AND MEAT SUPPLY MRS. QOODSQH EACH XEffi. FREEZES A THOUSAND GUNBS OF MEAT .AMD i.T LEAST 1$Q PINTS OF EGETABLBS. THE COLD STORAGE LOOTER PREPARES "HE MEAT FOR THEIR FAMILY FREB2ER. IN ADDITIOH
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!!O WHAT SHE FREB2ES MRS* GOODSON ALSO PUTS UP ISO PINTS OR MORE OF FOOD IN JARS..,SUCH THINGS TOMATOES, PICKLES, JAMS, JELLIES AND SO FORTH. , TAYLOR, HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT, SHOWN OH VJM LEFT, WORKS CLOSELY WITH MRS. GOODSON IN PLANNING HER HOMBMAKING PROGRAM. MRS. G OODSOH
CANNED POOD
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LXKLS TO COOS*�,MB HAS IT S O DO SO SHE DOES IT. J 15 YEAR OID NIHA DOES SOME COOKING AND ESPECIALLY LUCES TO BAKE. M S , 9G0DS0N DOES LIKE TO SEW AMI SLIDE FARM-2; DOES SEW FOR HERSLEF AMD HSR TWO DAUGHTERS. NIK/ HAS CLOTHING AS OHE OF HER I . H CLUB PROJECTS AMD 4IS LEARNING TO SEW UNBER HSR MOWER'S DIRECT OH. MRS. OO0DS0N WON THE DISTRICT STREET DRESS
CONTEST LAST I�^K IH HOME DEMONSTRATION CLWB MORE Aim V E ' T TO T f i STATE COHTBST AT STATK /IJ fi COLLEGE. MRS. OOODSOH IS 4-H ADVISOR FOR BER SLIDE THREE WOKEN HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB AND SBM IS A LOCAL ADULT LEADER. SHE AID HIIfA AMD MRS. TAILOR SPEUD J f O CfK
TIME TOGETHER AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE MAEIS0 PLANS BOTH FOR 1*-H PROJECT WOHK AM) HOMEMAKING TOO. MKS. GOODSOIf ALSO LIKES TO RAISE CHICKSMS
AND HAS A LAYIMG FLOCK OF 30 HcJiS AND RAISES ^0 CHICKENS FOR U K PREFER. CAMERA OH FAMILY SHE ALSO HELPS WITH Tl
WEEN SHE�S HEBIDED, MR. AHD IKS. LEOU GOODSSN BELOHG TO THE SER1PTA BAPTIST CHURCH IK THE EDGE OF FRANKLIN COUHTX. MRS. OOODSOH HAS HELD MOST EVERY OFFICE IH TIE BEBO-PERTH HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB AHD THE G0GD30N FAMILY BELOHQS TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU. PAST A,S*O; COIMJUITY COMMITT1EMAN, LEON IS A NINA HAS
BEKH A 1 . H CLUB MEMBER FOR SIX TEARS AID HER |PROJECTS ARE FOODS AND GLOTUHG. SHE IS SECRETAR'
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1 . H CLUB, SHE ALSO PLATS BASKETBALL AND SINGS |IN THE SCHOOL CHORUS. MRS. GOODSON LIKES FLOWERS AND LEON LIKES TO HUN? WHEN TIME PERMITS, IT IS THEIR HOPE TO GQNTINUE TO IMPROVE THE IROORAM THEY HAVE AND MAYBE ONE BAY EXPAND FURTHER IP LAND BECOMES AVAILABLE. NOW, LIT HE CHAT A MOMENT WITH THIS PINK FAMILY. LEOH, HOW IMPORTANT IS TIMBER TO YOUK PROSBAJ! 2. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOUR GSAMM fO QBASS LAND FARMING? 3, DO YOU THINK THERE ARE STILL OPPORTUiflTIBS TO FARM FOR YOUNG FOLK3?
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MRS. GOODSOH, WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR HOME?
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WHERE ARE THE OTHER TWO CHILDREN AMD WHAf � DO THEY DOt
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WOULD YOU ADVISE YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY A FARMER IF SHE LOVED HIMt
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NIJA, WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO AffTSR YOU GRADUATE?
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DO YOU LIKE LIVING ON A FARM? WOULD YOU WANT TO HE A FARI4 WIPE?
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