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Howard Langfltt
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I WANT TO SAY FIRST THAT I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO NEWTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT, PRICE MILLER FOR HIS VERY FINE HELP IN SKIEGTING THE Fi^ILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH ME TO THIS FAMILY'S FARM TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY I AM N X GOING TO TELL. THIS IS THE Q?
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STORY OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN HARVEY WILLIAMS AND THEIR THREE FINE SONS WHO LIVE IN THE SBlBf SWEET WATER COMMUNITY OF NEWTON COUNTY W E R E THEY OWN AND FARM 125 ACRES OF LAND AND RENT ANOTHER 80 ACRES TO CARRY ON A CROP AND DAIRYING
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PROGRAM.
JOHN WILLIAMS WAS RAISED WITHIN A
QUARTER OF A MILE OP THEIR PRESENT HOME AND MRS. WILLIAMS WAS RAISED ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE IB THE OPPOSITE DIRECTiON. THIS LAND HAD BELONGED TO JOHN'S UNCLE. HIS FATHER AND UNCLES ALL WORKED THE LAND TOGETHER THROUGH THE YEARS. BRFCRE HER MARRIAGE TO JOHN MRS. WILLIAMS WAS MISS BONNIE JEAN KENNEDY. SHE AND JOHN HAVE
KNOWN EACH OTHERMOST ALL THEIR LIVES. THEIR FAMILIES ATTENDED THE SAME CHURCH. THEY WERE SLIDE FARM-3 HOUSE MARRIED APRIL 18, 19�l WHILE JOHN WAS IN THE SERVICE. HE HAD SERVED DURING WORLD WAR TWO AND
HAD BEEN CALIED BACK INTO SERVICE DURING THE KOREAN CONFLICT. JOHN HAD BEEN DAIRYING BEFORE
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HE VSNT INTO SERVICE AMD HE RETURNED TO DAIRYIN WHEN HE CAKE OUT. MRS. WILLIAHS WENT WITH HER THERE WEREN'T
HUSBAND WHILE HE WAS IK S E R V I C E .
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ANY BUILDINGS ON THIS IAND WHEN JOHN BOUGHT I T . H E BUILT T H I S , THEIR ffiESENT HOME IN 191*9. D I D THE WORK WITH THE HELP OP A COUSIN AND A NEIGHBOR. I N PACT, J O I N BUILT ALL THE BUILDING WHEN JOHN MARRIED HE OWNED JO ffilSBNT 1 2 5 ACRES OF LAND, JOHN JOH
ON THE PLACE. ACRES OF HIS
SAYS HE GAVE UP DAIRYING AND FARMING FOR ABOUT ! A YEAR IN 1 9 5 7 . HE SOLD OUT AND WENT TO �ORK F< JOHN SAYS HE FIffURED H
T H E AIR NATIONAL GUARD.
WOULD GET RIEH AT I T BUT WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE ' W A S N ' T DOING ANY BETTER T H M HE HAD BE1N DOING A T HOME ON THS FARM H I CAM1 BACK, AND BOUGHT
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BACK INTO THE DAIRY BUSINESS.
THROUGH ALL THE
YEARS HE HAS FARMED JOHN WILLIAMS HAS ALSO CARRIED ON A ROW CROP PROGRAM. LAST YEAR WAS THIS YEAR
THE ONLY YEAR HE DIDN'T RAISE ANY.
H E HAS 1 6 ACRES AND I S HANDLING I T HIMSELF, H I R I N G DAY LABOR AS I T I S NEEDED. YEARS HE HAS USED HALF HANDS. SLIDE FARM-6 COTTON IN HIEVIOUS
YEAR IN AND YEAR
OUT H I S COTTON HAS YIFLDED A LITTLE BETTER THAN A BALE TO ffiE ACRE. T H I S YEAR, FOR THE F I R S T
T I M E JOHN WILLIAMS HAS USED PBE-EMERGE AND HE
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LIKES IT VERY MUGH. HE FOLLOWS A COMPLETE INSECT CONTROL PROGRAM STARTING EARLY AND STAYING WITH IT UNTIL HIS COTTON IS MADE. JOHI HAS ONE HASD OH THE PLACE IB USES AS A TRACTOR DRIVER AND AS A HELPER IN THE DAIRY BARN. BY
THE WAY, JOHN WILLIAMS MEASURES COTTON TO HELP SLIDE FAHM-7 SUPPLEMENT THE FARM INGOMS. HE ALSO RAISES MUCH OP HIS OWN FEED. HE HAS 2$ ACRES IN CORN
JOHH PLANTS HYBRID SEED AND HIS AVERAGE YIELD IS USUALLY 60 TO 65 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, THOUGH HE DIDN'T MAKE ANYTHING IAST YEAR AND IS HAVING SLIDE FARM-8 GORM TO BUY PEED HIGH fNOW AS A RESULT. IN PAST YEAR JOHN HAS PUT UP CORK FOR SILAGE BUT IS USING GRAIN SORGHUM THIS YEAR. HE WILL HARVEST ALL HIS CORN FOR GRAIN. �HEN JOHN WILLIAMS BOUGHT SLIDE FARMCATTLE BACK INTO THE DAIRY BUSINESS IN 1958 HI BOUGHT 18 REGISTERED GUERNSEY AND HASBOUGHT A FEW HOLSTEINS BUT SINCE TMT TIME MOST OF HIS REPLACEMENTS HAVE BBEff RAISED ON THE PLACE.
TODAY HE HAS (>k HEAD OP CATTLE...38 MILK COWS,.. AND IS PRESENTLY MILKING 22. AT PEAS PRODUCTIOI HE HAS 3k IN THE BARN. JOHN IS SAVING HIS BEST
HEIFERS FROM BOTH GURENSEY AMD HOLSTEIN COWS SLID1 FARM-10 COWS BUT AS SOON AS HE CAN GET ENOUGH GOOD GUERNSEYS HE PLANS TO GET OUT OF THE HOLSTEINS. JOHN HOPES TO EVENTUALLY HAVE I. COWS MILKING THE j0
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YES? ROUND WITH AN AVERAGE PRODUCTION OP 1 2 , 0 0 0 POUNDS CF MILK PER C0� ffiR YEAR AND HE HOPES TO DO IT I N FIVE YEARS WITH ALL GUERNSEYS. SLIDE FARM-11
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JOHN USES A R T I F I C I A L BRfEDIMQ I N H I S PROGRAM. I N 1 9 3 7 - 5 8 THE HERD PRODUCTION AVERAGE WAS ABOU1 5 , 5 0 0 LBS OP MILK PER COW PER YEAR, I T WAS 6 , 8 0 0 LAST YEAR
POUNDS AND OVER HALF THE HERD WAS HE FIGURES THE INCREASE HAS
TWO YEAR OLDS,
BEEN DUE TO BETTER FEEDIBG, USING AN ALL GRAIN RATION AND BETTER MANAGEMENT. SLIDE BULK TANK F(R TWO YEARS
JOHN HAS BEEN OH THE WEIGfi-A-DAY-A-MONTH RECORD �ROGRAM AND HE FIGURES T H I S HAS HELPED HIM D E C I D E ON BULLING SOiE COWS. JOHN USES TWO
PORTABLE MILKERS AND TWO YEARS AGO WENT BULK TANK. JOHN SAYS I F HE HAD TO GO BACK TO GAHS HE FIGURES BULK TANK I S ONE OF THE I T SAVES LABOR
HE'D QUIT.
B E S T THIHGS A DAIRYMAN CAN HAVE,
d CUTS
AND PERMITS A LOWER BACTERIA COUNT AND JOHN B E L I E 7 E S HE GETS BETTER QUALITY. NEWTOI COUNTY
I S A MODIFIED, CERTIFIED BRUCELLOSIS FREE COUNTY AND JOHN HELPS TO KEEP I T THAT WAY WITH CALFHOOD SLIDE FARM-] HEIFERS VACCIHAT^ffilf. THESE TWO HEIFERS ARE ANIMALS
THAT SONS BOB AND TERRY SHOWED IN COUNTY, DISTRIAND STATE DAIRY SHOWS LAST YEAR& JOHN GETS
ABOUT A 9 5 PERCENT CALF CROP AND ALL THE HEIFER
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CALVES ARE HANDLED INDIVIDUALLY UNTIL THEY OUf GROW THE PEN AND THEY ARE THEN PUT TOGETHER AND THE TWO BflTfS DO HOST OP THE CARING FOR THEM. THEY DO THE BOTTLE FEEDING AS WELL AS GRAIN F E E D I N G OP THE CALVES. JOHN WILLIAMS SELIS A IN THfi BARN HE
PEW OP H I S SURPLUS H E I F E R S .
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F E E D S A %($ AND MEAL.
DAIRY RATION MADS UP OP CORN, BRAN THIS I S FED ONLY TO COWS I N PRODUCTIO
T H E DRY COWS AND HEIFERS GET A 12% PROTEIN RATION. JOHN MIXES HIS WON GRAIN WITH THE HERDS WATER FOR THE LIVESTOC THE
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SUPPLEBT-Jra AND MINERALS.
I S SUPPLIED FROM THIS STOCKPOND JUST BELW
BARN AMD FROM TWO SPRING BRANCHES IN THE BSTURES PERMANENT PASTURE CONSISTS OF 6 � ACRES IN DALLIS BERMUDA, BAHAIA SRASS AND WHITE DUTCH AND CRIMSO
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CLOVER.
JOHN C L I P S H I S BL STURES FOR WE^D CONTRO: HE A S 0 LIMES B I S
AND SPRAYS FOR BITTER WEEDS,
PASTURES AND USES SOME COMK1RCIAL F E R T I L I Z E R , JOHN BEENDS PRIMARILY >N TEMPORARY GRAZING..OATS
I N THE WINTER...ABOUT 6 5 ACRES AND HE CUTS HALF O F THEM FOR HAY. HE ALSO PUTS OUT ABOUT 1$ ACRE,
OF MILLET FOR SUMMER GRAZING WITH THE FIM TING STAGGERED I N THREE DIFFERENT PLANTINSS, JOHN
PLANS TO PUT UP i j . , 0 0 0 BALES OF HAY T H I S YEAR. HE HAS BEEN PUTTING UP ABOUT 1 , 8 0 0 BALIS BUT HAS
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HAD TO DO TOO MUCH FEEDING IN THE WINTER AND SLIDE
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H O P S TO CORRECT THAT SITUATION. THIS YEAR, AS I SAID EARLIER, JOHN WILLIHISS IS GOING TO PUT GRAIN SORGHUM IN HIS TRENCH SILO. HE IS DOING THIS BECAUSE OP EXPERIMENT STATION RECOMMENDATIONS AND ON THE ADVICE OP HIS COUNTY AGENT. HI HAS 12-15 ACRES IN GRAIN SORGHUM AND X%rlLL PILL A 200 TON TRENCH FOR WINTER FEED,
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JOHN WILLIAMS ALSO HAS ABOUT SIX ACRES IN PINS TIMBER WHICH HE THINS, WEEDS AND MANAGES FCR MAXIMUM PRODUCTION. HE SET OUT ABOUT 2,000 PINE SEEDLINGS. JOHN ALSO CUTS HIS OWN PENCE POSTS AND HAS THEM CREOSOTE TREATED. BY THE
WAY HE USES ELECTRIC FENCING FOR TEMPORARY SLIDE FARM-21 CLEARED LAHP FENCING TO CONTROL HIS GRAZING, JOHN HAS ALSO
CLEARED 10 ACRES OF LAND FOR PASTURE AMD WILL CLEAR A F*� ACRES MORE OF SCRUB TIMBER GROWTH. JOHN'S PROGRAM OF IMPROVEMENT OF LAND AND LIVESTOCK IS A NEVER ENDING ONE. IT IS HIS HOPE TO
EVENTUALLY HAVE ONE OF THE NICEST FARMS IN NEWTO COUNTY AND ONE OF THE BEST REGISTERED GUERNSEY SLIDE FARM-22 GARDEN HERDS IN THE COUNTY. BY THE WAY, THE WILLIAMS PAH4 IS NAMED HAPPY ACRES AND IT'S A WktVt FAMILY I FOUND WSEN I VISITED HAPPY ACRES. THE WHOLE FAMILY WORKS IN THIS LIVE AT HOME
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PROGRAM. WHEN JOHN HAS TO BE A�AX HRS. WILLIAM! DOES THE MILKING AND fHE WHOLE FAMILY PITCHES IN WITH THE GARDENING TOO. TEST HAVE ABOUT A HALF ACRE OP GARDEN.. .SOME OP IT YEAB ROUND, SLIDE FARH-23 fr'osen' food J'ROM THE GARDEN AND OTHER SOURGES OP POOD SUPPLY MRS. WILLIAMS AHD HER MOTHER, WHO LIVES JUST DOWN THE RO\ D, DOS THEIR FRESZIN G TOGETHER AND KEEP IT IN MRS. KENNEDY'S FREEZER, TO SAVE B8TI1 ANOTHER WHICH ISN'T REALLY NEED1D. IN ADDITION SLIDE FARM-21}. CANNED FOOD TO WHAT IS FROZEN, MRS. WILLIAMS ALSO CANS ABOUT 150 JARS OF FOOD...SUCK THINGS AS JAMS, JELLIES, PICKLES, PRESERVES AND SO FORTH. MRS. WILLIAMS IS AH EXCELLENT BOOK AND ENJOYS COOEING IN HER MODERN KITCH1N. SHE ALSO IS A GOOD SLIDE FARH�-2g SEWING SEAMSTRESS AND DOES MUCH SEWING FOR HERBEIF AND HER THREE SONS. SHE ALSO MAKES MOST OF HER GURTAINS AND DRAPERIES. IN HSR SB.RE TIME SHE LIKES TO WORK IN THE FLOWER BEDS AROUND THEIR LOVELY COUNTRY HOME. MR, AND MRS. JOHN HARVEY SAMERA OH FAMILY WILLIAMS BELONG TO THE MT. VERNON BAPTIST CHURCB WHERE THEY ATTEND REGULARLY. THST ALSO BELONG TO THE SWEET WATER RURAL DEVELOPMENT GLUB. JOHN
IS CLUB RESIDENT AND BONNIE, HIS WIFE, HAS SERV ASSECRSEARY OF THE CLUB. JOHN HELPED TO
ORGANIZE THE CLUB WITH ONLY POUR OR FIVE INTERES'
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PEOPLE.
NOW FIFTB13ir FAMILIES TAKE AN ACTIVE MRS. WILLIAMS
m RT IH THF WORK OP THE OLUB.
I S ALSO A MEMBER OF THE SWEEP WATER HOME DEMQKSTRATION CLUB. JOHN BELONGS TO THE MISSIS!
I P P I MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION AND THF AMERICA] DAIRY ASSOCIATION OP M I S S I S S I P P I . AN A . S . C . COMMUNITY COMMITTE1MAN. HE I S ALSO FOR RELAJCATK
HE LIKES TO HUNT AKD P I S H . . � ESPECIALLY BIRD HUHTIKG. 1, WHERF DOES YOUR MILK 0 0 ? HAS IT ALWAYS
BEFH A FLUID MILK PROGRAM? 2, 3. !}.. I'MkT I S KEY TO SUCCESSFUL DAIRYING? WHAT ARE YOUR MAJOR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? MRS, WILLIAMS, H0� DO YOU PEEL A FARM WIFE BEST CONTRIBUTES TO THE FAMILY WELFARE? �. 6. 7. 8. WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE? WHAT I S THE HABY�S HAM1,...HO� OLD I S HE? PRICE, WILL YOU SUMMARIZE THE STORY FOR Ml DOESTHIS F M I L Y PARTICIPATE IH YOUR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES?
