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MM T TO SAY I I THE VERY 3EGIMING THAT I AM BRY GRATEFUL TO JASP3SR COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGEN1 . C . JBPCOAT AND ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT HUBMf SUGGS FOE THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP XN SEIECTOC 'ME FAMILY MUCH WE SALUTE TODAY AID ESPECIALLY MR. SUGGS FOR GOING WITH M TO THE PA8?i TO THIS
)BTAIN TIIE STORY WHICH I AM ABOUT TO TELL. SLIDE FARM-1 HWSK ::S THE STORY OF MR. AHD MIS, L�X 0 , MOSS HHO
LIVE ABOUT FIVE MILES SGUIH OF SfRIlGER M B I L E S VflBlH IF IAUHEL 01 HIGHWAY I S . MRS, MOSS FORMERLY A STRIHGffi, IK FACT A SISTER TO .VIS STRINGER W O WE SALUTED OS THIS PROGRAM HM TIME AGO. SHE GRW ITP IH THE NEXT HOME LEX MOSS GREW UP IK
ORTH OF TIIBIR PRESENT HOME.
ITHIK A HALF MILE OF THEIR PRESENT HOME.
BACT THEY WEHT TO SCHOOL AM) CHURCH TOGETHER AS CHILDREN. THEY BOTH PUYED BASKETBALL IN HIGH
CHOOL AND STILL HAVE A DEEP LOVE F(R THE GAME. . AND MRS. LEX MOSS WERE MARRIED I � 1939 AND HE FIRST YEAR OF THETR JftRRIED LIFE THEY REMTE� ND ON THE SHARES FROM LEX'S BROTHER. ONE HORSE AND RAISED CORN AND COTTOU. THEY HAD DURING
THAT YEAR MR. AND MRS. LEX MOSS BOUGHT 80 ACRES ORTH EAST OF STRINGER AND THE! DECIDED NOT TO 0 � E TO IT AND BUILD AM) GAVE I T TO LEX'S BROTHEI
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AND CAME DOTfN TO THEIR PRESENT LOCATION AND
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OUGHT 45 ACRES OF THE 80 ACRES WHICH THEY NOW
LAWD
(WIT. THEY BUILT THEIR FIRST HOUSE ON THIS SITE apr FEBRUARY OF 1 9 4 1 . AT THAT TIME THEYRDIDIIf*f�?: VE ANY LAND FRONTING ON THE HICHWAY. I T E I S ABOUT A MILE BACK IN THE FIEDO, THIS r.\
LEX BUIIi
TPEIR FIRST HOUSE HIMSELF BY CUTTING THE TIMBER
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HIS LAND.
LEX MOSS GREW UP IN A FAMILY OF IN FACT I T
VRPEMTERS AID KNEW THE TRADI WELL.
IS SERVED HIM �ELL OVER THE YMRS AS HE HAS JILT WmY BUILDING ON THE PLACE, AND THERE ARE MR. AMD MRS. LEX MOSS LIVED THEY HAD ABOUT
J I T E A Fm OF THEM. CK IN THE VEM UP Mt
FCR SIX YEARS.
IDEA OF EVER BEING ABLE TO BUY THE IN FACT, THEY
ND FRONTING ON THE HIGHWAY.
D JUST FINISHED PUTTING DOTS THE WELL YOU SEE
THE
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AND WAS FIXING TO WT IN A
BATHROOM WHEN THE OWNER OF THE 3 5 ACRES FRONTING THE HIGHWAY OFFERED TO S E H . IT TO HIM. LEX )SS SAYS HE DROPPED EVERYTHING RIGHT THEN AM) THERE AND VENT TO WORK BUILDING THEIR PRESENT
II >ME ON I T ' S PRESENT SITE FRONTING ON HIGHWAY I S .
THAT WAS T M YEARS AGO, AND WITH Tlim MOVE LEX
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)SS BEGAN A PROGRAM OF IMPROVEMENT THAT CONTINUE THIS DAY. IN 1942 LEX MOSS MADE HIS FIRST
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TESWRE INTO THE POULTRY" BUSINESS AN I? HE*S BBS? I'M IT mm SIHCBj I I FACT HAS GRS&TLY EXPANDED JE� LEX GOT INTO THE POULTRY BUSINI
1 RECENT YEARS.
THEIR WAS A DIMkM FOR INCREASED POULTRY 'RODUCTION AS THE NATION GKARED TO FEED OUR HUGS ARMIES. LEX WAS WORKING AT MASONITE AT BIB
IME MD A FRIEND ADVISED HIM TO GO HOME TO THE IfARH M B RAISE CHICKENS. BE D.D AND IT HAS BEEN TO GO
GOOD PROGRAM FOR TUB LEX MOSS FAMILY. SLIDE FARM-4 CHICKEN HOUSE
CX TO THAT BB&IOTIKG, LEX MOSS STARTED WITH 0 0 LAYERS I I THIS OLD HOUSE. H COMMERCIAL MARXET. HE RAISED BGGS FOR
LEX KEPT 600 LAYERS EVBH! THAT
YBAR UNTIL 1948 WHEH HB BEGAN TO EXPAND.
i X P A I S I O I f STARTED WITH THE PURCHASE OF TI1E3S ilCRES OF UN!) FRONTING ON THE HIGHIfAY. MWK MR,
AND MRS. LEX MOSS MOVED FROM THE OLD HOME TO i l E I R PRESENT HOME, TflET MOVED THE OLD IAYING
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OUSE TOO.
TODAY IT�S JUST A REMINDE1 OF THOSE IN 1948 LEX
�ARLY DAYS OF POULTRY PRODUCTION. SLIDE FARM-5 BROODER HOUSES
i>OSS EXPANDED FROM 600 TO 2 , 0 0 0 BIRDS AND
INTO THE HATCHING EGG BUSINESS.
HE SAYS HE
SJTARTSD If m i THE FORREST COUNTY CO-OP AND HAS WITH THEM EVER SINCE. LEX MOSS WAS ONE OF
E FIRST FARMERS IN JASPER COUNTY TO TURN TO LTRY PRODUCTION. HIS SUCCESS AND I3JC0URAGEME*
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0 OTHERS M S LEAD MAST 1ST0 THE HATCHING BGG S I N E S S IN THAT AREA DUKISG THE YEARS S I N C E . MOSS HAS F I B B OF THESE BROODER HOUSES A I D [EY HOLD 5 0 0 CHICKS EACH. THEY TOU WERE ffiJILT LEX MOSS BUYS
BY LEX MOSS FROM H I S OWN TIMBER. Y OLD BABY CHICKS FOR 850
EACH...THEY ARE THE
DC OCX BESSIE STRAIN AND ALL PRODUCTION GOES TO I E FORREST COUNTY COOPERATIVE, DAY OLD CHICKS THEY WILL I ASH
EKT INTO TU3SE HOUSES LAST TUESMY.
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WHILE I S THE BROCDS? HOUSE THI
C I I I C X S HILL BE PBD A STARTS? MASH W� S I X WHEES 1 1 E l TOOLE OATS GIVEN TO T H M STARTING AT THE SMCOM) K�EK AND GRADUALLY I2TCREASED. AT S I X
OF AGS XIIET BEGIN TO GST GROWISG MASH AND L I T T L E CHOPS. THE CHOPS ARE GRADUALLY INCRJEASI
l l N T I L BUB 2 , 0 0 0 BIRDS ARE EATING ABOUT 8 0 POUNDS
A DAY.
AT 1 3 WEEKS THEY WILL BE EATING 1 2 0 POUNi BY THAT TIME LEX MOSS TO LAST THEM TO THE
OF WHOLE OATS PER M Y . I UTS OUT ONLY M0UGH
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MIDDLE OF THE EVENING.
AT 1 6 TO 1 8 WEEKS OF AGE,
HtlEN THEY ARE I N ABOUT 1 0 ^ PRODUCTION THE PULLSTI SLIDE FARMTAXING GO TO THE LAYING HOUSE, AND AT THAT TIME ALL THE HOUSB CLD BIRDS ARE SOLD. BY THIS TIME LEX MOSS KEEPS THEY
IAYINC MASH B S W R E - H I S HENS AT ALL TIMES.
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FONTJNUE TO GET 8 0 POUNDS OP COOT AT NIGHT AND [ 2 0 POUNDS OF OATS IN THE MORNING WITH 100 POUNDS I P PELLETS AT NOON, M OYSTER SHELL AID GRIT ARE
EPT BEFORE THEM AT ALL TIMES IN THE LAYING HOUSI MOSSBUILT HIS LAYING HOUSJB IN SIX SECTIONS, E PUT UP ONE SECTION ONE YEAR, THEN ANOTHER ONE,
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THREE SBCTIONS AT ONE TIME,
IN THE LAYING
HOUSE SANITATION I S STRICT.
NO MEDICATION IS
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fONB UNLESS IT I S NEEDED, BUT & STRICT VACCINATE ND HORHIFC PROGRAf IS FOLLOWS). LEX MOSS POUND
T EARLY THAT DISEASE WAS NOTHING TO GAMBLE HOT tS 1947 HE WAS KNOCKED OUT COMPLETELY WHEN 2IEICASTLB HIT HIS FLOCK AT WO WEEKS 0? AGE, VITH1N A �EMK HE HAD A NEW BATCH IN THE HOUSE, 3 V 1948 LEUKOSIS HIT HIS FLOCK AND HE LOST 900 OF HIS 2 , 0 0 0 BIRDS. THE BIRDS M E WORMED MMf
0 DAYS FROM THE TIME ttlEY ARE A DAY OLD UNTIL ARfi SOLD AT THE END OF ONE YEAR'S PR0DUCTI03 5 BEIT ARE VACCINATED AT ONE WEEK FOR NEWCASTLE ND BRONCHI I I S AMD GET A BOOSTER WHEN THEY GO IN :HE LAYING HOUSE, AT 9 TO 11 mms THBF ARE PRODUCTION
VING WEB VACCINATED FOR FOWL POX,
V I L L RANGE FROM 70 TO 90% WITH ABOUT 8$% PRODUCT,' I WRING HTACHING EGG SEASON, ALL EGGS ARE GRADED
i WD COOLED AT THE FARM AND ALL HATCHING EGl S ARE
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,OLIi FOR A QURASTEED PRICE*
ME REST OF THE
EGGS A&S SOLD ON MiE C0MSRCIAL MARKET FOR UARL MARKET PRICE, LEX JfJSS HAS HIS MAXIMUM
OUL'fKY FLOCK AM) DOJSSN'T PLAN ANY IJfCRi3ASBf IHPOR1AKT PAST OP THE LEX MOSS FARM SLIDE FARM-9 CATTLE K OGHAM I S LIV1SSTOCX AND moTURES. LWAYS HAD A FEW CATTLE. COW AND TWO HEIFERS. LEX HAS "*
IM FACf HE STARTED Will HE HAS GROSS KTO HIS
KESiflfX PROGRAM BY SAVIKG HIS BiiST HEIFERS FOR SRD RKFLACQfENT Ai�) CULLING IBiiiOLD COWS AMD HOI ALL OP HIS CULLING I S ACCORDINT TO fttODUCTIOH RBCORB. S LIDE FABM-10 CALF IN PASTURE im POLLCNS A COi�iM*CIAL CO�
CALF PROGRAM AID SELLS ME CALVES MILK FAT OFF ilifi COK. THE ONLY GRATE RAISED OF THE
MOSS FARM IS CORK AM) OATS, MOST OF IT FOR mim TO CHICKENS, HE HAS 25 ACRBS IN CORK THE COWS DOH'T IN FACT
HILCM AVISRAGBS ABOUT 60 BUSHKLS.
CET GRAIN UNLESS LEX GETS IH A TIGHT.
I S HERB HASN'T HAD ANY GRAIN THE PAST THREE &RS. SLIDE FARM-11 TOMY LEX MOSS HAS 20 BROOD COWS AND HE HOPES TO EVENTUALLY
1 REGISTERS) BULL.
CREASE THE HERD TO ABOUT 3 6 BROOD COWS BUT IIS GOING TO BUILD THE HEEDED PASTURES FIRST. 4EX MOSS FEELS THAT ADEQUATE PASTURES ARE THE I R S T ESSENTIAL BEFORE INCREASING HERD SIZE.
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PERHMK3NT PASTURE CONSISTS OF 30 ACRES OF CQKBIHATIONS OP DALLIS GRASS AID WHITE DUTCH AND STRIAGHT BERMUDA PASTURES. TEMPORARY GRAZING
C O N S I S T S PRIMARILY OF OATS PUNTED WITH VETCH, SOME TEHPORARY GRAZING CONSISTS OF A CRIMSOI qLOVER PASTURE-. LEX MOSS HAS 40 ACRES I F OATS, MBCU ':
l
� PULLS THE CATTL�i OFF 1 8 ACRES OF I T IN
IES TOP DRESSES I T M B LATER COMBINES I T FOR AlID 5E3D. fflfi REST I S GRAZBD UITTIL APRIL
I T 1 3 TURNED UNDBR AM) PLAITED TO C ORH.
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FUR jftiiS LIYBSTOCK I S SUPPLIED FROM T1ISI TOOK PON.O. ONE CRSSC ANI> WE SPRING. HATER I S
AVAILABLE THE YBAR ROUND OS HIE LEX MOSS FARM. H E HAS Wmm BEK2J WimOU? ADI3QUATE WATSR. LEX
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MOSS M S HIS FARM COMPLETELY FENCED AND CROSS I M C J 3 D WITH FOUR STRAND BARBED WIRE A I D TR&L7ED POSTS. LEX HAS DOIE QUITE A LOT OF LAND CLMRIJR THERE MAS A TIME
Ml� DRAINAGS WORK ON H I S FARM,
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WHBH SOME OF H I S PASTURE LAND HAD POT H0L5S I N I T AID GREATLY REDUCED ITS CROP U S E . LEX MOSS
WENT TO WORK AND BUILT THIS V DITCH TO TAKE THE M T E R OFF THE LAND, GIYE I T PROPER YEAR I0UMD D M I N A G E AND THEREBY BRING I T INTO TOP PRODUCTIVE
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ACTUALLY LEX MOSS M S CLEARED ABOUT 20 ACRES OF H I S LAND. THIS OAT GRAZING I S THE FIELD THAT
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IEE PRAISED BY CONSTRUCTING THE � DITCH, IT.
HE ALSO
AT ONE TIME THIS OPEN FIELD LOOKE
L I E S THS WOODED AREA YOU SEE IN THE MCK CROTJffl). LEX MOSS DOES ALL HIS O N WORK* W HS
I A S A LITTLE TIMBER OH THE FARM. ROUGH TIMBER BUT HE DOES PLAN TO
IT I S MOSTLY THIN AM) WEED
I FEW ACRES AND ENCOU3AGS I f TO RE-SEM) FOR A ANNUAL TIMBER CROP, LEX IIQSS TESTS ALL HIS SOIL MOST OF
AW FERTILIZES ACCOSDINff 10 SOIL NEH)S.
H I S FERTILIZER IS SUPPLIED PROM HIS CHICKEN HOUSES. ; S BELIEVES IN HAVISG TOP QUALITY p a y HIS LIVHSTXK AND FOR HIS POULTRY IIABC 35 AMD HE BELIEVES IS AVOIDIFG OVSRGHAZIIG. SLIDE FOOD AM FEED ARE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE OF THE LEX MOSS FARM. THEY HAVE ABOUT AH ACRE AND A QUA1TB FROM IT MB BIEIR MBIT
CP YEAR ROlMTi GARDEN.
SUPPLY MRS. MOSS F'^EEZiS ABOUT 1500 POUNDS OF FOOD ARD CANS ANOTHER 125 JARS OF JELLIES, PICKLES ASD SO FORTH. SLIDE FAR11 KITCHM CdiPLETELY MODERN. MRS. MOSS'S UOMJB I S
I AM SORRY MY FLASH ATTACH
FOR MY CA!iEHA FAILED Mi Affl) I DON'T HAVE AS
OR AS GOOD PICTURES OF MRS. MOSS*S HOIIE AS
ifOULD LIKE. HOffBVER, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO
KNOW THAT MRS. MOSS LOVES TO COOK AND SEW ASID WEB MUCH OF THE SETOG FOR HER HIREd DAUGHTERS.
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7 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER CAROL I S ALSO A GOOD COOK A FINE SEEMSTRBSS AND MAKES MANY OF HER OWN CjLOTHSS ANT) FURNISHING I N THE MOSS HOME. MR AND
j p s . LEX MOSS HAVE THREE DAUGHTERS, CAROL, 1 2 EA.R OLD JANIB AND TO? Y B � OLP JOAN, THEX
FAMILY I S VERY ACTIVE I N THE AFFAIRS OP THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEIR COUNTY. SLIDE FARM-18 CHURCH THEY ARE MEMBERS OF
I E PIEASAIT HOME BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE LEX TEACHES 1KB YOUNG PEOPLE*S SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS. 3 ALSO SERVED ON K B BUILDING COMMITTEE OF THBH IURCH AIM WAS CHURCH TREASURER FOR ONE YEAR, BY THE WAY, TSIE CHURCH MEMBERS DID ALL HIE FORK N BUILDING 'THIS FINE COUNTRY CHURCH, MRS, MOSS
F III 75..E PRIMARY DEPARTMENT FOR MANY YEARS. I E I S CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMUNITY MISSION COHMITTI THE H . K . U . AND SHE DRIVES A ROUTE EVMY CARRYING CHILDREN TO THEIR VACATION BIBLE :HOOL AND THEN WORKS IN THE VACATION BIBLE HOOL TO HELP MAKE I T A SUCCESS. CAMERA ON FAMILY MRS. LEX MOSS
; ALSO PRESIDENT OF THE PLEASANT HOME HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB, SECRETARY OF THE STRINGER HOOL P . I . A . , ROOM MOTHER FOR THE FIETH GRADE,
4TP HAS IN FACT BEEN A ROOM MEMBER FOR THE PAST YEARS. MBS, MOSS I S ALSO SECRETARY-TREASURER
F THE JASPER COUNTY POULTRY ASSOCIATION.
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. LEX MOSS IS A MEMBER 07 THE BOARD OF DIRECTOI OF THE JASPSR COUNTY COOPERATIVE, 01 THE BOARD OF THE JASPER COUNTY PAM BUREAU, VICE PRESIDENT OF THS STRINGER SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB* A PAST VICE iflESIDSNT OP THE JASPER COUNTY POULTSY ASSOGXJkfty AND WAS A TRUSTEE OP THE MQSSVTLLB AND STRINGER SCHOOLS UNTIL THEY WERE CONSOLIDATED LAST YEAR, Jj,EX MOSS IS A MASON, PAST A . S . C . COMITTEEMAN, 4ND PAST SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE DISTRICT OMISSOTER. 17 YMR OLD CAROL IS DXRECTCR OP SHK IS A
THE TRAINING UNION AT THEIR CKUBCH.
JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR AID ON THE IASRETBALL TEAM. MBIBERS. JANI1 MB JOAN ARE 4*H CLUB .
JANIE I S ON THE �C" BASKETBALL TEAM
Mm BOTH JANIE AND JOAN PLAY THE PMITO,
MR. AND
I R S , LEX KOSS HAVE BEST ON THS BAIANCED FARM AND S O � FROC-RAH FOR THE FAST YEAR, AND HAVE WOMCED \mt CLOSELY WITH ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT HUBERT HUBERT SAYS THEIR GREATEST EFFORT UNDER BEEN TO IMPROVE THE FLAMING
SUGGS.
1HE PROGRAM HAS
ON PASTURES AND FERTILIZATION AND GET UP A BETTB SET OF FABf RECORDS. I COULD GO ON ASD ON
iLLING YOU OF OTHER ACCOMPLISElffiTS OF THIS FHK AMILY BUT WE WOULDN'T EAVE TIME FOR YOU TO BBfl HHEM AND I DO WANT YOU TO. . . . S O HERE THEY ARE.
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