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WELL, I T ' S TIMS ONCE AGAIN FOR OUR WEEKLY SALUTE TO THE FASH FAMILY OF THE WEEK.
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TODAY'S
FAMILY WAS SELECTED WITH THE VERY CAPABLE HELP OF THE LINCOLN COUNTY AGENT'S OFFICE AND FRIENDS I N THE COMMUNITY I N WHICH THIS FAMILY RESIDES. SLIDE FARM-1 HOUSE THIS I S THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS.
R . E . SMITH AND FAMILY OF ROUTE ONE, BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI. TODAY'S BEAUTIFUL HOME OF THE
SMITH FAMILY I S A FAR CRY FROM IKE HOME WHICH THEY MOVED INTO 1 8 YEARS AGO.
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THEIR FIRST
HOME WAS A FOUR ROOM AFFAIR THAT WAS DRAGGED BY TRACTOR FR M BACK I N THE PASTURE AND PLACED ON THIS SIGHT. THROUGH THE YEARS IT HAS BEEN
REMODELED AND REBUILT INTO TODAY'S LOVELY FARM MR. AND MRS. R . E . SMITH GREW UP WITHIN EN MILES OF EACH OTHER. MR. SMITH GREW UP
S T TWO MILES FROM HIS PRESENT FARM AND MRS. WITH WAS REARED I N NEARBY LAWRENCE COUNTY. . AND MRS* SMITH CAME TO THIS FARM IfiREE YEARS FTER THEY WERE MARRIED. THEY HAD PURCHASED A
SMALL FARM AND THEN 3 3 0 0 0 ! SOLD I T ABB BOUGHT SLIDE DAIRY CATTLE 3 1 0 ACRES OF IHMR PRESENT 5 2 0 ACRE FARM. THE SMITH FAMILY HAS BEEN 1 9 THis DAIRY BUSINESS l i l N C E THE VERY BEGINNING. WHEN THEY STARTED
)UT THEIR FARM WAS MOSTLY SAGEBRUSH AN" WOULD
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HARDLY SUPPORT THE TEN COJCS THEY MILKED FOR DELIVERY AS GRADE �C" MILK, TODAY THEIR FINE
PASTURES EASILY CARRY THEIR 1 0 5 HMD HERD OF F I N S DAIRY CATTLE. IV 1 9 4 5 THEY DECIDED TO
CHANGE OVm TO OPERATING A GRADE "A" MIRY AND I T HAS MEANT SUCCESS FOR THIS FI1TE FAMILY OF HX. SLIPS COWS OF THEIR 1 0 5 HEAD ARE REGISTERED.
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GRADE "A DAIRY PROGRAM GOT UNDER
T Y �ITH 1 6 HMD OF GRADE CATTLE, TODAY MOT" A THEY HAVE
ABOUT 75 HEAD OF MILK CONS WITH 4 1 OP THEM IK PRODUCTION AT THE PRESENT TIME. ONE OF THE
BEST PARTS OF THEIR PROGRAM HAS B B H THEIR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THEIR HERD AID WLARGE I T TO I T S IRESEKT S I 2 E . THIS THEY HAVE DOSE BY
SELECTIVE BREEDING TO HIGH QUALITY SIRES AND THE ADDITION OF HIGH QUALITY, HIGH PRODUCING SLIDE FARM-/ HEIFERS REPLACEMENT. THEY FOLLOW A CLOSE CULLING RAM, ALL CALVES ARE CALFHOOD VACCINATED AND E HERD I S BANGS FREE.
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FOR
1HEIR FIRST VENTURE
INTO ADDING REGISTERED STOCK CAME AS I T DOSS SO MANY PROGRESSIVE FARMS. THE BOYS BOUGHT
REGISTERED HEIFERS FOR 4~H CLUB PROJECTS AND fflEY HAVE SERVED AS A FOUNDATION TO BUILD ON A COMPLETELY REGISTERED DAIRY HERD, WIICH
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THE SMITH'S HOPE THEY WILL ONE DAY OWN. R . E . SMI1H AW SLIDE FARM-5
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HIS BOYS HAVE POUR REGISTERED
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, ONE GUERNSEY� ONE JERSEY AID WO BOLSTBINS. THEY ARE CAREFUL IN THEJR BREEDING ffliS THEI MM
PROGRAM AND ARE CAREFUL NOT f 0 MIX MEEDS. ALSO PRACTICE SOME ARTIFICIAL SMINATION.
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COMPLETELY MODERN MILKING AND PROCESSING
BARN
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A! DAIRY PROGRAM.
THE MRS WAS BUILT BY MR.
AND MUCH OF THE TIMBER WAS CUT FROM HIS f LAND. IN FACT THE ONLY BUILDINCS ON THE
FARM H i THE TIME IT WAS PURCHASED BY THE SMITH IPAMILY MAS A PART OF THE M ESENT HOUSE AND SOME JTENNANT HOUSES SCATTERED AROUND THE FARM. THE
FROM THESE TENIANT HOUSES WERE ALSO USED I N CONSTRUCTING THS R PRESENT BUILDINGS. I N S I D E 1HE BARN, NIGHT AND MORNING, FOUR SLIDE FARMCOWS BEING MILKED
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PORTABLE a i C T R I C MILKING MACHINES ARE PUT TO DSE TO TAKE MUCH OF THE LABOR 0ST OF 1H� DIFFICl TASK OF DAIRYING. UDDERS ARE CAREFULLY CLEANED BACH COW IS CAREFULLY
AND MILKERS ATTACHED,
LOOKED OVER MIGHT ANB MORNING FCR INJURIES AND SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE. AT A TIME. THE BARN HANDLES 17 HEAD
THE MILK IS PLACED IN THIS LARGE
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ELECTRIC COOL� AND KEPT THEIR UNTIL DELIVERY. THE COOLER HANDLES 12 CANS AND DELIVERY I S MADE
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MORNING IN THIS REFRIGERATED DELIVERY
TRUCK WHICH IS OWNED BY THE SMITH FAMILY* BESIDES HAULING HIS O N MILK TO THE CREAMERY W I F BROOKHAVEN, MR. SMITH ALSO PICKS UP THE MILK FROM HIS BROTHER'S M I R Y AND FROM ANOTHER AIRY OWNED AND OEERITED BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
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PASTURE
OF COURSE AD1QUATB FEED I S IMPORTANT TO THE SUCCESSFUL OP^ATION OF A DAIRY HERD OF THIS iSIZl. MUCH OF THAT FEED COMES FROM GRAZING
;ON LUSH PASTUH SUCH AS THIS BEING INSPECTED BY TRAVIS iABLOCK, EXTENSION AGENT, AND BOB AND HAMP, THE TWO ELDEST SONS OF MR. AND |R�E# SMITH. fflEY HAVE W.S.
ACRES IN PERMANENT
IMPROVED PASTURE CONSISTING OF DALLIS GRASS, BERMUDA, FESCUE, CLOVERS AND SOM; BAHAIA, THEY
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ALSO RAISE ABOUT 200 ACRES OF OATS FOR FEED, SOME OF IT I S COMBINED FOR GRAIN TO FEED AND SOME OF' IT I S PUT BP AS HAY WITH THE GRAIN ON, THIS HAY B&RN, BUILT BY THE SMITHS IS FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH (AT HAY, LBSPEDEZA AND SOME DALLIS GRASS HAY. SR YEAR. THEY PUT UP ABOUT 3*00� BALES
ABOUT 2$ ACRES OF THE OATS WAS ALL THE OATS
UlSED ENTIRELY FOR GRAZING.
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GRAZED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ABOUT 25 ACRES. , I THE SMITH FAMILY CAME TO THIS FARM, THEY
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RAISED CORN, COTTON AND TRUCK CROPS IN ADDITION TO OPERATING THE GRADE "C" DAI1Y. SLIDE RAISE CORN FOR FEED. THEY STILL
ABOUT F I � E YEARS AGO f g t T THIS YEAR THET HAVE
STOPPED RAB ING COTTON. 3 0 ACRES I I CORN.
IT I S PULLED AND ALONG WITH
OATS AND HAY I S MIXED INTO A U% DAIRY RATION FOR THE CATTLE, AND SOlfil I S FED AS HOG FEED. SLIDE
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HOGS
JTHE SMITH FAMILY RAISES ABOUT 1 5 HEAD OF HOGS, INCLUDING ONE REGISTERED RUtQC SOW WHICH WAS
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F . F . A . PROJECT OF ONE OF THS BOYS. THEY RAII &OGS PRIMARILY FOR T1BIR O N MEAT SUPPLY, HUT W JTHEY DO SELL KfOUGK TO PAY THE EXPENSE <F PRODUCING THEIR O N MSAT SUPPLY. W SLIDE FARM-14 PLENTIFUL ON THE R . E . SMITH FARM. WATER I S FOUR LARGE
STOCK PONDS SUCH AS THIS SUPPLY ALL THAT I S NEEDED AND ALS 0 PROVIDE PLJ9TTY W FINE PISHING WHICH I S ENJOYED BY ALL THE FAMILY. SLIPS R.fi.
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SMITH AND HIS FAMILY ARE COMPLETELY MECHANIZED TO MEET ALL THEIR FARM NEEDS. 1ESIDES THESE
TWO TRACTORS THEY 0W1 A COMBINE, HAY BALER, MOWING AND RAKING EQUIPMMT AND ALL NECESSARY IMPLEMENTS. THEY CLIP THEIR PASTURES RBiUURLY
FOR WEED CONTROL AND FOLLOW THE BEST METHODS
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OF FERTILIZATION, PROPER LAUD U S E , INSECT AMD P A R A S I T E CONTROL I N A BALANCED, WELL t > I V E R S I F I E D FARM PROGRAM. KNOWING FULL W&.L
M E I N V E S T O T T IN FARM MACHINERY AM) THE COST OF REPLACEMENT, EVERY CARE I S TAKEN TO PROTECT I H E I R EQUIPMENT AND THIS LARGE MACHINERY SHEB WHICH THEY HAVE BUILT I S ONE SURE WAY OP DOING T,
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PROGRAM INCLUDES A POULTRY
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I T I S THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY OF
(DAUGHTER PATSY AID HER MOTHER TO CARB FOR TEE C H I C K E N S , DUCKS AND TURKEYS ON THE FARM,
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^ M I T H HAS ABOUT I S O LAYERS WHICH PRODUCE FOR THE FAMILY NEEDS AND FOR OCCASIONAL SALES TO SUPPLEMENT THE FAMILY INCOME. BY TIffi WAY, ONE SHE I S
OF PATSY&S FABf PETS I S THIS BANTY UM FOLDING.
THE SMITH FAMILY P1?ODUCES ALMOST BJCU OF I T COMES
ALL THE FOOD THEY CONSUH1. SLIDE
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FROM ABOUT AN ACRE OF GARDEN AND TRUCK PATCHES. B E S I D E S PRACTICALLY EVERY GARDEN VB&ETABLE YOU CAM THINK OF THEY HAVE LARGER PATCHES OF PEANUTS AND POTATOES. NOT ONLY DO THEY ENS0Y
F R E S H VEGETABLES I N SEASON, BUT PROVISION I S SLIDE FARM-18 MIDE FOR THE WINTER MONTHS ALSO. CHICKENS,
B E E F , PORK, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ARE FRESH FROZEN AND PLACED I N THE DEEP FREEZE F O 1 LATER
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THE SMITH RAMILY FREEZES ABOUT 1500
JPOUNDS OF FOOD NEARLY, FOOD PRODUCED ON THEIR OWN FARM. SLIDE FAESM9 CANNED FOOD MRS* SMITH SAYS SOME FOODS ARE LIKBE
BETTER BY THE FAMILY I F THEY ARE CANNED AND SO TTERY YEAR SHE CANS MANY JARS OF FRESH F t U I T AMD VEGETABLES FOR THE FAMILY USE. I S3COW
MANY A CITY HOUSEWIFE WOULD LOVE TO GET INTO jTHIS CUPBOARD. AHD THERE'S ANOTHER SECTION JUS
JLIKE IT WHICH WE COULDN'T GET IJSTO THE PICTURE, SLIDE I N S I D E HOUSE jlQE R , E . SMITH FAMILY REMODELED THEIR HOUSE [FOR THE LAST TIME LAST YEAR. b o D E M IN Wtmi I T I S COMPLETELY
DETAIL WITH MANY ELECTRICAL
CONVENIENCES OPERATED EFFICIENTLY WW� ELECTRIC ISUPPLIED BY THE M I S S I S S I P P I POWER I D LIGHT COMPANY HIGHLBT1. LAST YEAR THEY RECIEFID THEIK
TELEPHONE SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
OMB I S SPACIOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY PINE RKNNELLD, AND MOST OF THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE BY MR. SMITH KNOWING 1 H A I A SUCCESSFUL FARMER MIST BE A IACK OF ALL TRADES, MS. SMITH AND THE BOYS
HAVE APPLIED WELL. ffiaSELVES AND LEARNED THEIR WORK
THE TWO BOYS WERE OVERHAULING A JEEP MS. AND MRS. R . E , SMITH,
WHILE I WAS THERE.
BOB* HAMP, RUDY AND PATSY JEAN ARE MEMBERS OF AND IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE AT THE H1UCK�S
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RETREAT BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE MS, SMITH IS A
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MEMBER OF ffiB BOARD OF DEACONS AND SUPfiRINIMBE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, WBBRE MRS, SMITH TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR SEVBiAL YSAHS Am WHERE MH?
SMITH AND BOB AND HAMP SIIG I I THE CHUHCH CHOIR. BOB AND HAMP ALSO SING W THE CHURCH ARE MEMBERS OF THIS YEAR'S STATE
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CHAHPION F , F . A , QUARTET NAMED THIS SUMMER AT THE ANNUAL FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA CONVENTION CAMERA ON FAMILY
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STATE COLLHJ1.
THE SMITH
FAMILY BELOIJ& TO THE HMJCK'S RETRE4T COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB AM) MR, SMITH IS CHAIRMAN OF THE CORN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OS THE CLUB, MR
SMITH I S AISO A MSMB^ OF THE LINCOLN COUNTY FARM BUREAU, HAS SWLVED AS A COMMUNITY COMTIITTEEMAN OF THE OLD P.M.A, AIM I S GENEIALL1 ACTIVE IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE WELFARE OF HIS COJFLUNITY AND COUNTY. MRS, SMITH HAS A FULL
TIME JOB CARING FOR HER HOME AMD FAMILY AND YOU HAVE ONLY TO MBBT THE FAMILY TO KNOW THAT SHE HAS DONE BOTH JOBS WELL F#R THEY ARE A
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FAMILY THAT WORKS AND PLAYS TOGETHER AND LOYBS EVERY MINUTE OF J T , A FAMILY INSflLLED WITH IGH IDEAJS AND THE PROPER CHARACTER TO TAKE PLACE AS FIRST CLASS CtflZmS OF OUH STAfl
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SAMP WILL FINISH SCHOOL AT HEUCK'S RETREAT ^OHSOLIMTED SCHOOL THIS YEAR AND BOB IS HEADIN OR MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE. THERE�S JiUCli MORE TO
BE TOLD m OUT THIS FINE FAHILY, BUT LST*S WAR SOME MORE OF IT FROM THE MEMBERS OF HIE 'AMILY,
