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Farm Family of the week
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YMY GRATEFUL TO SIMPS OH COUITY AGENT, MILTON BBffAlDS A M JOHN CHILDRESS, SIMPS� COUNTY &Q1L COFSSRVATION ArBE IJT THE SOIL CONS^YATKM SE&VICE FOR THEIR FffiY WOMJB^UL HELP I S SELECTING OUR EAMILY AMD IB 6 0 I I G WITll MB TO I B B PARK fO OBTAII THEIR STOltf. H0US1 fMIS I S �1
STORY OF MR, AID HBS. J,W. HUGHES AID THEH SOt IATHAJT AKD HIS FAMILY, AM THE ACCOMPLISHMMTS
THEY HAVE MADE 0 1 474 ACHES OF LAM). BOTH MS, AND MRS. J.Tf. HUGHES GRM UP IJf THS HUGHES TOUM COffislWITY OF SIMPSON COUITY WITIilK THHEE M I L ^ OF BA.CH OTKM. THEY MET AT COMIUHITY GET
TOGBBIMS AM) IffiB MARRIED I B BBCEHBER OF 1 9 2 0 , TODAY LITE ON THE FARM THEY MOYED TO I I 1921. IT I S OS THIS LAND THAT THEY IUYE M I S S D MATHAH TOO, MET,
A FAMILY OF FOUR CHILBR&T.
FELL IK LOYE AND MARRIED A Y0U1G LADY FROM THIS SAME COMMUNITY,,.IN FACT S H I U'FED IN THE NEXT HOUSE BOfffl THE ROAD. THEY WERE MARRIED FOUR
YEARS AGO Affl> MTB&IT BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME TO THE FARM H� AKD HIS FATHER OPERATE AS A PARTIER SHIP. BOTH NATHAN AND HIS FATHER HAVE FASHED AI MRS. JOHN HUGHES RECALLS THE HOUSI SHE CAMS TO: THIS'.-FARM AS A
fflEIR LIVKS.
SHE MOVED INTO WES
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BRIBE.
SHE SAID THEIR FIRST HOME WAS AN OLD
DOUBLE P M WI1H A HALL FROM FRONT fO BACK M D A LONG PORCH ACROSS THE HRONT. SHE RECALLS TEAT
THIiHALL WAS OPM fO HIE WEATHER AND THAT THE WII WOULD HOWL THOUGH I f 0 1 COLD WINTM NIGHTS.
SHE USED A TIME HONOR� EXPRESSION WELL KNOWN I I RURAL AMERICA A GENERATION AGO WHEN SHE SAID fflll YOU COULD THROW A CAT THROUGH HIS CRACKS MR, AND MRS,
I I THS WALLS OP THAT FIRST HOUSE.
J O H I HUGHES LITSD IH THAT HOUSE AHB REARED THEII FAMILY UNTIL 1937 WHffl THEY BUILT THBI1 H01B. THAf OLD HOUSE DIW*T HA?E AIY
F A C I L I T I E S . , , S H E DID H M WASHING OF A SCKUB BOARD AWO CA11I1D WATER AND WOOD f 0 THE HOUSB MAHY TIMES A DAY. AID THAT WAS PEBTTY MUCH
THE PICTUSI I H RUHAL MISSISSIPPI 20 YEARS AGO, BVM. TODAY ALL THAT IS CHAJf&ED, AHI> L A f m
SHOW YOU SOME OF MHS, HUGHES MODEM? C0HTEKC1SCBJ THAT TODAY MAKE FARM LITIBG A PLEASURE. FAR�II(
FOR JOHN HUGHES WAS RUGGED IN THOSE EARLY DAYS TOO. HE STARTS) WITH 40 ACRES OF LAND, FARMED
WITH TWO MULES, A GEORGIA STOCK, SCRATCH HARROW, MIDDLE WStmf TURNING PLOW, WAGH AND BUGGY*
HE HARMED 30 ACRES OF W01I OUT, WASHED AWAY STHEP HILL LAHD, AND 1AISBS CORN, COTTON AND
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Fffl OATS AID A FEW COWS.
TODAY THE GULLIES
kBB GONE AND fHE FARtf I S PRODUCTIVE AND THAT'S THE STORY I WANT TO TELL. JOHN Aim M THAN HUGHE
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S T I L L RAISE A LITTLE COTTON AND CORN, BUT CATTLE PLAY AH EVER INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FART I I THE! FAm PROGRAM. TODAY 62 HMD OP FIIT1 HEREPOIS) PASTURE.
ATTLE GRAZE HILLSIDES WISH WITH MIMM.
JOHI M � M I H M HUGHES FALLOW THEIR QiT LASB H THE SUMMER THUf PLANT OATS IN THE FALL AND
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THEY HAVS F0UHB THAT IT REALLY PAYS OFF IN LUSH �T GRAZIIG Pffi THEIR Llf^TOCK* A M I T 330 OF IMEra 474 ACRSS I S TIMBER LAND SO THEY SAVE Mm I T AN IMPORTANT CROP TOOf BUT THAT'S
I O T H M PART OF THE STORY WHICH I�LL TS.L IS A P H I MINUTES. WITH L I M I T � LAND FOR G1AZHG ANB
CULTIVATION THEY HAVE REDUCED T H I I S HERD FROM 4tiAt HAS ONE T I ^ 180 HEAD AND BROUGHT I T DOWN
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THEIR PRESENT 62 HEAD.
THEY ARE NOW
CONCENTRATING PRIMARILY ON IMPROVING HSHD QUALI1 ��CANY OF THEIR COWS ARE SUBJECT TO REGISTRY. HERD IS TB AND BANGS TESTED. THEY FOLLOW
COMMERCIAL COW AID CALF PROGRAM* SELLING THUS MRLY CALVES OFF THE COW AND FEEDING THEIR U T S OFF ON CORN AND OATS WHICH THEY RAISE ON FARM. THEY PRESENTLY HAVE $4 HEIFERS AND
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COWS AND PLAN TO BUILD TO A HAXXMtiH HERD OF
75 BROOD cows,
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THEY HAVE HOI BOUGHT AMY STOCK
TH1Y SAVE THJSIR BEST ALL CALVIN ARE
I I THE U S I FIVE YMRS,
HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEUiNT, CALFHJ9OD VACCINATED,
THEY GET ABOUT A 90% CAJLF
CROP AMD SELL ANY HEIFERS ON THE OPM MASK T I F THEY ARE NOT TOP QUALITY THAT WILL HELP TO IMPROVE THE HERD, THEY CULL THEIR HERD
CLOSELY AKD FOLLOW A GOOD PARASITE CONTROL PROGRAM USING MCgRUBS FOS HORHFLY CONTROL. S L I D Emm FAB&..6 m
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JOHN AND NATHAN HUGHES HATE WO HEREFORD BULLS, BOTH OF THEM SUBJECT TO REGISTRY, THEY ARE FAS
M08E INTERESTED IN PRODUCTION QUALITY THAN PAPERS SO THEY DO NOT KES��� UP THE PAPERS ON ANY SLIDE POND CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FRESH WATER FOH THE HERD. JOHN AID NATHAV HUGHES HAVE JUST COMPLETED A NEW STOCK POND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL WATER, BY THE WAY, THEIR PERMANENT GRAZING CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF 7 5 ACRES OF BERMUDA, DALLIS, WHITE DUTCH, COM ON LESPEDEZA AND BAHAI GRASS. ACRES OF OATS PROVIDE THE WINTER GRAZING, 66 ALL OF THEIR CATTLE, THREE STOCK PONDS PROVIDE A
THE CATTLE GET HAY IN THE WINTER TIME AID OTHER THAN THOSE ON FEED, THE REST OF THE HERD I S SLIDE FARH-8 COTTOlFLAIfB CARRIED ON GRAZING, J 0 H 1 AN� N A T M I HUGHES
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FOLLOW THE MOST IMPROIED FARMING PRACTICES, FOR EXAMPLE, IHIS LAND WAS IS COTTON THIS YEAS, fflf ONLY DIB fill HUGHES MEN FOLLOW A GOOD
F E R T I L I Z E R AND INSECT CONTROL PROGRAM, BUT THEY ALSO PLANT A COYER CROP OP YBWH, AND KNOCK BOWS THE STOCKS TO CUT DOWN ON OVERWINTERING OF BML T I L S , WHICH I S mm YOU SEE HERE. THIS
1 4 ACRES OP COTfON YIELDED BETTER THAN A BALE TO THE ACRE THIS YEAR. JOHN AND NATHAN HUGHES
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ORK CLOSELY WITH ALL AGRICULTURAL AGENCIES, IEY TEST B I I X I SOIL AID F M T I L I Z E ACCORDING TO OIL NEEDS. 20 OF THEIR 60 ACMES IN OATS I S UT IN WITH A PASTURE JMEkMf BY SEEING THEM TO PERMANEHT SOD, THIS 20 ACRES I S USED FCR
IAY AFTER TUB CATTLE ARE TAKEN OFF IN THE SPRIBG AND NATHAN HUGH^ HA�B TURN� TO SOD SEH5I3S OR WO PRIMARY R M S 0 N S , . * T 0 KEEP FROM BRB&KDTG
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UP HILLSIDES AND TO SAVE LAB0B,
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!HM?E�S BUT ONI FLAT P U C E ON THEIR FARM, YEf THEY HAYE MkVE I T A HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE FARM, THIS I S A SOD SEEDED HILLSIDE AID I T SHOWS RAPHICALLY WHY THE HUGHES*S SOD SEED* THAT
BARE PATCH I S G10UND WIiH THE TOP SOIL WASHED IWAY, PERMNBNT SOD I S N W HOLDING fllAT HILLSIB O
YET SC� S E ^ E D OATS ARE PROVIDING WINTEH FOR THE LIYJ^TOCK, ALL OF THEIR LAND I S
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A I D PAKHHG IS M T I OH THE C0FTOU1, I SAID A MGMSST AGO THAT THEIR WAS OILY 0JT3 FLAT P U C E ON THE FARM ABB I T WAS OH BIB TOP 0P A DOME SHAPM) HILL AND IT M S LOST TO CROP USB BECAUSE I T WOULM'T DKAIH PROPERLY, HATHAK HUGHES DID SOMETHING ABOUT ff* JOHH AID THBY HAD
�LESX># EXTAISIOI AG1ICULTUSAL ESGIMEER TO COME LOOK AT IT AIB TELL THEM WHAT TO DO, KESULT I S THIS STEPPS5 DOWN TEBRAC1 SYSTM WHEREBY BACH TESSACJS CATCHES THE �ATB8 ? MJNS I T AROUND THE HILL AND K I M DSABTS IT IFTO THE TEHf&CE BiSLOW. fSM RESULT I S A PIODUCTISB FLAT A WHILE AGO THE
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HIS SOK KATHAKj MANAGE THAT T I M B ^ AS A THEY HAVE 330 ACRES I F
IGHLY PRODUCTIVE CHOP, TIMBEH, MOSTLY PUTS
THEY DO TIHBER iTAHD
IMPROVEMENT IfOEE BY f H I T O H G , WEEDI1&, FIKE PROTECTIOIT, SELECTIVE CUTTISG AHD 2 1 MANY OTHER SLIDE FARH.13 ttYS. THEIR TIMBEH HELEASE WORK I S EBALLY
'AYBTG OFF AS YOU CAH SEE HERE I F THE MAIY
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ROPERLY THIMBD STAND OF OLDER TIMBER,
1 I D 1ATHAN HUGHES WORK CLOSELY WITH TIMBER SLIPS SfT SPECIALISTS A M AMOSG OTHM THIMGS
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THEY HARKED THE TIHBGR TO BE CUT BEFORE THEY EVER STARTED ANY WORK. HERE JOHN CHILDRESS OF
TEE SIMPSON COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE DEMONSTRATED HW HE AID MR, JOHN HUGHES WOT ABOUT MARKING THE TIMBER TO BE TAKM OUT. KATHAN AND MIS FATHER HAVE GJPRDLED MM
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HME 1ATHAI POINTS TO THE C0U1TY
GIRDLE 0 1 AJf UIDIS11ABLE HARDTfOOB AW
AGEHT MILTON EDWARDS KNEELS DOM TO �OIHT OUT A YOUHG PINE THAT FILL HAVE LIFE AS A RESULT OF THIS GIRDLING. AS A RESULT OF THEIR TIMBUt
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MANAGEMENT/IS PAYING GOOD DIVIBMDS I I MAHY WAYS. THIS I S OILY OIE WAY. IT I S LDMBBR
WHICH NATHAN I S ACCUMULATING IN ORDER TO SUXLD A NEW HOUSE FOR HIS FAMILY AID HE�S GETTING I T WITHOUT HARMFULLY DEPLETING THE TIMBER SUPPLY* EVERY YEAR MTHAN AST) HIS FATHER CUT ABOUT SO�
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FENCE POSTS FROM THEEH TIMBER...FENCE POSTS WHICH THEY TREAT IN THEIR 0W3T VAT WITH A PENTA PRESERVATIVE FOR LONG� L I F E . I S FENCED AND CROSS FMCED AM ALL THEIR LAND WHN I SAY THEY
USE ALL THE IMPROVED FARMING PRACTICES I MEAN 13 BECAUSE ONE EXAMPLE I S THE USE OF ELECTRIC FENCING TO BLOCK OFF AREAS FOR TEMPORARY GRAXISC 8" ADDITION TO THBI1 REGULAR FENCING PROGRAM.
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IHEHE IS ONLY ONE PROGRAM ON 2HIS FARM T M f
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A FAMILY AFFAIR AMD I f BBLONGS TO SOI KATH&JU SAHJAH'S FATHER-IN-LAW SAISBS POULTRY AM) NATHA* HIM OUT A LITTLE A FSff YEARS AGO AHD H� LIKED THE POULTRY PSOGfiAM SO HB WEST H f O II 1 HIMSELF, HE SIAR1ED � I I H (MB HWSE AID
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L200 L A Y ^ S , LAYING HiaJS,
TODAY HE HAS WO HOUSES AND 3 #000 HB�S I B M IN THE POULTRY BUS H E S S
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YE&HS HW AND L I U S IT VERY
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I GUESS I SHOULD SAY MRS. mm�
3AS BB&ar I I THE POULTRY BUSINESS 1BEBE YEARS 3BCAUSE SHE T A ^ S CARE OP MOST OF I f . SHE GBfS
AEC3UT 70 PEfiCENX SGG PROBUCflON AND USUALLY SBEPS A MEN ABOUT 1 8 MONTHS. WHM THEY BMJIN TO
UO OUT OF Pi?ODUCTION THET ARE SOLD A THOUSAND AT A TIME ASH REPLACED WITH BABY CHICKS WHICH COME ENTS PRODUCTION m X f f l f f i l AND HIT THSIR PliAE P 1 0 W C T I 0 N AT ABOUT 9 MONTHS, SLIDE FA3^U2O
(JHJLCKftN HOUSE
NASHAI USES
AUTOMATIC WATERERS AND SELF FEISD^S IN 1MB HOUSE VO REDUCE LAIOE RBQUIREMMT AND KEEP A CONSTANT UPPLY OF FEED AND FRESH WATER BEFORE THE HENS A AT ALL TIMES, THE B&GS ARE GATHERS THREE TO LIGHTS ARE
?0UR TIMBS A DAY IN WIRE BASKETS*
USED IN THE IAYHG HOUSE FSOM ISOO A.M. TO ) S # 5 BACH MORNING TO KEEP THEM ON A LONG DAYLIGH
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SCHEDULE FOR TOP PRODUCTION.
W K ~ THE EGGS H&
ARE BROUGHT DRfO THE HANDLING ROOM IN WIRE BASKETS THEY ARE FIRST IAH3ED I S AM ELECTRIC EGG WAHHER. SLIDE FARtU23 THEY A l l MM CANDLED AND GRABS)
INTO THREE S I 2 E S # WIBi A l SLECfiaC CAMDLI1G AID GSADIKG MCHIITE, THFT HAR1BT OILY GHADS Hm BIEY HAVE
S G G S , U K G E , MEDIUM AID SMALL,
STEADY CUSTOMERS BOH MOST OP THEIR NORMAL EGG PRODUCTION BUT DURIHG PEAK SEASONS OP PRODUCTION THEY HAVE TO GET OUT AFP S S M CUSTOMERS FOR THE SLIDE DBS SURPLUS, HOST OF THE EGGS ARE CAKTOIED WITH
THE NAME W*N. HUGHES 0 1 THIS CARTOS AMD MARKET� N MAGEEt WSSDESBLLL MB JACKSOI* SOME STOR�
WAFT THEIR EGGS IN WIM. RAIHEH THAN TflE CARTOI SO MR. AID MRS. FATHAH HUGH^ MARKET I I THIS
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THEY FOLLOW A STRICT VAC c mm
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MEDICATION AND SAWTATIOI PHOGRAM�
THEY ARE NOW AT THEIR MAXIMUM PRODUCTION FOR A WHILE AT LEAST. A KODERK COOLER HOWE�� # THEY DO PLAN TO IKSTA1 TO K ^ P UP fHEIB EGG QUALITY THEY BBLIVWl WICE A
DURING THE SUMMM MOHTHS. WEEK,
I COULD TALK AT GREAT LMGTfi ABOUT ANY
ONE OF THE P10GSA1S OF THE JOHN AND NATHAN HUGH1 FARM BUT I MUST COfm ALL THE STORY I F POSSIBLE,
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SO LEX'S MOVE HURRIEDLY ALONG* AND HAY I SAY, I ' M AFRAID I ' M A LITTLE LIKE MOST FARMERS, HI ARE INCLINED T0 SPEND OUR MAJOR TIME 0 1 TUB FAR1 AND NEGLECT M M AND HER S�M&KJ3SG PROGMM, O I A AFIiAIB THAT I S EXACTLY W t t f I AM ABOUT TO M DO TO MRS, HUGHES BECAUSE �fi ARE ABOUT TO HUH Ot OUT OF TIME, HOOTER, LET ME SAY THAT SHE HAS PROM WHICH ONE WOULI
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ABOUT AM ACRE OF YEAR ROUND GARDEN SEE RAISES MOST OF THE FAMILY'S FOOD. EASILY ESTIMTE Wkl
B i � TWO FAMILY'S fGf UF
AT LEAST 3 , 0 0 0 POUNDS OF FOOD BACH YEAR I I B1EII WQ FOOD FREEZBSS. BIEY BUTCHfiH FOUR BOGS AID A BEEF AMD IMS, JOHN HUGHES PUTS-UP ABOUT $06 TKi HUGH]
POUNDS OF VEGETABLES AND S� CHICKENS.
FAMILIES PRODUCE PRACTICALLY ALL ffiE FOOD tflSY CONSUME SIGHT ON 1HEI1 O K M S B , W SLIDE FARH-26 IN C0NT1AST-,
TO MIS, HUGHES* FIRST DKAFTY HOUSE AID SUKHOOa KITCHEN WITHOUT ANY CONyBHIB^ES, SHE TODAY HAS E1ECTRIC4L CONVEMIENCES I I HER MODEM KITCHEN WHICH WAS COMPLETELY SiMODLED OILY LASf aJLY. THIS BEAUTIFUL EIECTRIC STOVE I S OILY
0 � E OP SEVERAL,��SUCH AS AN ELECTRIC WASHING M4CHINE, ELECTRIC HOT JfATS* HE&THR, ELECTRIC I R O I E R AND MANY M0RE# MRS. JOHM HUGHES L0F1S .
TO COOK AID SHE LOVES TO SERVE HER COJilUIITY*
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I N FACT, THE WHOLE FAMILY DOES.
ALL OF THSf
BUT MR. JOHN HUGHES ARE MMBERS OF THE PINE GHOt B&PTIST CHURCH AHB WHILE HE BELONGS TO A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HE SUPPORTS BOTH CHURCH f 0 TEE FULLEST. NATHAI I S SECRETARY OF HIS SU1MY MRS.
SCHOOL CLASS AM) ALL ATTEND REGULARLY.
JOHN HUGHES I S ALSO A MEMBER OF THE AMERICA! LBGION AUXILLIARY. JOHN I S A Lfi&IONAISB, UkSQS,
S O I L CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, A . S . C . COMMUNITY CQMMITTBBafIN* AH) MRHBER OF THE FA1M HJR�AU BOARD OF UIRICTflRS OF SIMPSON COUITY* M1MAM I S A MEMBER OP THE SIMPSOM COUHTY POULTH PRODUCER'S ASSOCIATIOI AID MEMBHJSHIP CH&IRM41 FOR THAT GROUP. OF COURSE, AS I SAID MRS.
MTHAN HUGHES I S PROBABLY THE BUSIEST OWE OF THJ WHOLE FAMILY AND SHE HAS H M HAKBS FULL JUST KSEPING THAT POULTRY EST1RPRISB GOIKG AND BAISB A FINE YOUNG SOM. P1IOER TO HER MARI1IAGE TO HATHAN, MRS. HUGHES WORKED AS A DENIAL ASSISTANT AND STILL HELPS OUT OCCASIONALLY WHEN TEBY GBT SHORT OF HELP. OH, THERE'S SO MUCH TO VWLh AB� IF I MM
THIS WONDERFUL SIMPSON COUNTY FAMILY, WT KEEP TALKING YOU*RS NOT GOING TO GET TO
MEET THEM , SO I ' L L STOP AND LET'S DO TiiAT RIGK NOW.
