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I WAIT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO SMITH COUNTY'S AGRICULTURAL AGENT, MR, TRUITT BUFKIN FOR iilS VERY WONDERFUL H E L P I I N SELECTING THE FAMILY WE SALUTE TOMY AND IN GOING WITH ME TO Si IS FASM TO OBTAIN THEIR STORY. THIS I S THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS.
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VERNIL R. ECNG, WHO FARM 536 ACRES OF LAND LOCATED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF TAYLORS VILLIS, M I S S I S S I P P I , IN T11E SUMMfiRUND COMMUNITY OF {SMITH COUNTY, HR, AND MRS* VERNIL KING MET
AT A BASKETBALL GAME WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL. I N FACT THEY WERE BOTH PMYING IN A BASKETBALL TQURHAMMT MEN THEY MET, THEY WERE MARRIED IN
1 9 4 6 AND MOVED TO THIS FARM WHERE VERNIL HAD I JBEEN BOHN AND RAISBD, MRS, KING HAD GROWN UP
ON A FARM FOUR MILES SOUTH OF SOSO, IN JONES OUNTY, ABOUT 12 MILES FROM WHERE VERNIL GREW SLIDE OLD HOUSE P* THIS I S A TENNANT HOUSE O THfi BACK OF MM N IT I S THE HOUSE WHERE VERNIL KING ABOUT THE OHLY THINGS DIFFERENT
'ARM TODAY. FAS BORN.
ABOUT IT TODAY ARE THE FACT IT NOW HAS A METAL ROOF AND THEIR USED TO BE A PORCH 10OF OUT OVS? E i E OLD DRAJf BUCKET WELL. HOWEVER, IT WAS IN
�UCH BETTER CONDITION DURING TEE TIME OF YERffll YOUTH THAN IT I S TODAY. WHEN MR, AND M S .
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TERNIL KING If M E MARRIED THEY CAME BACK TO FARM OF VERNIL�S YOUTH AND STARTED OUT FARMING 240 ACRES WHICH VERNIL HAP BOUGHT ROM HIS FATHER* LATER THEY BOUGHT ANOTHER
0 5 ACRES OF THE OLD HOME P U C E AND THEN FINALLY OUGH ADJOINING LAND TO MAKE THEIR PRESENT 5 3 6 ACRE FARM. THEY DIDN'T LITE IN THIS HOUSE
HUT LIVED IN ANOTHER HOUSE THAT SAT ON THE SITE
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3fO� OCCUPIED BY THEIR LOVELY NSC HOME, WHICH HOUSE :HEY BUILT IN 1 9 5 4 . MR. AND MRS, VERNIL KING
FARMED FOR THREE YEARS AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED THEN VERNIL W ! TO WORK FOR A CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY AND FOR TKfi NEXT THREE YEARS THEY LIVED L THE FARM PART OF THE TIMS MI) AWAY FROM I T THEM, AFTER THREE YEARS OF
4 GREAT DEAL TOO.
CONSTRUCTION WORK THEY CAM15 BACK TO THE FARM O STAY. HOWEVER, VERNIL STILL DOBS SOME
PUBLIC WORK FOR A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY TO UPPLS1ENT THE FARM INCOME. SLIDE HILLSIDE MUCH OF SiE LAND
IfHICH VERNIL KING BOUGHT WAS IN VERY BAD SHAPE AND UP TO THIS TIME HIS MAJOR EMPHASIS HAS BEES ON RECLAIMING THIS WORN OUT, ERODED FARM LAND. AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE JOB HE HAS
IIAD TO WQ THIS SPOT WHERE VERNIL AND COUNTY JJGENT TRUITT BUFKIN ARE STANDING WAS AN
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JULLY THAT VBRNIL SAYS YOU COULD HIDE A HOUSE IU Of. AND THIS I S ONLY GIB EXAMPLE OP WHAT
I S T E D IN MANY PLACES ON ALMOST EVERY HILLSIDE F THE FARM. INISHED. TUB RECLAMATION WORE IS ALMOST
FROM N W OF YERNIL KING CAST PLACE O
E EMPHASIS ON BETTER PASTURES AND HEM) ROVEMENT, THE JOB SO FAR HAS BEEF TO SAVE
B LAND... N W THE JOB WILL BE TO IMPROVE THAI O INTO HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE PASTURES TO CARRY SLIDE FARMLIVESTOCK ^JETTER QUALITY LIVESTOCK, THIS SWITCH TO
IMPROVED PASTURES A H BETTER LIVESTOCK BEGAN I N 1 9 5 1 AND I T ' S A SLOW PROCESS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE TO DO IT 0 1 THE PROFITS FROM THE FARMING OPERATION. VERNIL KING HAS
BROOD COWS AND 20 CALVBS AND FOLLOWS A
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HE GETS ABOUT HE
AN 8S# CALF CROP AND CALFHOOD VACCINATES.
; S ONE OF T i l l OLDEST TESTERS FOR BANGS IN THE COUNTY AND M S NEVER HAD A REACTOR. RIGHT NOW 1TSRNIL KING SAVES A VERY SKILL PERCENTAGE OF H I S CALF CROP FOR HERD REPIACEMiSfT. AS THE
�UALITY CONTINUES TO IMPROVE HE WILL SAVE LARGER PERCENTAGE TO ADD TO THE HERD. HE
RKSTS HIS EA1LY CALVES OFF THE COW AS MILK
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F.AT CALVES, BUT THE LATE CALVES ARE FED OUT.
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VERNIL KING HAS SO HE&D OF CALVES ON FEED RIGHT IW, THEY GET CRUSHED CORK, OAT HAY, COTTON
SEES) MEAL AID SYRUP MIXED ON THE FARM INTO A FATENING RATION. VERNIL KING HAS BUILT HIS HE
METAL HANDLING CHUTE AND HEAD SQUEEZE,
DfliORNS ALL HIS CATTLE AND USES BACKRUBS AND SPRAYING FOR PARASITE CONTROL. EACH YEAR
MR, KING PUfS OUT $0 ACRES OF CORN M I C H WILL USUALLY AVBSAGE ABOUT 55 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE* HE HEEDS ALL OF I T ON BLE FARM. SLIDE FARH.8 BART RIGHT N W O
jVBRHL KING I S BUILDING THIS LIVESTOCK: SHELTER BARI DOWN IN THEPASTURE. IT I S LOCATED IN A
POSITION SO AS TO OPEN INTO IHREE PASTURES. I N THIS WAY HE PLANS TO CREtSP FEED ALL HIS
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pALVES IN THIS BARN.
BY THE WAY, ALL THIS
OPEN PASTURE LAND YOU � H HESB HAS BEEN CLEARED BY VERNIL KING SINCE HE BOUGHT THE LAND. THOUGH MOST OF HIS CATTLE ARB GRADE STOCK, THEY SLIDE FARM-9 BULL ALL BRED TO REGISTERED BULLS. VERJTIL KING
HAS THIS FINE REGISTERED HEREFORD BULL AND A REGISTERED SHORTHORN BULL. PERMANENT GRAZING
FOR HIS HERD CONSISTS OF 2 7 5 ACRES OF OPEN RAZING LAND, WITH ISO ACRES OF IT IN IMPROVED PASTURES WHICH ARE LIMED AND NITRATED AND CLIPPED REGULARLY FOR WEED CONTROL. TEMPORARY
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GKA2IMG COHSISfS OP 7 5 ACRES OF HAY Affl) YETCH. A F T E R THE CATTLE AKB TAKSN OFF IK' MAKCH THE
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OATS ARB EITHER CUT FCR HAY OH COMBINED.
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SO ACRES I S CUT FOR HAY AND 2 5 ACRES I S COMBINE) � E � N I L KING PUTS UP ABOUT 4 * 0 0 0 BALES OF OAT AJfD LESPEDEZA HAY BACH Yx&R AID ALL OF I T I S F E D OH THE FARM, THE CATTLE GET HAY FREE CHOICE
DURING THE WINTER MONTHS AID WHEETEVER GRAZING
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I S SHORT DUE TO DRY WMTHJiS.
WATER FOR THE ,
jLIYBSTOCK I S SUPPLIED PROM THIS LIVE STREAM TEA1 ! mm THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF HIE FAKH AND WiilCH THIS WATER SUPPLY I S
HAS NEVER BBfiH DRY.
SUPPLEMENTED WITH ANOTHER L I ? E STREAM AND 5 STOCK POIDS MUCH yERHIL KING HAS B U I L T .
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V E R N I L IONG I S A COMPLETELY MECHANIZED FARMER. HAS TWO TRACTOHS, A HAY BAL�R, COMBINE, PASTURE CLIPPER AID ALL THE NECESSARY CULTIYATI EQUIPMENT. ALL OF H I S EQUIPMENT I S KEPT UNDER 113 HAS 3 6 ACP.ES II
SHELTER WHEN NOT IN U S E .
COTTON WHICH I S HANDLED ON THE SHARES BY TWO FAMILIES. ALL RECOMMENDED COTTON H A C T I C E S ARJE
FOLLOWED AMD THE YIELD AYEHAGES A LITTLE B^TTEB THAN A BALE AND A QUARTER TO THE ACHE. AT ONE HE
T I M E VERHIL KING HAD 1 0 5 ACRES IN COTTON, VOLUNTARILY REDUCED H I S ACRii&GB BECAUSE I T
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HASN*T GOOD FOR HIS LAND, AND THEN ACREAGE CONTR CONTROLS REDUCED I T EVEN MORE SO HE I S NEARLY OUT OF THE COTTON BUSINESS BY NOW. VERNIL ALSO SLIDE TIMBI IIAS 1 0 0 ACRES IN TIMBER. SOME OF I T I S TOP
DUALITY PINE TIMBER AND SOME I S TOP QUALITY IIARDWOOD TIMBER. HE WEEDS ALL Tit E UNDESIRABLE
IfARDWOOD FROM HIS PINE AND PROTECTS THE GOOD JEBCHANTABLE HARDWOOD. HE SELECTIVELY HARVEST HIS
H I S TIMBER AND PROTECTS I T FROM F I R E . ND I S FENCED AND CROSS FENCED. SLIDE PARIf-l CLEARED LAMB
A LITTLE
AGO I SHOWED YOU SOME UNO THAT HAD BRM CLEARED, WELL, HERE, I S SOME MORE. THIS STREtCH ;
PASTURE WAS ALSO CLMRED BY VERNIL KING, LL THE W Y BACK TO TdE MOODS BS THE DISTANCE. A FROM HIS TIMBER AND FROM OLD BUILDINGS ViiSNIL , HAS REBUILT MANY OF HIS PRESENT FARMiUILDINGS AID IMPROVED OTHERS, MR, AND MRS.
E R N I L KING HAVE THREE GROWING YOUNGSTERS. SLIPS FREEZ MRS, KING PRESERVES PRACTICALLY ALL THE FOOD HIE FAMILY NEEDS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE NECESSARY STAPLES. SHE HAS A ONE ACRE FAMILY FOOD REQUIREMENTS ARE CONSIDERABLE
0ARDE& AND FROM I T AND TliE LIVESTOCK AND OULTRY SHE FREEZES ABOUT 1500 POUNDS OF FOOD EACH YEAR, IS ADDITION SHE CANS ABOUT 250 JARS
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OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TliAT DON'T LEND TBEMSEL1 TOO WELL TO FREEZING. SLIDE FARJM6 I TCI MODERN KITCHEN. MRS. KING HAS A COMPLETE)
NOT ONLY I S IT MODERN BUT I T
I S ARRANGED FOR MAXIMUM COMFORT AND CONVMIMCE, iflTH THREE RATHER SMALL CHILDREN SHE LIKES TO EiAVE THEM WHERE SUE CAN KEEP AN WE ON THEM SHE
AND THUS NOT HAYS TO WORRY ABOUT THEM.
AND VERNIL SOLVED THAT PROBLEM WHEN THEY BUILT te HOUSE BECAUSE THEY LOCATED THEIR DEN RIGHT
jftDJOINING THE KITCHEN WHERE THE CHILDREN CAN AN!) MRS. KING CAN STILL CARRY ON HER SLIDE PAHMU1 KITC liOUSEKORK AID KNO� WHERE THEST ARE AND WHAT THEY DOING. IN FACT �E KERS STANDING IN IRE DEN
OOKING INTO THE KITCHM WHEN TiilS PICTURE WAS SADE. HRS. KING L I K ^ TO COOK AND SPENDS MANY
HOURS IN HER MODERN AND BMUTIFUL KITCHEN,
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ML. AND MRS. VBRNIL KING Kii�P COlfPLETE O THEIR WJkm PROGRAM AN!) TiiBY BO IT N 5 0 THAF EACH KNOWS EXACTLY HOW THETR PROGRAM I S PROGRESSING. THEIR RIDCORD KEEPING AREA BY THE WAY, THEIR FUTURE
I S ALSO IN THE D M .
JPLANS CALL FOR CLOSING I N THE CARPORT AND TAND BREEZEWAY AND MAKING I T INTO A LARGE DEN I AND PLAY AREA AND TURN THEIR PRESENT DEN INTO A STUDY AREA FOR THE CHILDREN.
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FIRS. KING LOVES TO WORK IN HER FLOWER BEDS, THE HELP BF THE COUNTY EXTENSION FOLKS SHE IIAS DEVELOPED HER SCHEME OP LANDSCAPING AND
I S GRADUALLY CARRYING I T OUT, WHILE THE KING
FARM I S VERY NEAR THE SOSO OIL FIELD THEY BO NOT HAVE OIL OF THEIR LAND AND IT I S HOT UNDEH LEASE, ALL THAT THEY HAVE AND ALL THEY ARE
DOING IIAS BEEN BY THE SEWEAT OF TIL BIS BROW WORKING THEIR FARM AND SUPPLEMENTING IT WHEN NECESSARY WITH OFF THE FARM WORK. THE THREE
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JFFONDERFUL CHILDREN I HAVE MENTIQSBD PROM TIME T |FO TIME ARE 6 ^ YMR OLD GARY, S YEAR OLD JBSVERLY JUNE AJTD 8 YEAR OLD IFANSS, THESE YOUNGSTERS ARE THE PRIDE ANT! JOY OF MR. AND |MRSVVERNIL KING AND ALL THEY ARE DOING I S [AIMED AT THE FUTURE EDUCATION AND SECURITY OF THEIR CHILDREN, ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS
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FOR THEIR WISH TO BUILD ONTO THEIR HOME I S SO THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE A PLACE TO BRING
T H E I R FRIENDS AND PLAY AT HOME, SLIDE FARiM,21 LHUBCH
THE KING
FAMILY ATTENDS AND BELONGS TO THE EBON BAPTISf CHURCH WHERE VERNIL I S A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND ASSOCIATE TRAINING UNION DIRECTOR. MRS.
KING I S VICE PEESIDMT OF HER SUNDAY SCIiOOL L u S S AND ON THE PROGRAM 6QMMITTSE OF THE WMU.
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. AND MRS. VERIIL KING ARE MHMBERS OF THEIR SCHOOL P . T . A . AND MRS. KING SERVES ON TH1 .MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE, THEY BELONG TO THE SMITH
COUNTY FARM BURIIAU AND VMKNIL I S A MEMBER OF THI INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE OF TAYLORSVILLE. ALSO ACTIVE IN LIONS CLUB WORK, HE I S
MR. AID MBS.
STTKNIL KING HAVE HAD ELECTRICITY ON THEIR FARM .EVER SINCE THEY STARTED FARMING, FURNISHED BY TUB SOUTHERN PINE IILICTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION W TAYLORSVILLE. TWO YEARS AGO THEY GOT A
TELEPHONE LIHE PAST TKEIS FARM COMSTRUCTED BY TKXE BAY SPRINGS TBLBPHONE COMPANY. THIS I S
,L FILM STORY OF A YOUHG FARM FAMILY THAT HAS HAD THE COURAGE TO COJIS TO A RUN DOWH, WORI |0UT'FARH AND WORK HARD, DOING WITHOUT MOST OF 'H� LUXURIIIS OF LIVI�G UNTIL RSCENT YEARS, IN BR TO MAKE A WAY OF Lff�l FCR THEMSELVES liiAT WOULD PROVIDE A HERITAGE FOR THEIR CHILDRE .[ AM PROUD TO SALUTE THEM AS TODAY'S HFD TBLEVISIT FARM FAMILY OF THE WESK. YOU TO MEET THEM. NOW, I WANT
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