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I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT IAAM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO LIHGOLN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT, TRAVIS TADLOGE AND HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT � MISS SARAH JAMS 0RAIG, FOR THEIR VERY WOKDERFUL HELP IH SEL^eTIIG THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AS8J FOR GOIMO WITH ME TO THEIR FARM TO TELL. THIS IS THE BTmt OF MR. AND MRS,
TO HELP HE 0BTAI1T THE STORY WHICH I AM HOW QQXffl SLIDE FARM*.! MAILBOX HARVJB SISCO AHD THEIR TWO OHILDREH, SEVEN YEAR OLD SYLVIA AND FIVE YEAR OLD JERRY, WHO LIVE 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKHAVEH,,, JUST FOUR MIL] SOUTH OF THE WEST LIBCOUf SCHOOL. MARVIE SJSG0 WAS BORH ABOUT PIFTEEI MILES AWAY IN FRAMELIH GOUSTS AS� MOVED TO A FARM ADJOIHIM THE OM ME HOW OWNS WHEN HE HAS 12 YEARS OLD* MRS. SISCO GREW UP OH A FARM ABOUT A HALF MILE FROM WEST LIHCOLH SCHOOL, THSY MST AT VARIOUS AFFAIRS IH THE COMMUNITY AHD WERE MARRIED IN SEPTEMBER OF 191&* THEY PURCHASED 00 ACRES OF THEIR PRESEKf 150 ACBE FARM ABOUT A M0HTH AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED. IN 19I& AFT1R THREE YSABS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUHTRY MARVIE BEGAN FARMING FOE HIMSELF ON 2$ ACRES OF RENTED ROW CHOP LAND, BE WAS BENTSiG LAND WHEN THEY MARRIED IN 19lf9, Af THAT TIMS HE WAS RAJSIMCI GOfTON, CORN AND BIEF
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CATTLE AHD WAS FAHMIHG WITH A MULE. HE HAD OKB SLIDE. MULE# TEN HEAD OF CATTLE, Til AGHES OP COTTOH A M ) THr, REST IN G0!H# GOTTGH, GORI AND BEEF WERE ESSENTIALLY HIS PROGRAM UNTIL SIX YEARS AM WHEN HE CHANGED OVER TO DAIRYING. WHEN THEY MOVE TO THIS LAMD THIS HOUSE, OR, I S m S S I SHOtUJ) Bk PAST OP IT, WAS THE OH�y BHIM>im ON THE LAND. SLIDE FARM-3 THE LAID HE HAD BOUGHT MAS WORN OUT, ERODED, THHOWH OUT LAUD THAT HAD BEES PATCH FARMED TO DEATH AND THERE WAS HARDLY A PENCE OK THE PLAGE. THE FIRST THIS3 THSY DID WAS BUILD OH TO THB HOUSE, THEM LAST SUMMER THEY PUT OH THIS FSOKT POHGH AMD THE SXTEHSIOH YOU SHE OH THE BACK OF THE HOUSE AUD A HEW ROOF. TH1Y ARE PRESENTLY IH THE PR0GE3S OF CONVERTING WHAT WAS ONCE AH OLD PORCH U T O A LIVIHS ROOK, DIBXm ROOM COHBIHATI� li A S I SAID, SIX YEARS AGO THEY OUAHGED OVER TO A DAIRY PROGRAM, THEY GAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY NEEDED MORE GASH THAN THEIR FARM OPERATION WAS BRIHGIMG IN AT THAT TIMS ASD AFTER QBmXXm ISTG THE POSSIBHiITBS OF BAIHYIMJ IH TSBIR FARM OPERATIOM THSY MADE THfi SWITCH. THEY KEPT WHAT BEEF CATTLE WERE GOOD MILK PRODUCERS AHD TRADED THB R1ST FOR DAIRY ANIMALS AHD STARTED 05! PR0DU0I8G MAHUFAGTURING MILE, WHEH THEY STA&TBD SLIDE THEY HAD T1H HEAD* TODAY THEY HAVE
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60 HEAD OF GATTLB�..#39 OP THEM MILK C0WS..#AHD ARE PRESENTLY MILKING Z$ HEAD, THEY ARE SHADE OTSEY AHD HGLSTEIH QATTLE AHD PRIMARILY MABVXB SISGO USES ARTIFICIAL 88KS0IHG IH HIS PROGRAM. FOB THREE YEARS OF THEIR M I R Y EXPERIESCE THEY SOLD HAHtJPACfORIMJ M�*.�35 XH 1956 THSY PAGED THE LOSS OF THEIR M&HUFACJTURIHG MILK KA1KST AHD HAD TO DECIDE WHETHER TG.QJJIT M
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COWS OR GO I�TO A ^RADE "A" PROGRAM. AFTER MUSH TH0TRJET TlffiY DECIDED THAT THEIR FWXmB STILL LAY WITH A GOOD DAIRY PROGRAM SO THEY WEST TO WORK AHD BOTLT THIS GRADE W A W DAIRY BARS AJSD CMJHSED THEIR OPERATIOH TO A SHADE nA* DAIRY PROGRAM. THE WHOLE SISC� FAMILY WORKS tS THIS DAIRY PROGRAM, IHOLUDIHG SE�BH YEAR OLD SYLVIA A M ) FIVE YEAH OLD JEBRY, THOTOH WE SIS00fg HAVE A GRADE mm THEY GBLL IT CLOSE AHD SAVE THEIR BEST BEIF1RS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT* THEY CALFHOOD VAOGIHATE AHD THEIR HERD IS TB AHD BAUGi TESTED, THEIR HERD AVERAGE IS ABOUT 6�000 POUSDJ OF HILK PER GOW PER YEAR AW THEY HAVE BEEM ABLE TO IKCREASE IT BY 20^ IS THE PAST THREE YEARS THROUGH IMPROVED BREEDING | FEEDING AKD MAHAGEMSS11 MILKING IS DOHE WITH TWO PORTABLE MILKERS AHD THE FLAMKS AID UDDERS OF 1ACS COW AEE THOROUGHLY! WASHED AND DISIHFEOTED BEFOHB MILKISG TO ASSOSE
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TO? QUALITY MILK WITH A LOW BACTERIA QQVWSXi COOLER AFTER BACH MILKHTG THE MILK IS PUT IN TEH GALLOH CANS A8D HELD IH THIS MODERN ELECTRIC COOLER UKTIL IT IS PICKED UP, THEY GET A 95$ 0ALF AW ALL HOH PRODUCERS OS LOW PRODUCERS ARE OUT SO THEIR EFFORTS ARE COH0EWRATED OILY OH SLIDE FARM'* THEIR BEST PRODUCERS, THE MILK FROM EACH COW IS WEIGHED AFTER EACH MILKING AID AS M&RVIE BXfXAUtt HERE TO COUNTY AGEST TRAVIS TADLOCKj IN THIS WAX HE XUGWS WHAT COWS ARE PRODUCING AKB WHICH ARE HOT AMD CAN EASILY CHICK TO FIHD OUT WHY A COW HAS DROPPED OFF IH MILE PRODUCTION. THIS ALSO ESABLES HIM TO FEED HIS COWS ACCORDBKJ TO THEIR PRODUCTION. THE HIGH PRODUCERS GET ALL THEY WAUT AID THE OTHERS GIT WHAT HE WANTS THEM TO SLIDE HAVE* HE FISDS THE COWS IH THE BARN HOME GROWH GRAIM AHD A SUPPLEHiST WHICH HE HAKES UP INTO A X ^ DAIRY RATION MARVH PLAIf S 1? ACRES IH 0088* HE PLAHTS A HYBRID AW IT YIELDS AN-AVERAGE OF 80 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. HE FEEDS IT ALL OH THE FARM. IH THE PAST MARVIE HAS BEEN BALING SOME SOYBEAN HAY, HE THISSS THIS YEAR DUE TO THE SCARCITY OF PROTEIN HE HAY PLAHT ? ACRES TO GOMBIHE TO GET THE PROTEIH FOR HIS D A H Y RATION SLIDE PERMASEHT PASTURE GOHSISTS OF 3J.0 ACRES IH DALLIi GRASS. BAHAXA GRASS GRIMSOH
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CLOVER* 65 ACRES OP IT IS IMPROVED PASTURE AHD THE BEST NATIVE GRASSES. THE FIRST THI3G MARVH SISCO HAD TO DO WHEH HE BOUGHT THIS LAID WAS BUILD THE FERTILITY, HE BROKE IT UP FOR CULTIVA1
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TIOH FIRST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE COTJLD GET THE FERTILISER TO IT FASTER !EHAT WAY. TBBI HI VQV mSO GOOD PASTURE. HE FERTILIZES HEAVY AHD HIS PASTURES FOB W E D COHTRO&, I DON'T K80W HOW WELL THIS PICTURE OF HIS OATS AMDfflJEGRASS VWU SHOW IT BUT RIGHT B^WSEH MARVIE AM3 MR, TADLOGE WHERE TI5AVIS IS POIHTim, IS THE POINT WHERE MARVIE RAN OUT OP LIME, I KNOW TO STAND II THIS FIELD YOU CAN SURE SEE THE DIFFEREHCE IN COLOR AHD GROWTH, TEMPORARY &RA2ISG CONSISTS OP M> ACRES III OATS, RICE GRASS AHD CRIHSOH CLOVER. 01 THE FIRST OF MARCH HE TAKES THE CATTLE OFF OP HALF THE OATS WHICH HE SITUATES AID LATER CUTS FOR HAY AND COMBINES FOR HIS SEED, THE REST ARE GRAZED COMPLTELY DOWH. EACH YEAR MARVIE PUTS UP ABOUT A THOUSAND BALES OF HAY, IHCLUDIHG CLOVER, SORGHUM AHD SOYBEAf? HAY, BY THE WAY, THOSE OATS WE WERE JUSJ LOOKING AT HAD BEEH GRAZED SIHCE SEPTEMBER 2?TH* KABVIE BUILT THIS HAY BARM IS 1952. AMD LAST FALL HE FENCED IN ALL THE LOTS AROUHD THE BUILDXHGS AS YOU SEE HERS,
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TODAY ALL OF HIS LAND IS FENCED AID CROSS F11NCH SLIDE F. HE HAS 13 PASTURE AREAS 80 HB OAH PROPERLY R O M E HIS GRAZING TO PREVENT OVERGRAZING, HE I HAS THREE STOCK PONDS SIMILAR TO THIS ONE. TBE3 ARE 80 CONSTRUCTED THAT THE THREE WILL SERVE SIX DIFFERENT PASTURES AREAS WITH FENCING THE MIDDLE OP THE POS�, A3 HARVIE HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE MECHANIZED HE HAS REALIZED !I!HB IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING HIS VALUABLE I W E S T M B N T SO HE BUILT THIS MACHIHB SHED HE GOULD KEEP IT UIDER SHELTER WHEN HOT IN USE*
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MABVIE HAS TRIED TO GET ALL HIS LA�D IHTO T ^ CROP FOR WHICH IT IS BEST SUITED, HB HAS 30 ACRES BEST SUITED TO TBiBER AITO IT�S IN TIMBER* BE HAS ALSO PLANTED SOME TBffiER WIHDBRLAKS FOR HIS CATTLE. HE THINS AHD WEEDS HIS TIMBER, CUTTING OUT AMD POISQNIHG THE UNDESIRABLE HABD WOODS THAT RESTRICT THE GROWTH OF HIS FAST HROWIHG PIHE TIKBER* II THE FCREGROUM) OF THIS PICTURE YOU CAH SEE THE RESULTS OF SOME OF THAT WORK, THOUGH MRS* SISCO WORKS OUTSIDE RIGHT ALONGSIDE HER HUSBAUD, SHE ALSO CARRIES OUT AI EXCELLENT HQMEMAKING PROGRAM. FROM THEIR A0RB OF SEAR ROUND GARDEN SHE CANS �00 JARS OF FOOD EACH XEAR AND SHE�S TEACHING DAUGHTER
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THE ABT OP POOD PSE3EBVAT IOK* THE SISGO FAMILY DOESN�T ADD ANYTHING U B T O THEY GAH AFFORD TO PAX FOH IT AW SO THEY HAVBH<T ADJED A HOME PRBSZER YET, AND TH0TOH fl&f MAKES HER HO���SS SLIDE FARM*20
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ALSO GROUP CAPTAIN FOR HIS TRAXHIBG 1MXQM AND COOHSELOR OP THE TOOTG MEH�S BROTHERHOOD, MR. CAMERA OH FAMILY AMD M 3 � SISOO BELQlfG TO THE LIHCOLN COUNTY FARM BUREAU AND THE WEST LHC0L2J SCHOOL P,T*A# KAKVIE IS AH F.H*A� COUNTY COHHTOJEEMAH AID VIGE CHAIRMAN OP THE LINCOLU QQTffiSt DAIRY DAY 20SEXBX CEI�EBRATION. AS TRAVIS TADLOCK P0I1TED OUT TO mw IT�S JUST HAHD TO REALIZE THE TREMKMDOtJa ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THUS Y O U M PA11ILZ AID THEY HAVE BEEU A REAL IHSPIRATIOH TO YOUMG FAHMSIS IS THEIR ABEA* I COULD TALK 01 AT CONSIDERABLE LSH5TH BUT I MAHT YOU TO MEET THEM HOW AID HEAB FROM THEM OP SOME OF TEEIR HARDSHIPS AND ACCOKPLISHMBHTS ABP HOPES FOB THE FUTURE* Xm MARVIE, WHAT HAS BEEH YOUR BIGGEST JOBf 2 , WHAT DO YOU HOPE fC DO IH THE I^DTURE WITH YOUR DAIRY PROGRAM? 3* WHAT ADVICE GOULD YOU GIVE A YOUM) DAIKXMAH TBYIHG TO GET STARTED? i}.# MRS SISCO, WHAT HAS HELPED YOU HOST IN YOUH H0;MEMAKI2JG PROGRAM? $m IF YOU EM) A CHOICE WOULD YOU TRADE YOUR FARM LIFE FOR AHOTHERf 6� WOULD YOU RECOMMEHD THE OCCUPATION OF FARM WISE TO YOUH DAUGHTER?
