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ONC1S AGAIN IT IS TIME TO SALUTE MOTHER
ARM FAMILY BAKING A REAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE TTERMMT OF AGRICULTURE IN M I S S I S S I P P I . TODAY'S STORY WAS SELECTED WITH THE VERY FINE HELP OP MARION COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT* SCOTT. SLIDE FAHM-1 THIS I S HIE STORY OF MR AND
f!RS. LEWIS WESLEY AID THEIR FAMILY I F FOUR CHILDREN. MRS. WESLEY GREif UP NORTH OF
TYLERTOWN AND MR. WESLEY GREW UP AROUND FOXWO m , MISSISSIPPI. THEY MT IN COLUMBIA,
)MR. WESLEY WAS ATTEf DING PEARL RIVER JUNIOR tGLLB&E AT THE TIME AND MRS. WESLEY HAD COME
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(TO COLUMBIA TO WORK IN THE RELIANCE MNUFACTURII t�LANT. MR. WESLEY FINISHED COLLEGE IN 1933
ND W1NT TO WORK AT THE SAME PLANT AND THEY ERE MARRIES IN 1 9 3 4 MR. WESLEY WORKED AT
E PLANT FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS AFTER THEY WERE RRIED AID THEN WENT INTO THE SAWMILL BUSINESS. E WO1KED AT SAWMILL WORK PROM 1934 TO 1 9 4 5 D IN 1943 BOUGHT THEIR PRESENT 320 ACRES OF N D . ' THEY MOVED INTO A SMALL HOUSE ACROSS I ROAD IN 1946 AFTER DOING TKNNANT HAND 'AIMING FOR 2 YEARS. THEY IMMEDIATELY SET TO MR. IfESSLBY
TO BUILD ffiEIR PRESENT iiOME.
$AWED ALL THE LUMBER FOR THIS HOUSE.
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MR. AND MRS. WESLEY STARTED OUT RGlf CROPPING ON ABOUT 20 ACRES WHICH WERE CLEARED FOR CULTIVATION* THEY ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO GO WHEN THEY
INTO THK BEEF CATTLE BUSINESS.
STARTED THEY BOUGHT A COW AND CALF, A FEW HOGS iND CHICKENS WHICH WERE OF THE F A M . BY 1 9 4 7
THEY HAD ACCUMULATED SO HEAD OF COMiERCIAL BEiiF CATTLE, WERE RAISING CORN, COTTON AND pEAS AND HAD CLEARED EIOUGH TO THEN HAVE SO ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION. MR, AND MRS. WESLEY
$ORT OF GOT PUSHED INTO THE DAIRY BUSINESS. MRS. WESLM AND THE CHILDREN HAD BEEN MILKING A FEW COWS WHILE MR. WESLEY ROW CROPPED AND CONCENTRATED ON BEEF. THE FAMILY AND THE
BOUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENTS KEPT TELLING MR. LESLEY HIS LAND WASNfT SUITED TO THAT KIND OF FARMING AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER MAKE A DECENT IVING ROW CROPPING AID RAISING BEEP CATTLE, I T TOOK MORE THAI THAT TO FINALLY GET HIM SLIDE FARH�3 COWS: IN BARN 0 MffiE A CHANGE. MRS. WESLEY CARRIED THE HER SISTER
CHILDREN TO COLUMBIA TO SCHOOL.
TOO WAS LIVING IN COLUMBIA ASKED HER TO BRING L i t WHICH WAS SCAR6E IN COLUMBIA WHEN THE
EIGHBOSS FOUND OUT THEY WANTED MILK TOO AND CONTINUED TO GR8B AND MIS. WESLEY
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&ND THE BOYS BEGAN TO BUT SOME COWS TO MEET MB INCREASED DEMAND, BY THIS TIME THEY WERE
JFLLKING SEVEN COWS AND DELIVERING 3 0 BOTTLES CH MORNING. MR. WESLEY SAD) HE SOON SAW
THAT M S . WESLEY AND THE BOYS WERE MAKING SORB MONEY THAN M WAS SO HE GAVE UP ROW SHOPPING AND BEEF AND SWITCHED TO DAIRYING. SCHOOL WAS OUT ANB MHS, WESLEY NO LONGER IAD TO GO TO TOWN EACH MORNING BIEY STARTED SELLING H E I R MILK I N BULK TO OAK LAWN DAIRY, HIRING 1HAT SUMMET MR, WESLEY DECIDED TO MAKE H I S DAIRY PROGRAM A GRADE �AN PROGRAM AM) HE I L T 2HE MODERN BARN WE SAW A MOMENT AGO. SLIDE FARH-4 CGfS SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR HE BOUGHT 2 2 HEAD OF E Y S , BEGAN CLEARING MORE OF HIS LAND AND � I N G H I S BEST HEIFBRS AND BUILDING TODAY'S I N E HERD. TODAY LEWIS WESLEY AND HIS FAMILY
R E MILKING 4 4 HEAD OF THEIR 8 5 BROOD COWS AND VE A TOTAL HERD OF 1 4 0 HEAD. KALLY WHO I S
OW 2 0 AND JERRY WHO I S 1 8 , BOUGHT SOME FINE SLIDE FARM-5 TWO COWS R E G I S T E R E D JERSESS AS 4~H CLUB PROJECTS AND HOWBD THEIR DAD THE VALUE OF QUALITY BREEDING, ODAY 7 0 HEAD OF THEIR JERSEYS ARE REGISTERED, OST OF THEIR BREEDING I S DONE ARTIFICIALLY. FACT THEY WERE 1HE FIRST I N MARION COUNTY
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TO USE ARTIFICIAL BREEDING.
ALL THE BEST
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CALVES
CALVES ARE SAVED FOR HERD REPLACEMENT AND ALL
ARE CALFHOOD VACCINATED. > TB TESTED REGULARLY. THE HERD I F BANGS A NSf CALF CROP I S
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COWS & CALVES
COMING ALONG IN FINE SHAPE TO FURTHER JfDD TO THE HERO S I Z E . LEWIS WESLEY GAVE UP CORN AND
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COTTON IN 1952 AND TODAY HIS FEED PROGRAM I S GOOD PASTURE, HAY AND SILAGE* HE RAISES
ABOUT 200 ACRES OF OATS FOR GRAIN, HAY AND SILAGE. THE B I L 0 I S FILLED TWICE A YEARt ONCE OATS
I N THE SPRING AID AGAIN IN TOE PALL.
THE SPRING AND SORGHUM IN THE FALL. THE S I L O HAS CONCRETE FLOOR AND WALLS AND HOLDS
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THE HAY CROP CONSISTS OF ALICE THEY BALE
fcLOVER, OATS AND PASTURE GRASSES. ABOUT 2500 BALES PER YEAR. 3P BAM I ,
PASTURES CONSIST
DALLIS GRASS AND CLOVER AS PERMANENT
�ASTURE AID OATS AND CAT TAIL MILLET FOR TEMPORARY GRAZING, MOST OF THE OATS I S SOD LEWIS THEY
SEEDED INTO THE PERMANENT PASTURE,
fiSLBY AND HIS BOYS BALE THEIR O N HAY. W
A SILAGE HARVESTER IN PARTNERSHIP WITH H S R NEIGHBORS AND DO CUSTOM HAY BALING, 0 1 B I N I N G , PASTURE DRILLING WSR HIS NEIGHBORS.
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OF COURSE, HATER I S IMPORTANT fO ANY MIRY PK0&RAM, AMD IT I S CERTAINLY 1 0 PROBLEM FOE
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JTHB WESLEY FAMILY,
THEY HAVE 12 STOCK WATERING
PONDS ANB A CREEK RIMS ACROSS THE BACK SIDE OF TUB H E SLIDE FAR3S�11 BESIDES R I S I N G FS3D FOR THE
M I R Y HERD AND SIX HEAD OF HOGS, MS* WESLEY
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A2fD THE BOYS ALSO RAISE THEIR O M SEED AUD W BELL SOME COMIfERCIALLI, . BiiiY STRIP THEIR OWH BAHAI GRASS, CLOVER AID 0ATS FOR SfiH). BESIDES
SAVIH& TiiBK O K OAT SE�� f FBBDI1& WHAT THE W SERB IEEDS, THBST SELL ABOUT 500 BUSHELS BACH
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THEY ALSO SAB THKTR O�I SOUGHUM SBS) # PREFER SART VARIETY AID IT I S CAREFULLY STORED IN A DRYUG HOUSE FOR HiOPER DRYIHG.
TfiE LESLEYS HAVE SAVED THEIR O N SJSfciD EVER W
JSINCE THEY SOT A COMBIIE SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
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MOTHER CROP IMPORTANT TO THE LEWIS WESLEY ?ARM PROGRAM I S TIMBER. HE HAS ABOUT SO ACRES
UP YOUIG P H E AND MERCHAHTABLIS HARDWOODS AHD (PIKE, THE TIMBER I S CAREFULLY WEEDED AND
R I O T E D A I D Evudr PRECAUTION I S TAKES TO KEEP
FIRE OUT. IN FACT THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY FIRE ALL THEIR
O THE LAFD IN THE PAST 16 YEARS. N
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LAND I S FENCED AND CROSS FEICED WITH POSTS ICH THEY CUT FROM TOUR OWN LA1TO, TREAT AND
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SET OUT.
FROM THE ORIGINAL 20 ACRES OF
CLEARED LAND, THE WESLEY'S HAVE FINALLY
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PLEASED ALL THEIR LAND BUT 70 ACRES. LAND THAT ONCELOOKED LIKE THIS I S TODAY FINE PASTIME LAUD CARRYING A PINE DAIRY HEED, THE FIRST 3 0 ACRES WAS CLEARED WITH OXEN AND LOGGING TRUCKS. THE REST OP THEIR 320 ACRES M S BEEN THE WESLEY FAMILY
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CLEARED f l f f l A BULLDOZER.
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PRACTICALLY ALL THE FOOD THEY FROM TliEIR IIALF ACRE GAEDEI MRS, I jr&SLET CANS ABOUT 100 QUARTS OF TOMATOES ASD I i>KRA. ANOTHER THREE ffiOUSAND POUNDS OF MEAT ,
D VfiGETABLBS I S FROZEN AND PUT IN THIS FOOD RBEZER. SHE RAISES CHICKENS FOR BGGS AMD THE LEWIS WESLEY HOME ELECTRICITY
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OOD FOR TME FAMILY.
S COMPLETELY MODERN IN ETERY M Y .
URNISHED BY THEPMRL RIVER ELECTRIC POWER SSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA HAS MDE THE FARM
ItOME C0JIF01-TABLE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AND
P L E A S U R E , SPECIALLY IN THE KITCHEN, FOR . WESLEY.
CAMERA OH FAMILY
NOT ONLY HAVE MR AND MRS. LEWIS
L E S L E Y MADE A REAL SUCCESS OF THEIR FARM IOGRAM BUT THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN IMP0RI4NT COGS ' THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR
COMMUNITY AND COUNTY. THEY ARE MEMBERS OF
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THE BYLIS CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH MEME MR. fffiSLGY I S A STEWARD, CHURCH TREASURE! AID SECRETARY, ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND OFFICES OF HIE HENS CLUB. MRS. WBSLBY I S
OF THE WOMSKS SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN g , BAUGHTM J M N I E I S CHURCH PIANIST AND FAITH CHAISII4N OP WE SUB-DISTRICT MBTHODISf FELLOWSHIP, JESNIE I S ALSO S^RBIARY
OF HIE SMIOR CIASS AT COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL, R ^ I D K I T OP EER MOME R O ^ 0 1 THE STUDMf S I OUNCIL, SfiCRBTAlI OF THS Y-fEBIS AH) A EHS�R OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SEXTEf � MALLY AMD
JERRY BOffl PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR WO YEARS. THEY BOTH HAYS ATTI^DID PEARL RIYER JUNIOR C 0 L L E G 3 FOR TifO YEARS AID JERRY WAS SOLOIST THE PEARL RIVER JUNIOR C O L L I E GLEE CLUB. WIFE I S A FORMER 4*H CLUB GJML, IS
PACT THEY FIRST MET 0 1 A BUS TAKING THS! TO STATE 4-H CLUB CONGRESS* MRS. HALLY LESLEY
STATE 4*H CLUB COSGRSSS FOR WO YEARS AND WALLY AND JERHY ATTEND� THREE YSARS. . WESLEY I S P R ^ I D i ^ T OF THE MARION COUNTY FASJI BUREAU, AN A . S . C . COMMUNITY COMIflTTEEMAN,
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ASSOCIATION M B PRESENTLY A DIRECTOR,
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PRESIDENT OF THE EAST JftRION COMMUNITY CLUB, HMBER OF THE COLUMBIA CHAMB� OP C0MERCE IPORSSTRY AID MIRY COMMITTEES. MRS. WESLEY
AS A HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEMBER FOR EVMAL YEARS AND MAS PRESIDENT 0F THE COUHTY
OMB DfflONSfRAflON COUNCIL FOH TWO YEARS, E PAST SIX YMRS SHE HAS WORKED I I THE & M C H U T 1 DIVISION OF THE RELIANCE MAMJFACTURIS COMPAJTY AW VSES THIS ADDITI01AL MONET FOS
SCHOOL TUITION FOR IMS CHILBRM, TO GIVE THE mBMWm MUSIC LESSONS AND PE0FID1 AIDITIOHAL THIS I S INBffiD A
pOHFORTS FOR T�E FAMILY.
HARD WQRJ&I& FAMILY THAT LOVES THBIR WORK, PKIEIR C0W1UNITY AND THEIR Ml ! OF LIFE, fflST
| ARE INDiaSD A FAMILY WORTHY OF OUS S A UTE AS EHE OUTSTANDING FARM FAJfILT OF
