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WELL, ONCE AGAIN I T I S TIME TO SALUTE ANOTHER FARM FAMILY MAKIHG AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BETTER FARMIft I I MISSISSIPPI. THIS I S THE
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MRS, LESTER TAHKSLEY AKD
THEIR TlfO DAUGHTERS AID SON, OP ROUTE 1 , LORMAN MISSISSIPPI. TOMY�S FAMILY WAS SELECTED WITH
THE VERY FINE HELP OP MR. V.R. DYKES, ASSISTAN COUMTY AGENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, MR. AND MRS.
TANKSLEY MET IN HIGH SCHOOL AND WERE HIGH SCHOO; SWEETHEARTS. BE NOW OWNS. MR. JANXSLEY GREW UP ON THE LAND MR. TANKSLEY TOOK 07BR OPESATION
OF THE LAND WHEN HE WAS 1 5 WHILE HIS FATHER SEVBD AS TAX ASSESSOR IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. HE STARTED OUT FARMING 250 ACRES AND WHEN HE AHRIEB 22 YEARS AGO HE BROUGHT HIS BRIDE TO THIS FARM. OVER THE YEARS THEY HAVE BUILT TOMY THEIR
ON TO AND REMODELED THEIS HOME
FA1M LAND CONSISTS OF 400 ACRES WHICH THEY OWN D ANOTHER 240 ACRES WHICH THEY LEASE. SLIDE FARM~2 CATTLE HIEY STARTED THE FARM WAS PRB&RILY WHEK
COTTON
JJTD CORN PATCH FARMING AND HAD 9 TEIMANT FAMILIES LIFI8G OB THE IAID. BESIDES COTTON
AND CORN LESTER TANKSLEY HAD 30 HEAD OF COMIIERC1 CATTLE
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OVER TH1 YEARS HE HAS CLEARED ALL BUT
7S ACRES
OF THE 4 0 0 ACRES OF LAND, AND TOMY 14� HMD OF COMK SOCIAL CATTLE GRAZE THE LAKD. IRE
LIVESTOCK PROGRAM I S PRIMARILY A COW AND CALF PROGHAM, WISH 100 HEAD OF MOOD COWS, SLIDE FARMOF THE COWS ARE HALF SANTA GfiKTSUDIS, SAHtA GERfRUDIS COWS AM USED TO BREED A STURDIER STOCK OF COMJIERCIAL CATTLE. LESTM tHIRfY THESE
cows
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EAHKSLBY GETS ABOUT A 90 PERCMT CALF CROP FROM
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HE CULLS HIS HERD CLOSELY TO GET
JRID OF NOM-PROmJCERS AND SAVES HIS BEST HEIFERS tOR HERD RfiPIACQfMT. EACH WINTER HE BUYS
ABOUT 80 HEAD OF CALVES WHICH HE CARRIES THROUG] WIITER ON TEMPORARY GRAZING OF OATS AID SELLS IN THE SPRING AS FAT CALVES,
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EVERYTHING BROUGHT ONTO THE P U C E I S VACCINATED IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT SPRE4DIN DISEASE THROUGH I I S HERD. HE FOLLOWS A CONSISTENT SPRAY PROGRA
ON HIS CATTLE AHD HAS BACK-RUBS STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FOR HORN FLY CONTROL. LIKE MOST GOOD
COMMERCIAL CATTLE PRODUCERS LESTER TAIKSLEY SLIDE FARM-5 BULL FARM-6 YOUKG MJLL BREEDS HIS COWS TO I?EGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS U S HAS FOUR HULLS IN SERVICE AT THE PRESENT TIME AND I S RAISING YOUNG BULLS TO REPLACE THESE AS THEY OUTGROW THEIR USEFULNESS. Jfl.
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FOLLOWS A YEAR ROUND GRAZING PROGRAM
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AID SUPPLEMENTS THIS WITH HOME GROWN GRAIN DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. LESTER TANKSLEY AND
SON KENNETH HAVE ABOUT 120 ACRES IN PERMANENT
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IMPROVED PASTURE.
THIRTY ACRES OF IT I S IN
KUDZU AND THE REST IN RE-SEADING CRIMSON CLOVER,WHITE CLOVER, BERMUDA GRASS, M L L I S
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BRASS, LBSPEDEZA AND WILD WINTER PEAS .
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OP THE TEMPORARY GRAZING I S PUT IN WITH A SOD SEEDER. LEST0R TANKSLBY RAISES ABOUT 90 ACRES
OF TEMPORARY GRAZING CONSISTING OF 40 ACRES OF OATS AND WILD WINTER PEAS AND SO ACRES OF OATS JtLONE, HE PUTS UP ABOUT 600 BALES OF OAT HAY MUCH
AND BERMUDA GRASS AND LESPEDEZA HAY.
OF THE LAND WHICH HAS BRffl CLEARED OVER THE SLIDE TIMBER YEARS LOOKED LIKE THIS GROVE OF TREES BEFORE I T WAS CLEARED. EARLY IN HIS FARM PROGRAM,
LESTER TAIKSLEY MOVED HIS COTTON GHBUND EACH YEAR AND CLEARED NEW GROUND TO P I T INTO COTTON, AND PUT THE OLD COTTON GROUND INTO GRASS. IN
THIS MANNER AM) ALSO BY USING A BULLDOZER MOST OF THE 400 ACRES OF LAND HAS BEEN CLEARED SINCE LESTER TANKSLEY BEGAN FARMING I T . HE CUTS HIS
O N OAK AND BLACK LO UST FENCE POSTS AND THE W FARM I S COMPLETELY FENCED AKD CROSS FMCED. AS SHE LAID HAS BEEN CLEARED, GULLIES HAVE
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BEM FILLED IN AND SEEDED OVER TO HOLD K!E SOIL SLIDE FARM-11 LESTER TAMSLEY HAS ABOUT 25 ACRES OF CORN WHIG WILL BE PULLED AND USED FOR LIVESTOCK FEED DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. HERE WE GET A LOOK
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AT THE QUALITY OF THIS YEAR'S CROP ASS MR. XXM T A N K 5 L � , SON KENNETH, AND ASSISTANT COUNTY AGE DYKES SHUCK SOME OF IT BACK TO SHOW THE FINE HELL DEVELOPED EARS. SLIDE FARM~12 STO K POND BESIDES PASTURE AND FEED
GRAIN, WATER PLAYS A MIGHTY IMPORTANT PART IN THE FARM PROGRAM. SEVEN STOCK PONDS SIMILAR
TO THIS (MS SUPPLY ALL THE WATER THAT IS EEDED AROUND THE FARM FOH WATERING LIVESTOCK. OST OF THE PONDS ARE STOCKED WITH FISH TO OVIDE PLEASURE AND FOOD F<R THE FAMILY. LESTER TANKS LEY STILL RAISES SOME COTTON, SLIPS FARM-13 COTTON THOUGH NOT AS MUCH AS HE OHCE DID. THIS YEAR
BE HAS ABOUT 1 3 AND A HALF ACRES AND IT WILL AVERAGE Ai OUT A BALE TO THE ACRE. BY THE WAY,
THIS FIELD HAS ALREADY BEST PICKED OVER ONCE, AND HAS YIELDED SIX BALES. MACHINERY TAKES THE
PLACE OP TENIANT FAMILIES AND TODAY ONLY TWO FAMILIES LIVE ON THE FARM AND NEI&HER OF THEM ANY CROPPING. SLIDE FAM~U FOOD FOR THE FAMILY I S AS
ITAL TO THE TANKSLEY FARM AND HOME PROGRAM AS I S FOOD FOR THEIR LIVESTOCK
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ACRE GABDEN THEY HAVE ADDITIONAL PATCHES OF POTATOES, SWEET POTATOES, PEAS AID CORN FOR THE FAMILY LARDER. PRODUCE JHE LESTER TANKS LEY FAMILY
PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING THE CONSUME
AMD THE WHOLE FAMILY WORKS TO PRODUCE AN) I THE FOOD SUPPLY. W I N DAUGHTERS, KAY
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FARM�1S
AND FAYE TANKSLEY HELP TO CAM MUCH OF THE SO QUARTS OF FO0D THAT I S CANNED EACH YEAR, ND WITH THEIR MOTHER THEY FREEZE ANOTHER 2 f 0 0 0 POUNDS OF FRUIT, VEGETABLES AND MEAT 1AC] YEAR, THE GI1SL AND THEIR MOTHER RAISE ABOUT THEY
LAYING HENS FOR EGGS FOR THE FAMILY.
CULL THEIR HMS CLOSE AND REPLACE M M WITH PULLETS AS THEY GO OUT OF PRODUCTION, AS FAST
S THE HENS QUIT LAYING 1HEY GO INTO HiE DEEP i FREEZE, MEMBERS. BOffi GIRLS ARE OUTSTANDING 4 - H CLUB LAST YEAR THEY HAD THE SECOND PLACE
) M O N S T A I 8 T I 0 N TEAM IN THEIR CLAS AT STATE 4 - H CLUB CONGRESS AND TfilS YEAR, FAYE HAD THE SLIDE
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!STATE CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL DAIRY FOODS DEMONSTRATION. HERE WE SEE HER WIffi THEIR
>ASTEURIZER WHICH THEY USE TO PASTEURIZE ALL HLK FOR THE FJf ILY*S USE, SLIDE FARH�I� MRS, TANKSLSY WS, TANKSLBY I S
AGtTIYE IN HOME BMONSTHTION WORK AMD PROUDLY EXHIBITS SOME METAL ETCHING SHE HAS DOME. SHE
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ALSO REFINISHSS HER FURNITUHE AND SHE AMD THE BIRLS DO THEIR O N SSWING, W I SLIDE .FAffliyl8. CHUICH THE TANKSLEY FAMILY
|ARE MEMBERS OF THE BLUE HILLS METHODIST CHURCH ERE MRS. TANK5LEY I S SUPERINTENDENT OP THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AID HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST TEN:M YEARS , SHE ALSO HAS TAUGHT THE YOUTH CLASS
OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR ME M ST 12 YEARS. Y I S CHUHCH PIAKIST I D EEDED. CAMERA ON FAMILY FAYB ASSISTS mm
BOTH GIRLS ARE SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
IJT THEIl SUM1AY SCHOOL, . TANKSLEY IS A MEMBER OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU AW THE COUNTY LlfESTQCK
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SSOCIATION.
MRS. TANKSLEY IS PRESIDENT OF
COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRATION COUNCIL, I S j i - H CLUB ADVISOR OF THEBLLE HILLS HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB, I S SECRETARY OF THE COUNTY 4-H CLUB ADVISORY COUNCIL, HAS BEEN BULT LMnm OF THE RED LICK 4-H CLUB FOR 8
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EARS AND I S FIRST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY GARDEN CLUB, 18 YEAR OLD
NETH IS A GRADUATE OF RED LICK HIGH SCHOOL, [AS A 4-H CLUB MEHBER FOR 4 YEARS, ATTENDED INDS JUNIOR COLLEGE IA ST YEAR, I S A MSKBEt OF E NAVAL RESEtVE AND I S THIS YEAR FARMING WITH I S FATHER, HE PLANS TO IMTiR COLLEGE NEXT
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YEAR WITH HIS SISTERS KAY AND FAYE.
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KAYE AND
FAYE TANKSLEY HAVE BEi2f 4*H CLUB MEMBERS FOR YEARS. KAY I S PRESIDENT OF THE JEFFERSON
OUNTY 4*H CLUB COUNCIL AND PRESIDENT OF THE LICK 4-H CLUB. FAYE I S VICE PRESIDENT
THE JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUB COUNCIL AND ITCCE PRESIDENT OF THE RED LICIT 4*H CLUB. BOTH
I R L S WERE REPRESENTATIVES OP THE COUNTY AT THE STATE XX 4-H CLUB LEADERSHIP TRAINING CONFERENCE THIS YEAR AND BOTH PLAY ON THE FIRST TEAM OF TliB RED LICK HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL THIS IS TRULY A FAMILY THAT WORKS HARD IN. THEIR COffiUNITY TO MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE. I THEY NOT ONLY CONTRIBUTE
TO A BETTER AGRICULTURE IN MISSISSIPPI BY BKEIR O N FARHISG PROGRAM BUT THEY CONTRIBUTE W FO BETTER FARM LIVING BY THEIR DEVOTION TO THE SPIRITUAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURIL PHASES OF RUBAL L I F E . THEY ARE DEVOTING TKEIR iSFFORTS
A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR MISSISSIPPI FARM ?OLKS AND WE ARE PROUD TO SALUTE THM AS OUR 3UTSTANDING FARM FAMILY OF THE WEEK, A FAMILY DF WHICH JEFFERSON COUNTY CAN WELL BE PIOUD AND FAMILY OP WHICH THE WHOLE STATE CAN BE PROUD.
