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DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO WINSTON COUNTY AGBHT, GLAtfDl KINS AND HOME D1M0HSTRATI0H AQEWS, MRS, MARY YOUNG FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IH SELEGf IW THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOUJ0 WITH ME TO THEIR FARM ON A VERY DRMRY* RAIHY DAY TO HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I AM HOW G0IH8 TO TSLL, I WANT TO SAY* FIRST OFF, THAT THIS FAMILY WAS CH0SE1C IH DECEMBER AS THE OUTSTAHDIHG FARM FAMILY IK THE WINSTOH COUHTY RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, THIS IS THE STORY OF MR* SLIB1 FARM-] FAMI A JO MRS. ERVIH 8. BOSWELL AND THEIR DAUGHTER, AHif, WHO LIVE IH THE CALVARY COMMUNITY OF WINSTOJ COUNTY WHERE THEY OWN AND FARM 200 AGRES OF LAND. IN FACT, ERVIN HAS LIVID ON THIS LAND MOST OF HIS LIFE. HE WAS BORN ^UST TWO AND A HALF MILES AWAY AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO THIS VERY FARH f AFTER HE WAS BORN. MRS. SOSWELL WAS, 2 HER MARRIAGE, MISS MARGARET CALLAHAN AND GREW UP IN PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI. SHE AND SLIDE FAHM-g HOUSE ERVIH BOSHKLL MET WHEN SHE CAME TO LOUISVILLE TEACH SCHOOL. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1938. S f il IS STILL TEACHING SCHOOL IN ADDITION TO HER aOMEMAKING DUTHS. SHE HAS TAUGHT FOR Z$ YEARS, 13 YEARS IN THE LOUISVILLE SCHOOL. THE BOSWBLL FAMILY HASN'T ALWAYS LIVED IN THIS LOVELY HOHS.
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I H FACT, THEY JUST COMPLETED I T AND MOVED INTO I T THIS PAST YEAR. THEY TORE DOWN THS OLD HOME
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MODERN IH EVERY WAY AND A REAL #)Y IN WHICH TO KEEP HOUSE ABD MAKE A HOME, I F YOU DRIVE DOWff HIGHWAY 2$ PROM LOUISVILLE TO CARTHAS1 YOtPLL SEE THIS LOVELY HOME ABOUT SIX MILES SOUTHWEST OP LOUISVILLE. OF THE HIGHWAY. I T SETS OH THE RIGHT HAMD SIDE EBVIM BOSWELL HAS FARMED ALL
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ABOUT a 95>% UDI CHOP. M V I H BOfiWKLL CALF A WOULD LIKE EVENTUALLY TO HAVE 75 HEAD OF CATTLE AND INTENDS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE HHAT HE HAS AN� WORE TOWARD THAT 0OAL. HE HAS HAD AS MAM A S 60 HEAD AT TIMES. ERVXN HAS ALSO BESJT RAISIH
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HOGS ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAS FIVE REGISTERED DUROG SOWS AHD IS SAVXBG KIQHT 0ILTS FOR NEXT IEAR. SOME YEARS HE KILLS AS KA11Y AS TEN HOGS FOR HOME USB AMD TO SELL HAMS TO FOLKS IH THE AREA. HI HAS �1VER QQW THROUGH A WIHTER WITHOXT KILLING AT LEAST SIX ERVIN HAS O f i FARROWIMG lf
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CRATE AMD FARROWS TWO LITTERS PER XEAR. OHE OF THE THIHGS HE PLAHS TO DO THIS XEAR IS TO BUILD ABOUT SIX OR SBVEN MORE OF THEM. BRVIW AVERAGES SA?I�G ABOUT S PISS TO THE LITTSl. HE WEANS TBU AT SIGHT WEEKS AMD MARKETS THEM AT ABOUT 200 POUHDS. HE WORMS AMD VAQCINATES HIS HOGS AMD IS PROBABLY AT THE MAXIMUM RIGHT HOW. THE NUMBE OF HOGS HE RAISES DEPESDS OH THE MARKET OF GOURSI ER?I� BOSWELL RAISES SHOUGH OORH FOR ALL HIS
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LIVESTOCK PROGRAM AM) HAS SOME TO SELL. HE PLAIO 75 AORSS AND HIS YISSD AVERAGES ABOUT f$ BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. THE CATTLE GET HAY AHD GRAIN Iff THE WINTER AHD OF COURSE THE HOGS ARE CARRIED THROUGH TO MARKET 01T GRAIN. AFTER THE CORH IS PICKED ERVIN GRAZED IBS STOCK FIELDS TO GET FULL USE FROM THEM. THEN AFTER THE LIVESTOCK HAS
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GLEANED UP THE FIELDS ERVIN BOSWKLL FOLLOWS ANOTHER VERY GOOD PRAGTICS. HE KNOCKS THOSE STALKS DOWN AND DISCS THEM IN. ERVIN ALSO RAISES COTTON AND THIS PAST E A R HAD 35 ACHES WHICH AVERAGED A BALE AND A QUARTER TO THE ACRE. HE HAS THREE FAMILIES ON THE PLACE WHICH HANDLE THE COTTON ON THE SHARES. ERVIN HAS ALWAYS RAISED COTTON AND IS ONE OF THE BEITER COTfOK SLIDE FARM-XX MEN IN PASTURE PRODUCERS IN WINSTON COUNTY. HE RECALLS THAT A HALF BALE USED TO BE A GOOD YIELD. NEST YEAR SE�S PLANNING TO SHOOT AT TWO BALES TO THE ACRE 9N ALL HIS CROP. OF COURSE GRAZING IS A VITAL PART OF THIS LIVESTOCK PROGRAM., EHVIN GRACES HOGS AND CATTLE IN SEFERATE PASTURES. WINDER GRAZING CONSISTS OF OATS...ABOUT 2$ ACRES WHICH m GRAZES TILL MARCH AND THEN TAKES THE CATTLE
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WHAT THESE PIGfORES GAH SHOW. WATER FOB THE LIVESTOCK 18 SUPPLIED FROM THHES STOCK PGUDS SIMILAR TO THIS AND A SPRING FED BRAHOH WHICH IS Dfiir, ERVIH BOSWELL IS A GOHFLKTBL1 MECHANIZED FARMER, THOUGH BE DOES OWN THREE HOLE AND AH MAKE. WHAT'S MORE BE HAS TAKEN STEPS TO MQTmZZ PROfEGf HIS VALTKiBLE MACHINERY IH THIS HACHIHE aHSD, HB HAS TWO fRAGfOHS AMD ALL $HE NEGESSARy SqtTIPHENT FOR fBE ROW-GKOPPIHa AMD PASTTJRE PROC3-RAM HE CARRIES OUT. ER�IW B03WELL &LS0 HAS ABOUT �0 ACRES IN TIMBER, MOSTLY PIME, WHICH HE fHIHS AHD SlLSOfXVEIS' "HARVESTS. FROM HIS f IMBER HE GBSfS IOCS OVN F1U0S FOSWS AID IAS THSM eSEGSOTiJD IM LOUISVIISS AT TflE GRSOSOTIHa FUHT. OVER ^m ifEARS SINGS HE WAS A BOY ERVIN HAS 0LEARBD ALL THE FLAGS EXCEPT TEN ACRES AND HK HAS DONE IT M HAMD. ERVIH BOSWELL WORKS ffiR CLOSE WITH HIS COUMTY A G E W , CLAUDE MI>JG, OH THE LEFT, AND WITH OTHER A0BIGSLTURAL AGENCIES IH THE GOUNfir. HE SEEKS THEIR ADVICE AND THEN TRIE fO FOLLOW IT TO THEBEST OF HIS ABILITY. AS I SAID IK THE BEGINNING, MRS. BOSWELL TEACHES SCHOOL IN LOtflSVILLl,..*AHD HAS FOR 13 YEAHS, SHE IS THIRD GRADE fBACHIR. SHE ALSO CARRI1S QM
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AH SXCELLEHT HOMEMAKIffG PROGRAM, WITH THE VERY SUE CAPABLE H1LP OP DAUGHTER AM* OF COURSE, AHD ALSO OF HER VERY PINE HOME DEMONSTRATION AG1BT, MRS, HABIT YOU8G. PROM THEIH TWO A0RES OF GARDElf, SOME OF If YEAR ROUJ�, MRS. BOSWBLL EACI
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1TEAK FREEZES AB0TO 2,000 FOlfHDS OF POOB, GQVffiXl THE MEAT OP COURSE, �HS. YOUHG SOMS IT W IH THESE WORDS..�AMYTHIMG THEY HEED AND WANT, THEY HAVE. IN ADDITION SHE POTS UP ANOTHER 300 JARS OF FOOD.##fHI8GS LIKE PICKLES, AND JAMS AMD JELI IES, TOMATOES, BEAHS A�D JUIOSS. THIS FAMILY LOVES TO EAT AKD MRS. BOSWELL SEES TO IT THAT THEY HAVE PLEHTY OF FOOD AT ALL TIMES. SHE ALSC
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MODERN. MRS. BOSWELL AND SUE ANN BOTH SEW ALSO. THEY BOTH DO MUCH OF tB&JR OWH SSWIHG AND MAKE MOST OF THEIR DRAPERIES AHD CURTAINS, THEY BOTI EHTER BOTH FOOD AHD CLOTHING IN THE 03UHTY FAIR EXHIBITS. SUE AHN MADE ?5 EXHIBITS AT THE FAIR THIS PAST FALL AHD MRS. BOSWELL MADE l\$� HtS. BOSWELL AND 16 YEAR OLD SUE AHH SEEK THE ADVICE OF THEIR HOMS DSMOHS^RATIOH AGEHT* MRS,
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AID THEY USE THAT ADVISE TO IMPROVE THEIR HOJJE MAKING AND FARM LIVING, WITH THE SELF OF I�S, YOUNG THEY KEEP COMPLETE AMD ACCURATE RECfMDS � IN THE KOMSMA1IMG PROGRAM AHD IN SUE ANN*3 i , H |CLUB WORK. MRS. YOUNG TELLS HE SUE ANN IS ONE SLIDE GIRL AT PIANO OF THE OUTSTANDING M l CLUB MEMBERS IN WlNaf ON COUNT? AMD HAS BEEN A MEMBER FOR SIX YEARS. SHI IS SECRETARY Of HER SCHOOL ^ H CLUB AND IS SSCRKTARY OF THE GDUNTY tTUHIOR 4�H CLUB COUNGH AMONG MM l%*n CLUB PRG31CTS ARE POODf CLOTHIMG* UCm ABOUNDS ^AUTIPIiATION# FHOZEN POODS, P1RS0NALITY HfPROVEMBNT* GARDSN, SAFETY, HEALTH, SLIDE AT DESK HOME IMPROVEMENT! LEADERSHIP AND ELECT1I0# SUE ANN WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE INSTRUMENT DIVISION OF THE i}.~S TALENT PROGRAM THIS PAST YEA HER PRINCIPLE PROJEGT IS ELECTRIC. SHE PLANNED ALL THE WIRING FOR THEIR HOME AND HAS DEVELOPED THIS RECOMMENDED STUDY AREA* SUKfei ANN IS A JUNIOR AT LOUISVILLE HIOH SGHOOL.�#A M^atlER OF THE BSTA CLUB, $W� CLUB, GIRL�S CIORUS, SEXTETTE AND ETUDS DRAMATICS CLUB* Mt. AHD GAHSRA OH FAMILY ERVIN BOSW1LL AND DAUGHTER ARE MMBERS OF THE CALVARY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE SUE ANN IS CHURCH PIANIST AND MIS. BOSWELL IS SUPBRIN^EMI ENT OP THE SUNDAY SCHOOL . SHE IS ALSO VERY
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IN THE CALVARY HOME DEMONSTRAT ION CLUB AND PARTICIPATES IN ALL THE COUNTY AM) COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.... SUCH A3 THE VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SHOWS AND THE DRESS REVUE. SHE ANB SUE ANN WERE GOUNTY WINNERS AND ONE OF THE DISTRICT WINNERS IN THE COTTON DRESS REVUE. MRS. BOSWKLI WAS COUNTY KITCHEN CONTEST WINNER IH 1959. TBS FAMILY IS ACTIVE IN THE CALVARY COMMUNITY RURAL DEVELOPMENT CLUB. THE PAiOLY BELONGS TO THE PARK BUREAU. MRS. BOSWELL AHD SUE ANN DESIGHED THEIR LOVELY HOME. I COULD TALK OH AT GREAT LENGTH ABOUT THIS PINE WINSTON COUNTY FAMILY BUT NSW I WANT YOU TO MEET THEM. 1. HOW DOES YOUR COTTON PRODUCTION TODAY DIFPSB PROM BACK IN THE THIRTIES? 2 . HOW MUCH DO YOU RECKON YOUR PER ACRE PRODUCT ION HAS INCREASED OVER THE YEARS? 3. HOW MUCH HAS THE COST OF PRODUCTION IN0IHASE k* MRS BOSWELL, WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR HOME? WHAT ARE THE GREATEST CHANGES PROM THE WAY YOU USED TO DO? 5. SUE ANN, WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS AFTER SCHO0X? 6. DO YOU WORK OUTSIDE ANY WITH THE LIVBSTO0K? 7. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD RATHER LIVE IN TOWN?
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