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CAMERA OH LANGFITT
I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO WAL THALL COUNTY AGENT JELL ESTESS, ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT SAM DYAR ASSOC1AT1 H0M1 AGENT JANI REi&E FOR ffiETR HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WE SALUTI A I D IN GOING WITH MB TO OBTAIN THE STOUT.
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I S THE STORY OF M.
AND I R S . GEORGE WILSON
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BULLOCK AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN WHO LIVE NINE flLES NORTH OF TYL1RTOWN M I S S I S S I P P I ON ROUTE j5. GEORGE WILSON BULL0CF MARRIED HIS LOVELY I N MAY OF 1 9 4 1 WHILE HE WAS SERVING IN THE OF HIS COUNTRY. WHEN GEORGE WILSO1
[AS DISCHARGED FROM THE SEKVTC1 IN OF 1 9 4 5 HE BOUGHT FORTY ACRES OF HIS PRESENT LAND AND MOVED TO IT IN JAKJASY OF 1946, I S BEAUTIFUL HOUSE WAS NOT ON THE FARM AT THAI [ME. IN FACT I T WAS STARTED IN FEBRUARY OF TH3 A LITTLE L4T1R
R AND I S NOT COHPIET1D YET.
I ' L L SHOW YOU THUS FIRST HOME AND TELL OF 1HE ORK THAT WENT INTO BUILDING THIS PRESENT LOVELV OME. WHEN WILSON BULLOCK STARTED FARMING IN
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9 4 6 HE HAD FIVE DAIRY COWS AND fWO HEIFERS AND MOSTLY ROW CHOPPING. HIS FIRST COWS WERE Y ORDINARY ONES AID HIS PROGRAM OP BREEDING THE QUALITY OF HIS HERD I S ONB OF HIS MOST '
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OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
PROM THE VERY
3 E G O T I & M WILSON BULLOCK SOLD H I S GRADE "A N TCILK I N NEW ORLEANS*
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HE HAS ADDED TO H I S HERD
RADUALLY UNTIL TODAY HE HAS 4 7 HEAD OF CATTLE* S GROWTH HAS WETL SLW BECAUSE HE HAS DONE I F
TIRBLY BY SAYING HIS OWI REPMCJEl^T HEIFSJS 0 GRAWiALLY IMPROVE THE HERB QUALITY. AT,THE
RESENT TIME WILSOK BULLOCK HAS 27 MILK C�fS SB I S MILKISG 2S* SLIDE FARM-4 CWS HE IS WORKHG TOWARD THEX
M Y WHM H I WILL HAVE 40 MILK COWS IH HIS HERD 0 THAT HE MIGHT BE MILKING?* 30 COWS AT ALL IMBS. THE HMD HAS FRESH VATES AT ALL TIMBS
ROM THIS STOCK POHD HHICH WILSON MJLLOCK BUIHP IMSELF SISCB HE CAME TO THIS LAND, I GUESS X
D BETTER SAY THAT IJT 1 9 5 1 triLSOS BUULOCK LAND TO HIS ORIGINAL 4 0 ACRES SO fHAT TODAY HE OWJTS 164 ACRES OF FARM IAM. Uf
BDITIOH TO G R A Z I ^ , ALL MILK COWS AND CALVES NC NOT ON A COW GET GRAIN EVERY DAY. HE HAS BRED HIS HE
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I S COWS TO A REGISTERED BULL SINCE 1 9 4 6 . ENT BULL I S A REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL.
ALSO DOES SOME ARTIFICIAL BREEDING AND THESE M E S S I N G PROGRAMS HAVE GREATLY IMPROVED THE PRODUCTION OF THE HERD, HIS COWS AVERAGE
i , 0 0 0 POUNDS OF MILK EACH, YEARLY.
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EORGE WILSON BULLOCK HAS 12 HEIFERS AND 9 CALVES. ALL OF HIS CALVES ARE CALFHOOD VACCINA1
INS HB SPMYS REGULARLY FO1 PARASITE CONTROL* HE EAS A DIPPING VAT FOR HIS CATTLE WHICH HE , CONSTRUCTED HIMSBLF. GEORGE WILSON BULLOCK'S
WITH HIS M I R Y HMD I S TO HCREASE THE am PRODUCTION AOT HE'S 0 1 THE EIGHT, PROGRAM WHEN HE STARTED DAIBIX9G
TO GET THE JOB DONE. SLIDE FARM�7 ffiJOT
HE WENT TO WORK AND BUILT HIS O N MILKING BASN W T I S N ' T AS FINE A BARN AS H I HOPES TO HAVE ONE Y , BUT HIS I S A PRACTICAL PROGRAM AND HE DOES T HE CAN AFFORD TO DO AS BE GOES ALONG AND ROVES IT AS HE CAN. WHitE HIS BAIN I S A ROUC
RAME BUILDING IT I S WELL EQUIPPED WITH CONCRETE SLIDE FA INSIDE ?LOOR IN THE MILKING BARN WITH STANCHIONS ; IOLD ABOUT EIGHT COWS AT A TIME. f0
THE BARN I S
CBPT SPOTLESSLY CLEAN AND SANITARY IN EVERY WAY
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0 MEET GRADE *An PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS.
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; H L K PROCESSING ROOM I S ALSO KEPT SPOTLESSLY CLEAN WITH PORTABLE MILKING MACHINES AND. UTENSII THOROUGHLY STERILIZED. A LARGE COOLER HOLDS II
'ME MILK UNTIL I T I S PICKED UP 1ACH DAY.
UGUST OF LAST YEAR GEORGE WILSON BULLOCK START! ?G OUT A BALANCED FARM AND HOME PROGRAM m THE WALTHALL COUNTY ASSOCIATE AGENTS.
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UP UNTIL THAT TIME HIS CATTLE FEEDING PROGRAM HAD BEEN OIE OF CORN AND A DAIRY FEED. TODAY
HE I S FEEDING A BALANCED U% DAIRY RATION CONSISTING OF HOMB GROWN GRAIN AND THE NECESMK1 ENT, WILSON BULLOCK'S PASTURE CONSISTS
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OF 40 ACRES OF PERMANENT GRAZING MOSTLY WHITE DUTCH, MLLIS GRASS, BAHAI, AND CRIMSON CLO�1R# S � CLIPS HIS PASTURES REGULARLY FOR WEED CONTROl H I E FIRST THING HE DID WHEN HE START� W0R1IS& f I T H THE COUITY AGENTS OFFICE ON TH1 BALANCED ?ATM AND HOI* P1C&RAM WAS TO HAVE HIS SOIL WHICH RESULT!� IN MORE LIBERAL APPLICATIC F E R T I L I Z E , INCLUDING THE START OF A f&STURg TRATING PROGRAMf WHICH HAS PAYED OFF IN
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GRAZING FOR HIS LITBSTOCK.
WEEN GEOSGE
WILSON BULLOCK BOUGHT HIS LAND IT WAS PRETTY
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RUN DOWN A ND GROWN UP TO BRIA1S AND SWB8T UM BUSHES, HE WMT TO WORK AND HAS C L M M
5 ACRES OF SCRUB GROWTH WITH A BULLDOZER AND HAS TAKEN HIS BUSH HOG AND CLEAE1D THE BUSHES ROM THE RSST OF I I S LAND, FOR TSfflPORARY
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WILSON BULLOCK HAS 20 ACRES IN OATS
ICH HE USES FOR WINTMJ GRAZING AND THEN CUTS HAY.
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HE ALSO PUTS OUT ABOUT 8 ACMES OF WHICH HE CUTS FOR 1W . I S OF THE 20 ACRES 3*0W
Itf QAXS WILL BE PUT INTO MILLET THIS SUMMHl FOE LATB SUMMER GRAZING, THE START OF A BALANCED
FARM AND HOME PROGRAM ON MIS PAKM SHOWED WILS0JT BULLOCK Tlfli NEED FOR MORE HAY CROPS, IT ALSO
3&S SHOW HSf THAT HE ISWDS ABBITI0K4L F E S ) P 0 8 iflKTERING HIS CATTLE, SO THIS YEAR EE PLASS TO -OBSTRUCT A TRMCH SILO AND WILL PUT OUT 5 ACIBS EF SURGHUM WITH WHICH TO FILL THE TRSTCH, f I L S O F BULLOCK STILL DOES C0MSIDM4BLS ROW
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ABOUT 10 IHCHBS HIGH, AND WHICH USUALLY AVBRAGI ABOUT 45 MJSHM.S TO THE ACRE, LIVESTOCK TAKi
GRAIH, AID BESIDBS HIS CATTB , WILSOK MJLLOCK
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ALSO RAISES ABOUT 8 HMD OP HOGS P 0 1 HOME USB F(K S A L ! OF THE SURPLUS. ONE WAT IH WHICH
HE MARKETS HIS HOGS I S THROUGH HOMEMADE SAUSAGE ffilCH HE MAKES EACH YEAR FOR FAMILY USE AID FOR SALE. THE BALANCED FARM AM HOME PROGRAM PLAI
ORKBD OUT FOS WILSOH BU1XOCK�S FARM SH0W1D HIM
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T HE NEEDED MORE PASTURE* SO OHE OF HIS PLAHS I S TO CLEAR ABOUT 40 ACRES OF ROUGH TIMBER GR�f A I D PUT I T IKTO IMPROVED PASTURE,
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HE BREAKS THfi GROUND WIH
TRACTOIAN3) A TENSANT SHARECROFS THE COTTON AND COKN USING MULES, HE HAS A GOOD STAND JSD
:S KMEPING A CLOSE WATCH OVER I T FOR INSECT INFESTATION, HERE WE SBB -HIM AND ASSOCIATE HE
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FIND HUGH THRIP MMAGE BUT DID FIND S 0 M BOLL WEEVILS AND DECIDED IT WAS IMS FOH AN INSECTICIDE APPLIfifiTION, WILSON
3ULLOCK FOLLOWS A COMPLETE INSECT CONTROL PROGRAM ON HIS COTTON. TO THE ACRE, HE AVERAGES ABOUT A BALI
HE T1IES TO GET HIS LAND INTO
I T I S BEST SUITES FOR AID PUTS HIS ROW CSOI ON THS P U T IAND AND HIS RkSTURE AND SMALL GRAINS AND HAY ON B i � HILLSIDES. I MIGHT ALSO
J5AY ALL THE LAND I S FSfCED AND CROSS WWQffl) AND LSON BULLOCK TREATS HIS O N FBSCE POSTS WHICH W E CUTS OFF HIS O N LAND. W SLIDE THE FOOD PROGKiSH FOR
WILSON BULLOCK FAMILY I S SQUALLY AS �08TANT AS ANY OF ME 1EST OF THE PROGRAM. HAYE A ONE ACRE YEAR ROUND GARDEN AND )UCE IIACTICALLY ALL THE FOOD THEY HESB FOR SALB ON HIE MARKET. VIM
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MUCH OF THE FOOD FROM THE GARDEN AID MEAT FROM
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THE FARM GOES INTO THIS FOOD FREEZES.
MRS.
BULLOCK FREEZES ABOUT 2$QQ POUNDS OP POOD PER , INCLUDING THREE-BEEVES, 5 HOGS AID 2S DHICKENS. SD ITS Am SHE ALSO CANS HOST OF EM JELLIES,
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IQDERN KITCHE� SHOWBfG SOME OF HER JELLIES ASSOCIATE HOME AGMT, JANE REESE.
SHE AH MISS
REESE, AS A PART OF THE BAXAHCED F A M A�D HOME PROGRAM AIE fOUING 0 1 A FOOD PRODUCTION AND U T I L I Z A T I O N PROGRAM, ALTHOUGH IT HAS ALWAYS B U GOOD PROGRAM AND DOESN'T REQUIRE MUCH
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MRS, BULLOCK KEEPS ABOUT 3 6 LAYING HUNS ICH PROVIDE EGGS FOR THE FAMILY*S flEDS AND 0 EGGS W MM TO H&RKET EACH WEM, THEY
LSO RAISE ABOUT A QUARTER ACRE OF SUGAR CANE I S MAKE SYRUP FOR HOME USE AND F 0 1 SALE TO U P H J H E N T THE FAMILY INCOME* MRS, BULLOCK
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'�JKES TO $W AND HAS ALWAYS MADE ittKY OF HER CHILDREN'S CLONES* NOW DAUGHTER, GEORGIA S1E S TAKING UP SWING AS ONE OF HER 4-H CLUB OJECTS AND PROMISES TO BB A GREAT DEAL OF TO HER MOTHER IN THIS PART OF THE HOMEMARH rRAM,
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AS I MENTIONED A FEW MINUTES AGO, B U Y HUE BULLOCK FAMILY SIFRTED OUT ON A BALANCED 7ARM AND HOME PROGRAM LAST AUGUST, NUTT PLANNII
OHFHRMCES SIMILAR TO THIS ONE WERE HELD SETWEEN M AND MRS, BULLOCK AND ASSOCIATE H0M6 AGENT JANE REFISE AND ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGEUT SAM DYAR, IN WORKING OUT THEIR P U N S THEY
"}FICIDED THE FIRST AND FOR^FOST NEED WAS FOR A HEWH HOME FOR THE BULLOCK FAMILY. SUDfi FABI��22 OLD HOUSE AFT1R ALL,
' K E Y HAD LIVED IN THIS OLD HOUSE FROM THE TIMS HEY HAD MOVED 1 0 THIS FARM BACK IN 1 9 4 6 . *HBN ELECTRICITY CAME ALONG IN 1 9 4 8 THEY WFIRE ABLE TO HAVE LIGHTS AND RUNNING WATER, BUT STILI I B S HOUSE UCKBD THE WELL HANH1D, STFIP SAVING | N D TIME AND UBOR SAVING CONVENIENCES THE AMILY NEEDED TO HAVE A GOOD HOME L I F E , ND MRS, BULLOCK AND THEIR ASSOCIATE GENTS SAT DOOT WITH MR, KERKIT RAY, SFBCZALISF OM M I S S I S S I P P I STATE COLLEGE AND PLANNED THE
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ODE1N F A R ! HOME I F WHICH THEY LIVE TODAY, WHILE THEY WERE BUILDING THIS NEW HOME MR, ND MRS, BULLOCK AND THEIR CHILDREN COOKED IN H I SMOKE HOUSE AND SLEPT AT MR. BULLOCK'S
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FATHER'S HOUSE.
THE TIMBER THAT WENT IITO THIS
HOME WAS CUT FROM THEIR O N LAND AND WILSON W BULLOCK DID MUCH OF THE WORK IN BUILDING THE HQUSg, .MRS. BULLOCK AID MISS REESE PLAINED 'OF COURtE'USB
THE COLOR-SCHEME FOR THE HOUSE,
OUSE I S N ' T COMPLETELY FINISHED U S IDE YET, BUT OSKI1G IS CONTINUING, THEIR IEXT BIG PROJECT
I S TO BEAUflPUY TKHR YARD WITH THE RIGHT KXM OF L&NDSCAPIIG. THEY HAVE THREE OTHER PRIMARY FURNISH THEIR HOME, BUILD
rOALS, TO FINISH AM
A LOAFING BARN FOR THEIR CATTLE AID EDUCATE IHEIR CHILDREN. WITH THE KIND OF DETERMINATION
IHEY HAVE AND XHBXR WILLINGNESS TO WOKK HARD AT ffiE JOB I AM CONFIDENT THEY WILL REALIZE ALL DREAMS, WHEN THEY ADDED TO THEIR LANS
CN 1 9 S 1 THEY BID IT UNDER A 20 YEAR GI LOUT* ODAY IT I S PAID FOR AND THEY HAT1 CLMR TITLE 0 ALL THEIR LAND. THAT'S THE KIND OF WORK AND NOW I WANT TO SHOW
>1TEKMINATI0N I SPEAK OF.
OU ONE MORI PICTURE, BECAUSE THIS VERY IMPORTS
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OF THE FAMILY I S N ' T WITH US TODAY.
SIRS* BULLOCIC JUST FH,T SHE WAS A LITTLE YOUNG f t HAVE ON THE PROGRAM. THIS IS BEBORAM ANN,
MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF 11R AND MRS. WILSON j
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BULLOCK, A103 BELIEVE ME SHB f S A RIAL CHARMER.
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MR, AID MRS. BULLOCK AID THEIR FAMILY BELONG CAMERA OH FAMILY TO THE SALEM BAPTIST CHUKCH Iff WALIHALL COWfY. MRS, BULLOCK I S HOT AS ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AS SHE QHCE WAS BECAUSE HES FAMILY AM) HER HOME TAKES ALL HER TIME. THEIR
H I I D E M I R E GEORGIA RES AGE 1 3 j DOUGLAS, AGE 9$ TONY, AGS 4 AM) BBBBY. WILSOK BULLOCK I S A
MBER OP THE HALTHALL COUNTY MIRY ASSOCIATIOIT AND mm .HE I S S ' T BUSY OH THIS FARM HE AW H8S,
BULLOCK LIKE TO FISH FROM THEIR ACFE MB A HALF FARM POHD. THEIR MLAJTCED FARM AFS HOME PROGRAI
WILL BE COMPLETED BT I 9 6 0 AID BELIEVE ME I T ' S k REAL ACCOJIPLISHMESTT TH1Y ARE MKim DOIJfG ARE COBTRIBUTHTG f 0 A BETTER AHD 12* SO
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