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Howard Langfitt
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I WAKT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO SCOTT COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT MR. W.R. GAIN AND HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT, MRS. JUDITH GATEWOOD, FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH ME TO THIS FAMILY'S FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO TELL. THIS IS THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS. |
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ATLEY D. NOE& WHO LIVE ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST HF FOREST, MISSISSIPPI AND ABOUT FOUR MILES WEST OF HILLSBORO IM THE CLIFTON COMMUNITY OF SCOTT COUNT* WHKHK THEY OWN 330 ACRES AND CARRY ON A BEEF CATTLE AND TIMBER OPERATION ON ANOTHER J . O 4O A ORES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TWO OF MR. NOEL'S BhOVHERS, MR. POOLi] NOEL OF JACKSON AND MRS. CLYD;
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HOKL OF GREKNVILLE. MH. ATLEY NOEL GREW UP JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THEIR PRESENT HOME....IN FACT, IT WAS JUST THE NEXT HOUSE DOWN THE ROAD FROM THIS THEIR PRESENT HOME. HE M S FOUR BROTHERS LIVING AND TWO SISTERS AND HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ACTIVELY FARMING TODAY. ALL OF HIS BROTHERS AM) SISTBRS ATTENDED COLLEGE BUT ATLEY SAYS HE CAME UP DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS AND WASN'T ABLE TO GO. ATLEY NOEL HAS FARMED ALL HIS LIFE. FOK THREE YEARS BiuFORE HE MARRIED HE WORKED ON TH ROADS AS WILL AS FARMED AND HE SPENT THREE YEARS
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I H THE SERVICE OP H I S GOUNTRY FROM 19U2 TO 1 9 4 5 . M R S . NOEL WAS, BEFORE HER MARRIAGE, MISS THELMA
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WAGNER, AND GREW UP IN THIS SAME COMMUNITY.
SHE
AND ATLEY BOTH FINISHED SCHOOL AT CLIFTON AND HAE KNOWN EACH OTHER MOST ALL THEIR L I V E S . THEY WERE
MARRIED I N 1 9 4 6 AND MOVED INTO THIS HOUSE WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL 1 9 5 6 WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THEIR PRESENT HOME. I T SETS ON 1�O ACRES ATLEY BOUGHT ATLEY HAD BOUGHT I T PROM AN
BEFORE HE MARRIED.
UNCLE WHO RETIRED ABOUC TEE TBffi ATLEY CAME OUT
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OF SERVICE,
THE PilRTNTJRSKIP OP ATLEY NOEL AND "
H I S BROTHERS STARTED IN 1 9 4 7 WHEN HE AND ONE BROTHER BOUGHT 2 0 0 ACRES.
THEN IV 19ij.9 THE OTHER
BROTHER CAME IN AND THEY BOUGHS ANOfiHER 1 0 0 ACRES AND IN 1 9 5 6 THi.Y BOUGHT THE 80 ACRES WHERE T H I S HOUSE S E T S . THEN ATLEY TRADED THE PARTNERSHIP
A FORTY FOR TWENTY ON TBh ROAD WHICH LEFT HIM W I T S A TOTAL OF 1 3 0 ACRES. Al'LiiY NOEL STARTED
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OUT FARMING WITH COTTON AND CORN AND NO CATTLE EXCEPT ONE COW MRS. NOEL'S FOLKS GAVE HER AND ONE ffiUiY BORHOWM, FROM H I S FATHER FOR MILK. HE HAD A TB
HORSE Ai.D A FLh PLOW TOOLS AND BOUGHT A MULE.
F I R S T YEAR ATLEY NOEL HAD 1 5 - 2 0 ACRES IN COTTON. AMI; ABOUT THAT MUCH CORN. THIS YEAR HE HAS 2 5
\ ORES IN COTTON...OR AT LEAST HOPES THAT*S WHST H�. WILL HAVE WHEN I T ALL COMES U P . THIS I S FOUR
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ACRES OP COTTON ON LAND HE RENTED PROM H I S PATHSE AND. I T ' S THE ONLY COTTON THAT CAME UP TO A STAND,
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HE HAS HAD TO REPLANT THE REST AND WAS I N THE PROCESS OP DOING THAT WHEN I VISITED H I S PARM THE OTHER DAY. THE GROUND THIS FARM HAND WAS BREAKING UP
AND ATLEY WAS COMING ALONG AND ROWING MS. ATLEY NOEL HIS
I T UP MD PLANTING BEHIND HIM.
PRE-EMERGBD ALL H I S COTTON T H I S YEAR.
AVERAGE YILEDS RUN ABOUT A BALE TO THE ACRE
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FARMMAN PLANTING
THOUGH SOME OP HIS LAND PROi UCL.3 AS MUCH AS TWO BE&ES. IN THE PAST HE HAS USED SHARE OROPBERS HE I S ALSO
BUT I S USING ALL DM LABOR THIS YBAR.
USING HILL DROPPERS TKISYEAR FOR THE PIRST TIME AND 13 (BUNTING ON THESE TWO THINGS TO REDUGE I I S DAY LABOR M E E D S . . . PRE-I^MERGE AND HILL DROPPERS, THAT I S . HE FOLLOWS A COMPLETE INSECT CONTROL
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F R - -6 AMTWO MEN IN COTTON
PROGRAM, STARTING EARLY AND STAYING WITH I T THROUGH LATE SEA&ON CONTROL. ATLBY NOEL HAS ALSO
MADE AN ACRE OP LAND AVAILABLE TO THE NEWTON BRANCH EXPERIMENT STATION WHERE THEY ARE GONDUCTI1 EXPERIMENTAL MORK ON DIPPERENT APPLICATIONS OP PRE-EMERGE MkTBStUMf T'O Rii-PLANT TOO. LIKE HIM, THEY ARE HAVING
THIS I S MR. W.R. CAIN, THE GOUN5 HE SAYS HE RSLIES HEAVILY ON
AGEJIT AND MR. NOEL.
H I S COUNTY AGRICULTURAL W'OKERS FOR SOUND ADVICE. SLIDE PARM-9 4R. >TLEY ?TOSL ALSO PBANTS 2$ ACRES I N C O R N . . . .
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AND HE PRE~SMSRGED 15 ACRES OF HIS CORN THIS TRAI FOR THE FIRST TIME. HE PLANTS A RECOMMENDED AMD ADAPTED HYBRID AND TILED WILL VARY PROM l 0 TO AS j MUCH AS X16 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE DEPEM3ING ON BEE LAND WHERE IT IS PLANTED. HIS AVERAGE IS ABOOT
60 BUSHELS TO THE ACHE BUT IN THE COUNTY FIVE 0RB CONTEST HE AVERAGED 116 BUSHELS. HE TESTS HIS SOIL AND FERTILIZES ACCORDING TO EXPERIMENT STATION RECOMMENDATIONS. MOST YEARS HE FEEDS ALI SLIDE FARM-10 CATTLE THE CORN TO THE CALVES HE FEED OUT.,..THOUGH IF M HA3 A 3UKPLU3 HE DQtiS SELL SOME. ATLEY HAS
15 COWS AND CALVES OF HIS OWN BESIDES THE ONES HE mm IH PARTNERSHIP WITH HIS BROTHERS, SOME
OP HIS ARK JERSEYS AND SOME ARE WHITE FACE. HE DAIRTL3) POUR YEARS PROM 1956 TO 1959 AND SOLD MANUFACTURING MILK BUT SOLD OUT LAST TEAR BECAUSE Hb HAD I4ORK FARM PROGRAM TEAS HE COULD GET DONE, AHD COULDN'i- GET SATISFACTORY HIRED HELP TO RUN THE TAIRY PROGRAM. MRS. NOLL DID MOST OF THE MILKING THREK OF THE FIVE DAIRY COWS HE STILL
JSRSETS. HE PLAKS TO SELL ALL
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b.j.CLP'i: ThK MILK COWS THEY NEM) AND USE THE MONET TO BUY STOCKERS, AND BUILD A BEEF HERD OF HIS O H W N0^r, L E T ' S LOOK AT THE PARTNERSHIP CATTLE OPERATIi HEIFERS AND BOUGHT A ,
THffif STARTED OUT WITH k"5
ViM ALONG AND RAISED SOME OF THEIR OWN HEIFERS.
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THE NOEL BROTHERS HAVE CONSISTENTLY SAVED THEIR B E S T HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT, AND HAVE CULLED THE HERD SQHE EACH YEAR. TODAY THBIR HER!
C O N S I S T S OF 6 � HEAD OF GOWS AND C A L V E S . . . 3 5 OP Tl
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_ PARM-12 CATTLE
THEM BROOD COWS.
THEY FOLLOW A COMMERCIAL COW
AND GALF PROGRAM AND SELL THE BULK OF THE CALVES MILK FAT OFF THE COW THOUGH THEY DO FEED SOME OF THE LATE CALVES THROUGH THE WINTER AMD THES1 THEY ALSO PUT OH A CREH5 � THOSE THEY FEED OUT ON
THEY PUT ON OATS FOR &RAZING AHu FULL FEm SLIDE FARM-1 -13 G&TS CORN.
THEY CALFHGQD VACCINATE AND ALSO GIVE A
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MIEY ARK BUILDING THE HERD YET AND
IT IS TflBIR HOPE TO AT LEAST DOUBLE THE SIZE.. ATLkY SiiYS THEY HAVE PLENTY OF PASTURE TO DO IT. THEY USK A POLLED HEREFORD BULL IN THE BREEDING PROGRAM AND A'i'LhY SAYS WHEN HIS OWN HERD WILL ftKRANT IT m
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PLANS TO GET O N OF HIS OWN FOR HIS .E
HERD, PERMANENT PASTURE FOR LIVESTOCK CONSISTS OF 55 'ACRES OF WHISK DUTCH, DALLIS AND CARPET AND LESPEDEZA ON ATLEY�S LAND WHICH HE LIMEj FWi'ILIZU* USING CHICKEN FERTILIZER WHICH IS READILY AVAILABLE IN THE AREA. ON THE PARTNERSHIP
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LAND THERE' IS 1^0 ACRES IN ABOUT THE SAMS GRASSES AHD THIS TQO IS LIMED AND FERTILIZED. ALL PASTURI GLIPPM) RKGULARLY FOR Wm> CONTROL. TEMPORAF'!
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PASTURE CONSISTS OF 12 ACRES OF OATS ON ATLEY�S LAND AMP 25 ACRES ON THE PARTNERSHIP LAND. IT IS ALL GRAZED ALL THE WAY DOWN. WHEN ATLEY WAS DAIRYING HE PLANTED MILLET IN THE SUMMER. HE HAD PLENTY OP PASTURE FOR THEIR BEEF OPERATION.
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TIMBER ALSO PLAYS AN IMPORTANT BIHT, BOTH IN ffiLKY'S OWN FARM PROGRAM AND IN THE PROGRAM CARRIED O l BY HE AND HIS BROTHERS. HE HAS 1$ i ACRES OP HIS OWN AMD THE PARTNERSHIP HSS 260 MORES, TWENTX TB THIRTYfiCftcSIS IN HARDWOOD PINE. TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT
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WORK HAS BEEN DOHK OH 90 ACHES. IT HAS BEEN THIMMSD km WEEDED AND HE SELECTIVELY HARVESTS.
IN FACT BTBEY HAS SOMEONE GOME IN AND MARK WHIT
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FOR LIVESTOCK,
JM SUPPLIED PHOM 6 STOCK PONDS AND ONE RUNNING S'PHBAM. I GOTJU) TELL MUCH MORK ABOUT THIS FINE
FARM PROGRAM BUS WE'LL ASK ATLEY ABOUT I T I N A
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RIGHT NOW I WANT TO TELL YOU OF PROGRAM.
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SHE DOES THE GARDENI*
AND HAS ABOUT A QUARTER OP AN ACRE OF YEAR ROUND GAKDEI PLUS THE SEASONAL PATCHES IN THE FI3SLD.
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GARDEN AND PROM HER POULTRY FL0(K ,
CHICKENS
, BY VIIE VJAY, NUI^IBERS ABOUT Z$ LAYERS AND
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PROHWHICH SHE SELLS SURPLUS EGGS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ..AND FROM SOME BROILERS FOR POOD, SHE EACH
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TEAR PUTS IN THE FREE2ER CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OP MEAT, VEGETABLES AND FRUIT ALL TOLD ABOUT
125 QUARTS OP PRUIT MB VEGETABLES, 380 FOUNDS OF MEAT AND ?5 POUNDS OP CHICKEN MEAT. BESIDES WHAT IS POT IN THE FREEZER, HRS. NOEL iiLSO PUTS SLIPS PARM-2X WOMEN & GANNI&G UP A LOT OF POOD IN JARS ABOUT 27$ QUARTS OP
SUdi THimS AS PEAS, BUTTERBEANS, CORN, SNAP BEANS, SQUASH, PICKLBS, PIGS, PEARS AND BLACK BERklES. MRS. JUDITH GATEWOOD, SHOWN HERB ON
THE RIGHT, IS SCOTT COUNTY HORL DEMONSTRATION AOfeHT AND SHK HAS BKB1T A GREAT JiELPT TO MRS. NOEL IN HER HOMEMAKING PROGRAM AND CERTAINLY MRS. NOEL IAS BBkW A BICf HELP r2Q MRS GATEWOOD IN THE OVERALL HOME DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SLIDE FARM-22 STOVE MRS. NOEL
SAYS SHE LIKK3 TO COOK, THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OB1 10: TO DO WITH ONLY TWO OP THEM TO COOK POH. SHE ALSO LIKES TO WORK IN HER GARDEN, WITH SHE ALSO
ffi.R CHICKENS AND IN HER FLOWER BEDS. SLIDE SEWING ROOM
DOES MOST ALL HER OWN SEWING AND MAKES DRAPERIES, AND CURTAINS, SHE ALSO QUILTS AND CROCHETS. SHE IS ESPECIALLY PROUD OP THE OVERSIZED IRONING BOABD WHICH MR. NOEL MADE POR HER BECAUSE IT SAVES HER MANY STEPS AND MAKt,S POR EASIER IRONING, MRS. NOEL IS ESPECIALLY ADEPT AT ABRANdlSG THINGS
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SO AS TO SAVE TIME AM) LABOR.
BESIDES THE
REGULAR ACTIVITIES OP OPERATING THEIR OWN PROGRAM MR. AND MRS. ATLEY NOEL ARE VERY ACTIVE IN THE
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AFFAIRS OF THEIR COMMUNITY. THEY WERE INSTRUMENT! IN HELPING TO GET THE RLIFTON COMMUNITY CLUB UNDERWAY. IT WAS ORGANIZED IH 1957 AND THEIR
CLUB BUILDING IS AN ABANDONED SCHOOL HOUSE IN TIE COMMUNITY, THE CLIFTON COMMUNITY C LUB IS ONE OF
THE OUTSTANDING CLUBS IN THE COUNTY AND IN OUR STATE.
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THEY WERE COUNTY COKKUHITY DEVELOPMENT
CLUB WINKERS FOR W O YH/JIS. &MOIB THE MANY MOST WORTHWHILE PROJECTS OF TJJL CLUB ARE A HEALTH PROGRAM, I I I H WAS JUSS RECENTLY STARTED, A -EC REPRESENTATIVE OP THECQUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT COMBS OUT TO TIIE CLUB HQUSL TIL, THIRD THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH AND CJIV-S IMUNI2ATI0N SHOTS TO CHILDRK IN THE COMMUNITY. HERE WE Siu, iES. NADIHE B
BUHHOUGHS, COUUl'I HEALTH NURSE, GIVING A SHOT TO YOUNG MASTER BILL RIGBY, SON OF MR. AND MRS, ROBERT HULON RIGBY OF CLIFTON. COMMUNITY. OTHER
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V A T , �.aBB3Ci*-?IHa AROUND 1 5 RESIDENCES IN THE C O l t ' I U H I T Y , RAT ERADICATION, MAILBOX NAME PLAT! S A1ID FAINT "AID CONTINOINO WORK ON GETTING BETTER CAMERA ON FAMILY HOAIXI Mm TELEPHONE SERVICE. THIS I S TRULY A
FI.i-.ILY THAT BELIEVES IN AND WORKS WITH 'THE H I S T
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OP THE FOLKS IN THEIR COMMUNITY FOR THE GOOD OP ALL, MR. AMD MRS. ATLEY NOEL BELONG TO THE
MACEDONIA METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH WHERS ATLEY IS A STEWARD AMD AH ASSISTANT TEACHER IN THE ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLAS^. MRS. NOEL IS VICE PRESIDENT OP AND A CHARTER MBMBER OF THE CLIFTON WOm DEMONSTRATION CLUB. THEY BBLOHG TO THE FARM SURi^AU. ATLI2Y IS A MASON AND A COUNTY A.S.C. CQMMITTEEMAN. OP THERE'S SO MICH MORE
THAT COULD BE TOLD ABOUT THIS FISH FAMILY BUT N f Oc
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KCMB THAT
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YOU TO MEET THEM.
WSAT 1 3 TMK HISTORY uF TliAX LAST 80 ACRES YOU BOUGHT?
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H/vVls. YOU DOffli Ai-IY LAI� GLLARIHG? IIOU DC YOU LliG^ A mmt WAY PARTNERSHIPf
W3 Ti*LD ABOm' PASTUKL3, BUT DO YOU PUT UP �AHY EkJ CHOP?
5. 6. 7.
HAVE YOU BUILT ANY BUILDINGS? MRS HOEL, WHAT HELPS YOU MOST IN HQKEMAKISCtt HOW CA1I A HOUSEWIFE BEST HKLP WITH THE OVERAL PKO %*M%
8. 9.
UliAZ ABE ZUUR KOBBIES? BOTS...V/IIAT DOMS YOUR COMMUNITY MK.N TO YOU?
