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I WANT TO SAI IK THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAI AGEHT, JOHN KILLSBREW, FOB HIS VERY WONDERFUL HELP IH SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR ARRANGING MY VISIT TO THIS FARM. THIS STORY TODAY IS A TREMENDOUS STORY, I GOULD EASILY SPEND ALL MY TIME OH ANY HUSSBER OF SEGMBH1 OP THE OVERALL STORY* BUT I AM GOING TO ENDEAVOR TO HIT THE HIGH SPOTS OF THb WHOLE PROGRAM TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT ALL. THIS IS
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STORY OF KR, AMD MRS. O.W, SCOTT OF BUCK HILL, MISSISSIPPI. THIS SIGH OH HIGHWAY �1, SOUTH OF DUCK HILL TELLS US BMSDIATKLY THAT I f . SCOTT fi IS A BREEDER OF SANTA GERTRTJDIS CATTLE AND VERY PROUD OF THAT FACT. BUT THAT*3 OHLY OSE PART OF THE STORY, LET ME FIRST GO BACK AND TELL YOU A !
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LITTLE ABOUT THIS PIKE MOHTGOMERY COUNTY FARMER, MR. O.W. SCOTT WAS BORH AMD RAISED AT HAfCHITOCHI LOUISIAHA, WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HE FIHISHED COLLEGE THERE IH 1912. FOR FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT HE TAUGHT SCHOOL IH LOUISIAMA AND WEHT FROM THAT INTO THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY AT THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR ONE IH 191?. HE WENT INTO SERVICE \ PRIVATE AND CAME OUT IH 1919 AS A CAPTAIN, SHORTLY AFTER COMING OUT OF SERVICE H c MET A MR. f L.LOYD BENFORD IN ATLANTA AND MR. BBNFGRD 11ALKED
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O.W, SGOTT INTO CQMXHG TO DUCK HILL, MISSISSIPPI, TO GOX INTO A DAIRYING AID FARMING OPERATION WITB HIM. IT WAS WHEN HE CAME TO DUCK HILL THAT HE
MET HIS CHARMING WIPE, WHO WAS AT THE TIMS, TEACHING SCHOOL, THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1920 AMD MR. SCOTT HAS BEEN AT DUCK HILL KVER SINCE. MR. AND MRS, SCOTT HAVE TWO CHILDREN, A SON AND A DAUGHTER, SHOWN IN THIS PIGTUR1 WITH MH, SCOTT ABE HIS SON, O.W*, JR. AND GRANDSON, BAltRY. MRS. SCOTT WAS BORN AHD RAISED IN THE HOME WHi&E fi?HBY LIVE TODAY, IN 1923 O.W. SCOTT STARTED TRAVELING FOR THE RICE-STIX DRY GOODS COMPANY AND DID SO FOR 33 YBAHS. HE SAYS HE WAS A PARffiR OH WEEK ENDS. WHEN HIS SOM WAS OLD ENOUGH AND WANTED TO GO INTO THE BUSINESS MR, SCOTT 1URNED IT OVER
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TO HIM AND TURNED HIS FULL ATTENTION TO HIS FARM PROGRAM, AND TO THE WELFARE OF HIS COMMUNITY AND STATE, HE STARTED PULL TIME FARMING IN 1950, THOUGH FOE MANY YliARS BEFORE THAT HE HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH AND RELIED ON THE ADVICE OF THESE MONTGOMERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS, LEFT TO RIGHT THEY ARE MR, TRUIT LAND, COUNTY A.S.G. OFFICE MANAGER, COUNTY AGENT JOHN KILLEMEW AND 30IL CONSERVATION WORK UNIT CONSERVATIONIST, L. i, FLURRY, EVERYONE OF THESE MEN HAS BEEN IMPORTANT TO THE SUCCESS OF MR. O.W, SCOTT,
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PERSONALLY OLAD THEY COULD BE ON HAND WHEN WE VISITED ME. SCOTT�S FARM BECAUSE THEY ADDED VERY MUCH TO THE INFORMATION NEEDED IN PUTTING* THE STORY TGGETHKRS O.W. SCOTT OWHS 2,200 ACRES
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OF HIS 0W1 LAI� AM) LEASES SOME HOME BESIDES. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING HIS PSOOa^M H^S BSSK OHE OP COfTOS, LIVESfOGK, GBAIK AHD TIMBSR, WIfH THE EMPHASIS QfiADOALLi: SHIFTIMG MORE TO LIVESTOOJ Wm THE IMPORTAKT T H U S IS HOT H WHAT HE H&S,
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BUT IN HOW HE HAS DEVELOPED HIS FARM RESOURCES. WHAT HE HAS DOSE AHD THE WAY HI HAS ACCOMPLISHED IT IS BASES OH THIS SOIL MAP AJHD PLAH OP HIS LAHD. HIS SOIL PLAH DATES BACK TO 19^0 WHEN MR. FLURRY HELPED HIM DEVELOPS IT, THE TUX HAS BSE! CARRIED OUT AID REVISED A HUMBER OP TIMES IK THE YEARS SIHOE. I DOH*T KHOW WHAT YOU WOULD SAY ABE MR, SCOTT'S TWO 81EAT1ST LOVES, OTHER THAI HIS LOVELY WIFE AHD CHILDREN AND aRAUDOHILDREN, OF COURSE, BUT CERTAINLY SOIL AMD WATER C0NSERVATI01
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AND SAHTA OBRTRUDIS CATTLE RATE VERY HISH. UP UNTIL FOUR YEARS AGO HE HAD WHITE FACE CATTLE, BUT HE SAYS AT THAT fBffi HE SAW A BETTER FUTURE IN SANTA QSRTRUDIS CATTLE AND MADE THE CHANGE. WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY A BETTER FUTURE?...HE WILL TELL YOU THEY ARE FASTSR GROWING, BIGGER COWS
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THAT CALVE MORE EASILY TEAS ANYTHING ELSE HE KNQV. O F . , , T H A T THEY WILL PRODUCE PASTER GROWIIG CALVKI THEY ARE GOOD RUSTLERS AND WILL MAKE MEAT OF GRASS THAT OTHER CATTLE LEAVE.. �THAT THEY SLIDE FARM CATTLE ARE MORE DISEASE RESISTANT THAU OTHER B R E E D S , , . . THAT THEY PRODUCE MORE RED SEAT WHICH THE HOUSE W I F E WANTS AND HAVE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF DRESS OUT. WHAT MORE DOES ANYONE WANT FROM A HERD OF POUR YEARS AGO �,W. SCOTT STARTED WITH
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1 0 5 HEAD OF SANTA GSRTRUDXS CATTLE,..TODAY HE HAS 1 ? 5 BROOD COWS...A TOTAL HERD OF 3�O HEAD. HK
G E T S A 9 0 TO 9 5 ^ OALF CROP AHD HAS A COMPLETELY C E R T I F I E D HERD. EVERY AEBf&L I S VISUALLY
I B S P E C T E D BEFORE CERTIFICATION AHD ONLY THE TOP QUALITY ANIMALS GAI BE SO CERTIFIED, SLIDE PARM-8 BULL MOST OF H I S CATTLE AS BREEDERS, GO TO MARKBT. HE SELLS
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HE CULLS CLOSE AND ANY COW THAT HE DOESN*T STEER
D O E S N ' T DROP A CALF HAS TO GO.
AHY BULLS EEFORE THEY ARE A YEAR OLD AHD THEY THEN GO TO MARKET AT 2 0 MOUTHS, MR. SCOTT SAYS
YOU GAH�T TELL I F AN ANIH4L XS GOIHG TO BE A GOOE BULL UHTIL HE I S A YEAR OLD, THIS HERD BULL LED
ALL OTHER BREEDS IK PERFORMANCE TESTING AT STATE LAST YEAR AHD HE HAS THREE BULLS UP THERE ON TEST RIGHT NOW, AND HE SAYS THEY ARE LEADING T H I S YEAR. H I S AIM I S TO SELL A BULL
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EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AND HI SAYS THERE �S A GOOD DEMAND FOR THEM, MB, SCOTT DOES SOME
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FEEDING AND USES SELF FEEDERS ON EVERYTHING HE
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THEY ARE WEANED AT 8 TO 10 MONTHS OF AGE, HE PLANS TO ADD ABOUT %$ MORE BROOD COWS TO HIS HSRI TO BRING IT TO A MAXIMUM OF 200 HEAD OF BROOD COWS. HS DOESN'T SBIL ANYBODY ANYTHING THAT
W0ULDN*T BE GOOD ENOUGH TO SXAY RIGHT IN HIS HERD, THESE FOUR HEXPSB&, BY THE WAY* ARE \
CONSIGNED TO THE SANTA GKRTRUDIS SALE AT BATON SLIDE PASTURE PERMANENT PASTURE. HE PLANS HIS GRAZING FOR TWO IT CONSISTS OF TO TWO AMD A HALF A0RES PBS COW. ROUGE NEXT MONTH. MR. SCOTT HAS 700 ACRES OF
DALLIS GRASS, BERMUDA AID COASTAL BERMUDA GRASS, WHITE DUTCH AMD CRIMSON CLOVER,AND FESCUE, HS
TESTS ALL HIS SOIL BOTH FOR ROW CROPS AND PASTURI [LIZES ACCORDING TO NEEDS. HE HAS 30
PASTURES AHD LIMES THEM AND ROTATES THI GRAZING. WINTER GRAZING CONSISTS OF OATS AND
RYE GRASS OF ABOUT 100 ACRES AND ANOTHER 75 AOREI SOD SEEDED. TEMPORARY SUM^R GRAZING IS 35 TO HE PUTS OUT
ACRES OF MILLET AND SUDAN GRASS, SLIDE GRAIH BINS
75 ACRES OF MILO MAIZE FOR GRAIN AND 2$ ACRES OF CORN. HE FEEDS W& MILO AND CORN TO THE
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BROOD 00W3 AHD SALVES DURBTG THE WIHTER MOUTHS, IK THE SUMMER HE EBEPS SALT AHD MEAL IB PROIT OF THEM ALL THE TIME. HIS GRAIN BBTS ARE SO ARRANGED THAT GRAIH PROH THE BBTS FEEDS DOWS IIJTC THIS OHAIH DRIVES CARRIER WHERE IT IS FED DIRECTLY IHTO THE GHBTDEH, THEN ELEVATED TO t�B
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PUTS OUT k$ ACRES OF TRACY AHD ATLAS SORGHUM FOR SILAGE, HE HAS TWO TRENCH SILOS.#.OHE HOLDS 700 TOHS AHB THE OTHER 1*00, HE SELDOM FILLS THEM BOTH. HE PUT UP ?00 TOHS LAST YEAR, DURIHC THR WHITER MOHTHS EVERYTHING GKTS SILAGE WITH A POUHD OR TWO OF MEAL TO MAIHTAIH THEIR COHDITIOM.
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W� SCOTT ALSO PUTS UP ABOUT llt000 BALES OF HAY EACH YEAR. HE PUTS UP PASTURE CLIIPIHGS FOR HAY AND FEEDS IT FREE CHOICE IN THE WliTBR. HE ALSO RAISES G0TT01.. �HAS A 12% ACRE ALLOTMENT AND THIS YEAR PLAHTED IT ALL BUT 30 ACRES WHICH WEHT IHTO THE SOIL 8AKK, HE RAISES COTTON MQSTLJ TO PROVIDE LABOR FOR HIS SIX TEWHANT FAMILIES. HE HAS MORE LABOR THAI HE HEKDS BUT BEFORE COTTOl
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ALLOTMENTS CAME IN HE HAD 18 FAMILIES, HIS G0TTQN PRODUCTION AVERAGES ABOUT A BALE AND A QUARTER TO THE ACRE, AM) HE FOLLOWS A COMPLETE COTTON INSECT CONTROL PROGRAM, THIS PAST YEAR \ HELPED THE DELTA BRAHCH EXPERIMENT STATION CONDUCT SOME OP THEIR ENTOMOLOGY DEMONSTRATION WORK OH HIS LAND* HE HAS AMPLE MACHINERY TO
PROPERLY CARRY OH THIS CROP AND LIVESTOCK SLIDE PASM-3 PAST1 PROGRAM. THERE'S ANOTHER COMPLETE STORY OH THE DIfQH O.W# SCOTT LAUD, IT�S A STORY OP A MAN AND HIS BELIEF IN THE VALtTE AHD IS FACT NECESSITY FOR SOIL AHD WATER COHSERVATIOM. SCOTT BELIEVES d IH PACT, O.W,
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CARRIES OUT COMPLETE PRACTICES OH HIS OWH LAUD HAS WORKED OTTIRIIGLY TO HELP MAKE EVERYONE jGONSBRVATIOI MB1DED, HE DID HIS FIRST SOIL AHD
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ALL HIS LAND INTO THAT FOR WHICH IT IS BKST SUITED. Hi USED TO HAVE A BIG DRAINAGE PROBL�5� 3VERYTIME HE WOULD HAVE A BIO RAIN IN THIS BOTTOM HE WOULD LOSE ALL HIS BRIDGES, HE HAD TO TAKE IT OUT OS ROW CROP AW P l IT TO GRASS TO tT
i S IT. THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS BUILD A POHD TE IN THIS WATERSHED IN 19^6...HE THEN LATER BUILT A 20 ACRE IRRIGATION POND IN THE SAME WATERSHED
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TO HELP HOLD THE WATER WHERE IT FALLS* ALSO
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OF THE FIELD INTO THE MAIN CHANNEL TO PREVENT HEAD EROSION. AS HE WAS DOUG THESE THINGS-.-MR,
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SCOTT SHOWED THE ENGISEI2IS THE SEED FOR A COMPLEX WATERSHED FLOOD CONTROL JROGRAM AND THEY WENT TO WORK AND GOHSTRUGTKD A SEVEN ACRE POHD AT TEE HEAD OF THE WATERSHED, IT TAKES WATER OFF OF
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i . 0 A0RES, HiLDINQ IT WHERE IT FALLS. OVER QSE j0 THIRD OF THE 1600 ACHE WATERSHED IS BEHIND THESE DAMS I HAVE MEHTIOHED, THE COHSTRUOTIOH |0F THE SEVEN �GRE POHD DID FIVE MAJOR THHH!S� AS YOU CAN SEE IN THi, DISTANCE, IT HAS HELPED THi GROWTH OF TIMBER ABOVE THI POSD TO HOLD BACK IT HAS PREVEHr�BD FLOODING, THAT BOTTOM WE
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AT A MOMENT AGO HAS NOT HAD WATER OUTSIDE ITS BANKS SINGE THE COMPLETION OF THIS DAM IT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT CRITICAL AREA TREATMENT kS WE SEE HERE, BY THE PLANTING OF YOUNG P B E , . HAS BEEN AN EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PREVENTING *LA5H FLOODS. IT HAS PROVIDED RECREATION AND \ SOURCE FOR IRRIGATION, O.W, SCOTT HAS ALSO
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CONSTRUCTED FIVE GULLY PLUGS. THEY ARE USED TO TOLD BACK SAND AND SILT ON INDIVIDUAL GULL2BS JNTIL VEGETATION C f BE ESTABLISHED TO HOLD fHE if
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SOIL. THIS VEGETATION IS ESTABLISHED BY PLANTING �REES AW GRASSES* AS I SAIB, Q,W* SCOTT'S
INTEH8B INTEREST IN SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DOES NOT STOP AT SEE BOUNDARIES OF HIS FARM,
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IN COOPERATION WITH THE SOIL CONSERVATION SIBVIC1 HE AND THE OTHER SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS OP MONTGOMERY COUNTY, WITH THE HELI OP FARMERS COOPERATING, HAVE COMPLETED SUCH COMMUNITY PROJECTS AS THIS SHEET PILING GVLRFALL TO CONTROL HEAD EROSION IN LARGER DITCHES. A TYPICAL LOCATION FOR THESE IS IN DEEP DITCHES ALONG THE ROAD ADJOINING FARM PROPERTY, BY CONTROLLING EROSION IN THIS WAY AT THIS POINT THEY ARE PREVENTING COSTLY GULLXING IN THEIR
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ADJO33IING FARM LAND. THKY HAVE ALSO CARRIED OUT A COMMUNITY ROAD BANK EROSION CONTROL PROGRAJ BY PLANTING LOVE GRASS ON THE BANKS TO KEEP SILT OUT OP THE NORMAL DRAINAGE CHANNELS, ON HIS OWN
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LAND MR. SCOTT ALSO PRACTICES STRIP CROPPING AND CONTOUR FARMING. THIS MAKES POSSIBLE CONTOUR
TILLAGE ELIMINATING THE SHORT ROWS AND GIVES A BASE GRASS HSOZEE ROTATION* HE HAS 60 ACRES STRIPPED IS ROW CROPS AND FESGTJE AND WHITE DUTCH CLOVER. SLIDE FARM-gfr. TREE SIGH 0,W. SCOTT IS ALSO A CERTIFIED TREK FARMER. HIS FIRST TREE PLANTING WAS IN 19kl WH*N HE PUT OUT 3,000 PINK SEEDLINGS, SINGE THAI TIME HE HAJ
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300,000. HE USES THEM TO RESTOCK OLD
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LENGTH, I'VE ONLY TOUCHED THE HIGHSPOTS OF THE SLIDE FARM�.26 O.W, SCOTT PARK PROGRAM, BUT I MUST LEAVE IT
BECAUSE I WANT TO MENTION TEE HOHEMAKIM PROGRAM OF MRS, SCOTT, MR* AND MRS, 0,W* SCOTT LIVE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL HOMb IN DUCK HILL, AS I SAID IT IS THE HOME IN WHICH MRS. SCOTT WAS BORN AND RAIS THOUGH OVER THE YEARS THEY HAVE PRACTICALLY FAMILY RE-BUILT IT INSIDE*, THE SCOTT'S HAVE A SHE GARDEN AND A ONE ACRE PEACH, APPLE, PEAR ANE PLUM ORCHARD. FROM THESE AND THEIR MEAT SUPPLY i SCOTT FREEZES ABOUT 2,500 POUNDS OP POOD EACH YEAR AND PUTS ANOTHER 12$ QUARTS IN JARS, SLIDE FAHM-28
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THIS IS A WONDERFUL COUPLE THAT HAS MEANT MUCH TO THIS STATE IK SHE YBARS PAST AND WILL MEAN EVEN MORE IN THE YEARS THAT LIE AHEAD* THEY
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BELONG TO THE DUCK HILL BAPTIST CHURCH WHiflK MB, SCOTT IS CHAIRMAN QP THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND H3 SON SAYS, CHAIRMAN OP HOST FUND RAISING DRIVES, MRS, SCOTT IS ACTIVE W THE WOMEN'S WORK OP HER
CHURCH AND IS PAST PRESIDENT OP THE W,M�U� SHE IS A MEMBER OP THE COW BELLES, THE LADIES AUXILL3 RY OP THE MISSISSIPPI GATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION AND A MEM8EK OP I S DUCK HILL CULTURE CLUB*
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O#W. SCOTT WAS RECENTLY ELI5VATED TO Tffi FRE8ZDBSC OF THE. MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION OP SOIL OONSSRWaj DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS AND IS PRESIDENT OP THE j DELTA SANTA GERTRUDIS ASSOCIATION* HE IS ALSO
SECRSTARY-TREASTJRER OP THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS* HE
IS A MEMBER OP THE COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE BEEF AND PASTURE ADVISORY GQMMITTEB, IS A PAST PRESIDBFT AND PRESENT DIRECTOR OP THE COUNTY FARM BUREAU, A DIRECTOR OP THE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION, MEMBKR OF THE LIONS CLUB, MASON AND SHRIHIfiR. HE HAS SERVED AS AN ALDERMAN OP DUCK H3 HILL AND HAS SERVED ON THE COLONEL'S STAFF OF THREE GOVI3RNORS. AND ON AMD ON I GOULD GO, BUT NOW I WAHT YOU TO MEET THEM IN PERSON,
