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I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM BEEPLY GRATEFUL TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY AGRIOULTURA AGENT, JOHN KILLEBREW, FOR HIS VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AM) FOB ARRANGING FOR A NUMBER OF OTHER FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEH IMPORTANT TO THIS FARMERS
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SUCCESS TO BE OH THE FARM WITH US TOO. LET ME IDENTIFY THEM FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, SINCE YOU'LL BE SEEING VARIOUS ONES OF THEM IN THE PICTURES WHICH HELP TO TELL THIS STORY. LEFT TO RIGHT, ARE MR. OTIC MOORE, A SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE STUDENT TRAINEE WHO IS A SENIOR AT MISSISSIPPI STATE...DAN MILES, COUNTY SUPERVISOR OP THE FARMER'S HOME ADMINISTRATION.�.SHIRLEY SMITH, SOIL CONSERVATIONIST WITH THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, COUNTY AGENT, JOHN KILLKBREW...CONSERVATION AIDE, l&MIE COLLINS,....COUNTY A.S.C, OFFICE MANAGER, TRAVIS LAND AND JIM PRESLEY, NORTH MISSISSIPPI STATE MANAGER FOR THE LOUISIANA SEED COMPANY. THEN HSXT IS THE FARMER WHICH WE SALUTE AND TWO OF HIS SONS....MR. CURTIS RILEY AND SONS, 12 YEAR OLD RANDY AND 17 YEAR OLD H.C. ALL OF THESE MAN AND OTHERS HAVE HELPED AND CONTINUE TO HELP MAKE THE RILEY FARM PROGRAM THE SUCCESS IT IS, MR. AK
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MRS. CURTIS C, EILSY AND THREE OF THEIR FIVE SLIDE FAEM-2 CHILDREN LIVE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY HOME ABOUT FOUR MILES NORTHEAST OF DUCK HILL, MISSISSIPPI IK MONTGOMERY COUNTY. ACTUALLY I HAD PLANNED TO BRING YOU THIS STORY ABOUT A YEAR AGO BUT JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE I WAS TO VISIT THEIR FARM THEIR HOME BURNED TO THE GROUND AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO SAVE A THING FROM IT. THEY SLIDE FARM* HOUSE HAVE SINCE BUILT THIS LOVELY HOME, DOING THE WORJ THEMSELVES. CURTIS RILBY WAS RAISED ON THIS LAHJ HE HAS FARMED ALL HIS LIFE EXCEPT FOR SOME CARPENTER WORK HE HAS DONE ON THE SIDE. IT HS SURELY CAME IN HANDY WHEN THEY HAD TO REBUILD. HE DID ALL THE BUILDING HHIMS1LF, INCLUDING THE INSIDE FINISHING, WHICH IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL. MRS. RILEY GREW UP NEAR MOHTICKLLO, ARKANSAS. THEY MET THROUGH MUTUAL RELATIVES WHEN SHE WAS VISITING IN THE DUCK HILL AREA. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 193? AND CUI*TIS WAS FARMING WITH HIS FATHER AT TH-.TIME. THE FIRST YENL OF THEIR MARRIED LIFE THEY WERE TENNANTS ON THIS 500 ACRE! FARM...THEN CURTIS* FATHER GAVE EACH OF HIS � CHILDREN 70 ACRES OF LAND AND CURTIS AND HIS WIFE MOVED ONTO THEISS. IN 19^2 THE RILEY FARM WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE GOVERNMENT TO BE USED AS A H
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PART OP CAMP MCOAIH, MR. AHD MRS. CURTIS RILEY MOVED 'SEAR VAIDEH WHERE THEY BOUSHf A 680 AGRE FARM AND FARMED THROUGH 19l}�. THEN CAM? MCCAIN WAS DISMANTLED AID TE& LAND SOLD BAGE TO THE ORIGimL OWNERS IF THEY WANTED IT, CURTIS FATHER BOUGHT HIS BACK AHD CURTIS CAME BACK AM) BOUGHT 33.8 ACRilS PROM HIS FATHER. THEN IN 1950
HE BOUaHT HIS FATHER OUT AHD TODAY OWNS �0Q ACRES.
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CONCERNS CURTIS RILEY AMD HIS SON* B.C. FOR IT IS A PARTNERSHIP STORY BETWEEN THE TWO.. .A FATHER-SON FARM PROGRAM WITH JOINT OWNERSHIP OF EVERYTHING. MISSISSIPPI HAS ALREADY HEARD HUGH OFTHIS YOUNG MAN AND I PREDIGT EVEN GREATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIE IH THE FUTURE, I�LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT H.C, IH A FEW MINUTES, BUT RIGHT HOW I WAMT TO TELL OF HIS AND HIS FATHER�S FARM
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OPERATION. FOR MANY YEARS CURTIS RILEY RAISED COTTOM AND CORN AND BEEF CATTLE, IN FACT HE STILL RAISES COTTON AND CORN BUT NOT BEEF. THIS YEAR THE RILEY�S HAVE Si ACRES IN COTTON WHICH IS HANDLED ON THE SHAHES WITH TENHANTS. THEIR PRODUCTION IISTORY IS AN AVERAGE OF BETTER THAN A BALE TO THE ACRE. THEY FERTILIZE ALL THL ROW
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KILLBBREW AND CURTIS CHECKING FOR BOLL WEEVILS, THEIR COTTON IS IN GOOD SHAPE AM) THE WEEVILS A ARE FEW, ALL COTTON IS PICKED BY HAND AND THBY HAVE IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT TO COVER 15 AORES AT A TIME IP IT IS NEEDED. THEY USE BOTH SPRINKLER AND PFIDOD TYPE IRRIGATION.
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RILKY ALSO HAVE \\$ ACRES IN CORN, THEY PLANT FUNK'S G HYBRID...G-7U ON ALL EXCEPT ONE FIELD OF G-779-W* THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THEY HAVE REALLY TRIED FOR A HIGH YIELD AND THIS FIELD LOO� LIKIS IT WILL GO WELL OVER XOO BUSHELS TO THE A ORE, UP TILL LAST YEAR THEIR AVERAGE PRODUCTIQI HAS ABOUT 35 BUSHELS TO THE AGREF BUT THEIR GOING INTO THE HOG BUSINESS NOW AND NEED MORE FBI S O THEY HAVE SET ABOUT TO PRODUCE IT. THE MAM
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ON THE RIGHT IS SIM PRESLEY, STATE MANAGER FOR T H E NORTH PART OF MISSISSIPPI FOR LOUISIANA SEED COMPNAY, THE FOLKS WHO PRODUCE FUHK*S G HYBRIDS FOR SOUTHERN FARMERS. HE HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH GURTIS IN HIS CORN PRODUCTION PROGRAM. RIGHT
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NOW CURTIS AND H�C, RILET HAVE 32 HEAD OF HOKS ...FIVE BROOD SOWS...TWO DUROCS AND THREE HAMPS. THEY BOUGHT FEEDER PIGS FIRST AND JUST BOUGHT THE SOWS. THEY HAD V? TONS OF MILO LAST YEAR AND
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BOUGHT THE HOGS TO FFED IT UP.1 HOWEVER, THEY HOPE TO EXPAND THE HOG PROGRAM AS A PERMANENT FART OF THE RILE? FARM PROGRAM. IK MAY OP
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GURTIS BILEY HAD 75 GOOD QUALITY HEREFORD BROOD GOWS AND WAS STRICTLY IN THE BEEP BUSINESS BUT THEY WEREN'T SUPPORTING HIS FAMILY PROPERLY SO CURTIS RILEY SOLD THEM AMD BOUGHT 30 GUERNSEY COWS AW MILKED %$ THE FIRST YEAR. CURTIS SAYS HE MADE MORE MOM1Y OOT? OF Z$ DAIRY GOWS THAN H E HAD OUT OF ?� BEEF, ...AND BESIDES THAT SAYS
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CURTIS RILEY, DAIRYING KEEPS YOU HOME SO YOU*RE HOT OUT SPENDI1G YOUR MOHEY. CURTIS STA1TED DAIRYING SELLISG KAHOPACTURIBG MILK TO PET MILK COMPANY. HE BUILT THE BASIC UNIT OF HIS PRESEHf
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DAIRY BARN AT THAT TIME. IN SEPTEMBER OF CURTIS AND H.C. RILEY CHANGED OVER TO A GRADE "A" PROGRAM AND THEIR MILK STARTED GOIHG TO GREHADA FARMS, INCORPORATED. WHEN THEY CHANGED TO THE GRADE "A" PROGRAM THEY ADDED THE WASHING ROOM AND PROCESSING ROOM. TODAY THE RILEY FAMILY
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MILKS 25 COWS, MOSTLY GRADE AMD MOSTLY GUERNSEYS. THEY HOPE TO STLADILY INCREASE THEIR HERD SIZE AS THEY ARE ABLE AND WOULD LIKE ONE DAY TO BE , MILKING 200 HEAD. UP TO THIS POINT CURTIS RILEY AND H.C. HAVE BOUGHT ALL THEIR ANIMALS EXCEPT
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1IIXL L I T E R S YEAR.
, a i ( S l WILL GO IN THE BARN T H I S THEY SAVE THEIR
THESE THEY HAVE RAISED,
H E I F E R S ONLY PROM THE HIGHEST PRODUCING COWS. THEY- USE TWO COW TO CAN MILKERS AND THE MILK I S P I C K E D UP EACH DAY. CURTIS RILEY AND SOU, H.C.
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KNOW EXACTLY WHICH COWS ARE THE HIGH PRODUCERS TOO. THEY KEEP DAILY PRODUCTION RECORDS ON
EVERY COW AMD AT THE END OP EACH J4OHTH THEY TRANSFER THESE RECORDS TO A CARD INDKX SO THEY
HAVE A HISTORY OP PRODUCTION ON EACH ANIMAL. THEY m<M FOR A FACT THAT AVERAGE PRODUCTION
R I G H T B W I S ABOUT 8 , 0 0 0 POUNDS.. .THAT THE 1 9 5 8 AVERAGE WAS 6 , 0 i | 3 POUNDS AND THAT THEY EXPERT THE AVERAGE FOR 1 9 � 9 TO BE ABOUT 7 * 0 0 0 POUNDS,
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THE HERD I S TB AND BANGS TESTED. ASD THEY CALFHOOJ VACCINATE, EVERYO8E WORKS IH THE DAIRY PROGRAM.
RAHDY HELPS WITH THE FEEDING AMONG OTHER THIMQS. COWS I N THE BARN GET A 1 6 ^ RATION OP CRUSHED CORN AND CONCENTRATE, DRY COWS ARE FED ONLY GUfiTIS RILEY HAS 1 0 0
DURING THE WINTER MONTHS.
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ACR1JS OP AS GOOD PERMANENT PASTURE AS YOU COULD WANT BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HE DEPENDS ON FOR H I S D A I R Y GRAZING. HIS PASTURE PROGRAM I S WHERE HE
HAS HAD GREATEST USE OP A . S . C , PAYMENTS AND T R A V I S LAND, IN THE CENTER, HAS HELPED HIM HERE.
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C R- I i -CREDITS HXS INCREASED MILK PRODUCTION TO Ur?f PROPS? GRACING. HE HAS BETWEEN 8-10 MONTHS OP GOOD GRAZING EACH YEAR, GURUS WILL SELL YOU THAT A COW WQN*T GIVE MILK OH JUST ANY KIND OP GRASS, HIS PASSfiRE PROGRAM IS RASED ENTIRELY
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H&VJSR HIT PERMANENT PASTIME UNTIL THEY ARE DRY* HE GOBS FROM OATS TO SUDAN TO MILLET AND BAOK TO OATS, HE PUTS OUT 30 TO 60 ACRES II OATS WITH SEEDING STAGGERED 10-15 ACRES TWO WEEKS APART. HE USUALLY GUTS HAY FROM HALF AND COMBINES ENOUGH FOR SEED,fifciHAS fBM ACRES IN SUDAN AMD 2k I f MILLET. IN ADDITION THE RILKYSS PUT UP f 2,000 BALES OF HAY AMD ABOUT ^00 TOMS OF SORGHUM SILAGE EACH YEAR. WITH THE HELP OF MR, DAN
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MILES COUNTY SUPERVISOR OF THE HARMER�S HOME ADMINISTRATION CURTIS RILEY WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS i . 7 ACRE LAKE AND BUY IRRIGATIOH EQUIPMENT j, WITH P.H.A. FINANCING. HE BOUGHT THE EQUIPMENT TWO YEARS AGO, SET IT UP AM) RUN IT OME NIGHT A M HASH�T NEEDED IT SINCE, BUT IT*S MIGHTY GOOD
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INSURANCE. CURTIS RILEY HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE AMD THE SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS. THE RILEY FARM IS A PART OF THE BOGUE CREEK WATERSHED
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PROGRAM AW UllDili THE PROGRAM MANY IMPORTANT SOIL AND WATER CONSERVING PRACTICES ARE BEING fiARRISD OUT. CURTIS AND THESE SOIL TECHNICIANS
HAVE BUILT THIS GULLY PLUG TO HELP STOP WASHING. TEE WASHING AWAY OF THE SOIL STARTED WHEN THE FARM.20SLIDE FARM~gQ TOP SOIL WAS TAKE!? FROM THE LAND IN THE BUILDING OP CAMP MCCAIN. WITH SUCH GULLEY PLUGS AND SEEDING OF GRASS AND PLANTING OP TREES IT IS THEIR HOPS TO HEAL THE M U & l f EROSION AND PREVENT OTHERS. IN ONE BLOCK OF 80 ACRES OF KILEY LAND THEY HAVE PLANTED 80,000 PIHE SEEDEXN LAST YEAR AND RE-SET THIS YEAR WHAT KILLED OUT. FAHH-23L ERODED LAND CURTIS RILEY WILL COOPERATE OH THIS WATERSHED PROGRAM FOR TEN YEARS OR UNTIL THE WASHES ARE STOPPED AND THERE'S NO LONGER A NEED FOR IT, THIS IS TEE TYPE OF EROSION THEY ARE TRYING SUCCESSFULLY TO HEAL THROUGH THL SOIL CONSERVATK SERVICE PROGRAM. MUCH OF THE RILEY FARM PROBLEM HAS BEEN IN RECLAIMING THE LAND FROM THE CONDITIC IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT LEFT IT. LAND DETERIORATION DURING THE PERIOD OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP WAS GREAT. WHEN THE RILEYS GOT IT BACK IT HAD GROWN UP TO BUSHES AND BRIARS AND WASHED AWAY. OH, I COULD TELL SO MUCH MORE...BUT LET�S GET OH SLIDE FARM��22 GARDEN TO THE HOMEMAKING STORY. THE RILEY FAMILY HAS ; �
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A 11ALF AOHE GARDBII, MUCH OF I T YEAR-ROUND.
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FROM T132IH GARDEN AMD MEAT SUPPLY, MRS, RILE2T
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EACH SEAR FREEZES ABOUT 2 , 0 0 0 POUNDS OF FOOD BT THE FAMILY FOOD FRSESSR. OF COURSE, EIGHT NOW
S1IE 1 3 STARTING ALL OVER, SINGE ALL WAS LOST I N THE F I R E . III ADDITION TO WHAT SHE PUTS IN THE F R E E Z E R , SEE ALSO PUTS UP AiJG'PHER i|.QO QUi(RT3 OF SLLIDE FARMCALKED FOOD FOOD IN J A R S . . . . S U C H THI1K1S AS PIGKLE3, BEETS $ E L A N S , TOMATOES, JAKS AIID J E L L I E S . IN S P I T E OF
T H E I R GRI.AT LOSS THE RILEXS AR., A VERY LUCKY FAMILY. THEIR HOME BURHKD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
IIIGHT AMD THE FAMILY BARELY ESCAPED WITH THEIR LIVES, OILY IN MARCH BEFORE I T EURNBD tM AUGUST TODAY'S H0H1
THEY HAD FINISHED REMODELING I T .
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I S A BEAUTY..,WITH TABLETOP STOVE AND WALL OVEN, C U R T I S DID ALL THE WORK HIMSELF, WORKS FIVE DAYiJ 1ACH mm MRS. RILEY
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FACTORY I H WINOMA TO SUPPL1M2NT FAMILY INCOME AH3 1 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER LINDA DOES MOST OF THE HOUSi KEEPIJRJ. WE'LL MEET HER I H A MINUTE, WHEN I
V I S I T E D THE FARM THE OTHER DAY SHE WAS ON A MUCH DESERVED VACATION IN ARKANSAS. IN SPITE OF HER
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WOEK I N WINONA MRS. RILEY FINDS TIME TO SEW FOR HERSELF AND HER DAUGHTERS.*.INCLUDING TWO MARRIEI DAUGHTERS, MRS, JOE EARNETT AND MRS. B I L L
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MACHINE AND SHE SAYS IT SILL DO EVERYTHING YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT IT, HERE IS A SAMPLE OP SOME OP THE STITCHING SHE HAS DONE WITH IT, MRS. RILSY ALSO MAKES HER OWN DRAPERIES AND OUHTAINS AND IS WORKING ON A LANDSCAPE PLAN FOR HER IBRD, SLIDE FARM-27 I SAID IN THE 3EGINNIHB MISSISSIPPI HAD ALREADY MUCH ABOUT E.G. RILEY AND WOULD HEAR MUCH MOKE, LET ME BRIEFLY TELL YOU OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE IS AN OUTSTANDING 4-fi CLUB AND FFA,MEMBER. A FEW WEEKS AGO AT STATE FFA CONVENTION HE WAS AWARDED TEE STAR FARMER AWARD. HE HOLD THE
STATS FARMER DEGREE, HE IS REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE WEST CENTRAL DISTRICT OP PPA, LAST YEAR HE WAS AMEMBER OF THE STATE CHAMPION PPA DAIRY PRODUCTS JUDGING TEAM AND THIS YEAR OF THE STATE CHAMPION PPA DAIRY JUDGING AND PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE TEAMS. HE HAS BEEN A DISTRICT WINNER IN THE 4-H CLUB PASTURE PROJECT, AND THAT'S JUST BARELY TOUCHING THE MOST OUTSTANDING AWARDS. THAT PLAQUE OH THE WALL IS A DAIRY EFFICIENCY PRODUCTION AWARD. THE CURTIS CAMERA ON FAMILY RILEY FAMILY BELONGS TO THE DUCK HILL BAPTIST OHURCH WHERE CURTIS IS A DEACON, PRESIDENT OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CLASS...MRS. RILEY HAS HANDLED
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THE NURSERY FOR EIGHT YEARS AND H.C. IS A GRQU? GAPTAIH IN THE fRAINING UNION. MRS, RILEY BELQM TO THE DUCK HILL YOUNG WOMEN'S CLUB* CURTIS IS
A LION, MASON, FARM BUREAU MEMBER, PRESIDENT OF BIMPORD HICfH SCHOOL BOARD, MEMBER OP THE COMMUIIITy COUNCIL...COUNTY DIRECTOR OP THE L LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION. ..SERVES ON THE EXTENSION SERVICE COUNTY COTTON ADVISORY COMMITTEE AHD SO FORTH?,#,.AND FOLKS I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED...BUT IP YOU* RE GGIBQ TO MEM' THIS FAMILY AT ALL IT HAD BETTER BE NOW, SO HERE THEY ARE. *
