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I WANT TO SAY IS THE VERT BEGINNING THAT I AM SLIDE RFD TELEVISIT MAILBOX GRATEFUL TO MR. COOPER WALTON, AREA SUPERVISOR OP THE FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION AND MR. S.R. SINCLAIR, RANKIN GOUNTY H.H.A. SUPERVISOR, FOR THEIR HELP IH SELEGTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH ME TO THEIR FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO TELL. THIS IS THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS, SLIDE PARM-1 FARM-X CLYDE SHIVERS WHO LIVE ONE AND A HALF MILES EASf OF P1LAHATCHIE, MISSISSIPPI, OH HIGHWAY 80. MR. AND MRS. SHIVER HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, THREE GIRLS AND A BOY. THE ELDEST DAUGHTER IS M&RRC ED AND THE REST ARE LIVING AT HOME. MR. AND MRS. SHIVERS OWN 2�0 ACRES AND RENT ANOTHER 3$O. CLYDE SHIVERS WAS BORN FIVE MILES FROM PELAHATCH IE AND GREW UP NEAR PELAHATCHIE. AFTER HE FINISHED SCHOOL AT HOLLY BUSH HE HIRED OUT AS FARM LABOR UNTIL HE WENT TO WORK FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT IH 193^. MRS. SHIVERS GREW UP ON A FARM TWO MILES NORTH OF BRANDON. SHE AM GLY&E MET ONE DAY WHEN CLYDE PIGEED UP HER AND HER MOTHER AND HAULED THEM HOME ON HIS WAY HOME FROM WORE. HE SAYS HE ASKED HER FOR A DATE AND SHE TOLD HIM HE COULD COME BAGK THE FOLLOWJHG SUNDAY AND TAKE HER TO CHURCH. WELL, TO M A K B A
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LONG STORY SHORT, THEY WERE MARRIED 1 9 1 9 3 5 . CLYDE SAYS WHEN THEY MARRIED IN THAT DEPRESSION YEAR HE OWNED TWO COWS, A ROCKING CHAIR AND A B� BSD. AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE HE CONTINUED TO WORK
FOR THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT AND RENTED A LITTLE LAND AND RAISED BRUGK CROPS, SLIDE HOI AFTER THREE Y1ABS
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CF RESTING THEY BOUGHT THEIR PRESENT LAND. HOWEVER, THEY DIDN*T MOVE INTO THIS HOUSE YOU SEE HERB. IN FACT THEY ONLY MOVED INTO I T LAST
FALL AFTER MANY YEARS OF HARD WORK AND MUCH SLIDE FARM-J OLD HOUSE UDGERY I N BUILDING THEIR SUCCESSFUL FARM PRISE. THEY LIVED IN T H I S HOUSE FROM Vfo�
0 THE FALL OF 1 9 � 8 . CLYDE'S FIRST PURCHASE OF ND WAS 8 0 ACRES. HE REGALLS THAT I F H E ' D A
HAD TO FAX A $ 1 0 0 DOWN HE COULDN'T HAVE DONE I f . SLIDE
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H i STARTED OUT FARMING RAISING COTTON AND GOBS, SOME TRUCK CROPS AND S I X HEAD OF GRADE DAIRY SOWS. CLYDE SAYS THE FIRST YBAR OF FA1MIMG HE
>3P ALRIGHT, BUT THE SECOND YEAR HE DIDN'T MAKE � 0 0 POUNDS OF SEED COTTON ON THE WHOLE PLACE. M SAYS I T WAS THEN THAT MR. OTHO ROCHESTER OF
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AND I P HE DIDN'T DO I T THEN HE PROBABLY WOULD. GLIDE SATS AT THAT TIME HIS MET WORTH
WASN'T MORE THAU # 1 , 2 0 2 BUT HE WENT TO WORK AND USING SALVAGE MATERIAL AND HAULING GRAVEL PROM SLIDE FARM-6 P I T AMD MIXING IT T H I N . . . J U S T ENOUGH TO GST BY WITH,..HE BUILT HIS FIRST DAIRY BARN. WAS A STANCHION TYPE AND HELD POUR COWS. IT HE HAS
GROWN INTO T HE DAIRY BUSINESS BY SAVING HIS BEST HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT AND, A S CLYDE, SAYS BY BUYING AN OCCASIONAL COW AS HE COULD ON GRBDI HE SAYS HE SHIPPED HIS FIRST 2 ��� GALLONS OF MILK I N A CAN HE BORROWED TO PUT IT I N , SLIDEV FARM-f COWS ? TODAY CLYDE
SHIVERS HAS 80 HEAD OF MILK COWS.. .PRIMARILY J E R S E Y . . . . i 5 OF THEM REGISTERED. HE SAVES HIS HIS HERD
BEST HEIFERS AND CULLS THE HERD CLOSE. I S TB AND BANGS FREE.
TEN YEARS AGO HIS AVERAGE
PRODUCTION PER COB PEER YEAR WAS ABOUT 4 * 5 0 0 POUNDS. TODAY T2 I S OVER 7 , 0 0 0 . HE ATTRIBUTES
THE INCREASE TO BETTER BREEDING, GLOSER GULLING, IMPROVED PASTURES AND FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT. SLIDE FARM-8 MILKING FARLCR EIGHT YEARS AGO CLYDE SHIVERS BUILT THIS VERY MODERN THREE COW MILKING PARLOR ACCORDING TO PLANS OBTAINED FROM STATE COLLEGE. HE HAS
OPERATED A GRADE "A" DAIRY PROGRJSS SINCE THE VERY FIRST CAN OF MILK DELIVERED. MILK GOES TO MOSBY IN CANTON. TODAY HIS
HE HAS A PIPE
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LINE MILKER SETUP IN WHICH THS MILK GOES FROM THE G0W�S UDDER DIRECT TO THE HQLDIHG TAHK, WHIC IN CLYDE SHIVERS CASE IS A BULK TANK WHICH WAS INSTALLED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO, GLIDE LIKES THE BULK TAHK, HE SAYS IT REQUIRES LESS LABOR. HE GETS BITTER BUTT1BFAT, CHEAPER HAULING AND LOWBB BA0T1RIA COUST. CL1JDE HAHDLES HIS DAIRY PROGRAM C0MPLET1LT OH A GRASSLAND PROGRAM. HE DID PUT Uf SILAGE BUT QUIT IT A XEAR AGO DUE TO LACK OF LABOR TO HANDLE IT, PERHAMENT DAIRY PASTURE CONSISTS OF 150 AORBS OF BERMUDA, DALLIS M D BAHAIA GRASS, FESCUE, GOMtlOH LESPBDEZA, WHITS DUTCH AW> LADISO CLOYSR. HI LIMES HIS PASTURES, FSSTILIZiiS WITH CHICKEN DROPPIBGS AND BASIC SLAG FOR TEMPORARI GRAZING HE USES 100 ACRES OF OATS,
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FESCUE AND CLOVER. HE GRAZES THE OATS ALL THE WAY. EACH YEAR HE PUTS UP AROUND ��GQ0 BALES OF HAY FOR WINTER FEED. HE BALES SOME FOR NEIGHBOR! AND TAKES HIS PAY IN HAY. EIGHT YEARS AGO CLYDE SHIVERS STARTED A BEEF HERD. HE GRAZES HIS DAIR: AND BEEF CATTLE SEP1RATE. HE GOT INTO THE BEEF BUSINESS BECAUSE HE WANTED A WAY TO UTILIZE HIS SURPLUS DAIRY HEIF1RS. ALL OF HIS B1EF CATTLE TODAY ARE THE RESULT OF BREEDING JERSEY COWS TO HEREFORD BULLS.. ALL OF THESE JEBSBYS WSRB
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HEIFERS THAT WEREN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO SAVE FOR DAIRY REPLACEMENTS OR THAT WERE*NT NEEDED IN THE
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DAIRY PROGRAM. HIS HERD TOTALS $0 BEAD....35 OF THEM BROOD COWS. HE FOLLOWS .A COMMERCIAL COW AN CALF PROGRAM AND SELLS THE BULK OF THE CALVES MILK FAT OFF THE COW. SOMETIMES HE WILL 8EED OUT THE LATE ONES. THE BEEF HERD TOO IS TB AND BANGS FREE. CLYDE GETS A lOOJ* CALF CROP BECAUSE IF A COW DOESN*T BRING A CALF HE GITS RID OF HER PERMANENT BEEF PASTURE CONSISTS OF 100 ACRES AND HE ALSO PUTS OUT 35 ACRES OF OATS AND L1SFEDE2A. HE CALFHOOD VACCINATES EVER1THING IN BOTH THE DAIRY AND BEEF HERDS. HE SPRAYS FOR PARASITE
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SHIVERS IS A COMPLETELY MECHANIZED FARMER.
HIS FIRST TRACTOR IN l*?k$ AND NOW HAS CLOVER SEED AND 15 ACRES OP OATS FOR SEED. HE STORES HIS MACH INERY UNDER A SHED BUILT 8 YEARS SLIDE FARM-4,7 AGO FOR THIS PURPOSE. WATER FOR THE LIVESTOCK IS SUPPLIED FROM SIX STOCKPONDS SIMILAR TO THIS AND ALSO FROM SEVERAL SEASONAL SPRING BRANCHES.
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CLYDE SHIVERS ALSO HAS 1*0 ACRES IN FINE PI IB
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TIMBER, HE DOES TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT WORK i OH HIS TIMBER AND FROM IT HE HAS BUILT MANY OF THE BUILDINGS OH HIS FARMLAND. HE HAS DOSE CONSIDERABLE RELEASE WORE AND SELECTIVELY HABVEI AND PROTECTS FROM FIRE, HIS LAUD IS FENCED AS) GROSS FENCED, IN ADDITION TO HIS FARMING ILIDE FARM-3,9 HOUSES ENTERPRISE CLYDE SHIVERS LASO HAS SIX RENTAL HOUSES WHICH HE HAS BUILT OH HIS FARM LAID. HI! PROPERTY IS IDEALLY SUITED FOR SUCH AN ENTERPR} BECAUSE IT COMBS RIGHT UP TO THE CITY LIMITS OF FELAHATCHIE. THESE ARE TWO OF THE HEWER UNITS. DESIGNED THEM HIMSELF. HE ALSO HAS A STORE IN THE EDGE OH PELAHATCHIE. THIS SLIDE IN HOUSE MAN HAS A LOT OF IRONS IN THE FIRE SO TO SPEAK. THE SHIVERS FAMILY USED TO RAISE A GARDEN BUT WITH SO MANY OTHBR THINGS TO BO THEY HAVE FOUND THEY CAN BRING HOME SURPLUS FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FROM THE STORE AND FREEZE AND CAN THiM RATH1R THAN PRODUCE THEIR OWN* MRS, SHIVERS FREEZES ABOUT 800 POUNDS OF FOOD AND PUTS UP AROUND 200 SLIDE QUARTS IH JARS. SHE LIKES TO COOK AND IS A GOOD OKI. IN PACT, IH HER COMPLETELY MODERN KITCHEN COOKING IS A REAL PLEASURE. THEY HAVE A AN ALL ELECTRIC HOME. MR* AND MRS, SHIVERS FIRS! DEPENDED ON THE FARMER'S HOMS ADMINISTRATION TO
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PURCHASE THEIR U D AND THEN AFTER IT WAS ALL CLEAR OP DEBT THEY LAST YEAR OBTAINED AH F.H.A.
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FARM HOUSING LOAN TO BUILD THEIR LOVELY COUNTRY H0M1. JSRS. SHIVERS IS TEAGHIBG DAUGHTERS B&YTt WHO IS 24 AND ESSLYN WHO IS U TO COOK TOO, IS THE KITCHEN THEY HAVE A TABLETOP STOVE AND WALL OVEN AND EVERYTHING IS DESIGNED TO SAVE STEPS AMD GUT DOWN 08 HEAVY LABOR, li* YEAR OLD BETTY IS JUST STARTING TO 8BW, SHE WILL BE IH THE TENTH GRADE HEXT FALL. SHE IS A I4.-H GLUB MEMBER AND MEMBER OP THE Y-TEENS AND FUTURE HOHBMAIERS AMD ALSO LIKES TO FLAY BASKETBALL. EVELYH WILL Bl IH THE SIXTH GRADE HEXT FALL AID SIX YEAR OLD JACKIE CLYDE WILL BE IH THE SBCOMD GRADE HEXT YEAR. I�, AKD iffiS. SHIVERS HAVE QM GRASDDAUGHTSR. THE SHIVERS FAMILY BEL013GS TO TBD PELAHATCHIE BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE J�S. SHIVERS IS IGTIVE IH W0HE3f*S WORK AW HAHDLES THE HUMARY DEPARTMENT OF THE SUNDAY SGHOOL AND THE TRAUJIH& UNIOH. BETTY IS VIGB PRESIDSUT OF HBR SUifDAY SCHOOL CLASS AKD IVELYH IS SECEETARY OF HERS. MRS, SHIVERS IS OH THE FIHAHGE COMMITT^ OF THE P.T.A.. THEY BELONG TO THE FARM BUREAU AND THS MISSISSIPPI DA3BY ASSOCIATIOH. THEY ALL LIKE TO FISH BUT ESPECIALLY DO MRS, SHIVERS AND J&CSCII.
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THIS IS A PIME STORY OP A PINE FAMILY AMD I HAVE EHJOYED TELLING THEIR STORY. MOW, IN THE TIME THAT REMAINS, HERE IS FORREST TO ASK THEM A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT OTHER PARTS OF THEIR PROGRAM THAT PICTURES DOH�T TILL.
X. C L O T , WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR T HE PUTHRB?
2. WHAT KIHD OF MACHINERY DID YOU START FARMIHG WITHf 3. HOW LOSS HAS IT BEEN SIKGS YOU RAISED AMY
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k� WHAT DO YOU F M > THE COWS IN THE BARH? $. MRS. SHIVERS, TELL US ABOUT THE OLDEST DAUGHTER...WHERE IS SHE AW WHAT IS HER MARRIED NAME? 6� WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR MEW HOME? T. ASK BITTY ABOUT PLAHS AFT�� HIGH SCHOOL. 3. ASK EXELYN IF SHE HAS ANY CHORES? 9. ASK JACKIE ABOUT AHY PETS 10. ASK F.H.A. MAN TO SUMMARIZE.
