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WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM VEJ GRATEFUL TO WALTHALL COUNTY AGENT, ANSEL ESTESS HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT JANE REESE FCR THEIS IY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WIIIC i SALUTE TODAY AND IN GOING WITH ME TO THEIR FARM AND HOME TO OBTAIN THE STORY I A ABOUT TO M TELL. THIS I S THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS. B . B .
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HOLMES WHO LIVE IN LEXIE, THREfi MIIES SOUTH <F TYLERTGWN, M I S S I S S I P P I . B . B . HOLMES BUILT THE
FjCRST TWO ROOMS OF THIS HOUSE BEFORE HE MRRIED BACK IN 1 9 0 8 . MR. HOLMES GREW UP IN LEXIE WHERE MRS. HOLMES
H I S FATHER RUN A STORE AND FARMED.
GREW UP ABOUT FOUR MILES AWAY BETWEEN LEXIE AND WALKER'S BRIDGE. I M, HOLMES WAS ONE OF 12
CHILDREN AND MRS. HOLMES WAS ONE OF 11 CHILDREN. HAVE RAISED FIVE CHILDREN OF TIIEIR OWN. PH MR. AND MRS, HOLMES GRADUATED FROM TYLERTOWN. SLIDE FARM-2 HOUSE AT THE TIME THEIR WERE ONLY 10 GRADES AT THE TIME THEY WERE
THE SYLERTOWN SCHOOL.
LRRIED MR. HOLMES WAS WORKING FOR HIS FATHER IN THE STORE AND HAD BEEN FOR 4 YEARS. WHEN MR.
MRS. B . B . HOLMES WERE BARRIED MR. HOLMES FATHER GAVE HIM A COW AND A HORSE M D MRS.
II 1LMES FATHER GAVE HER A COW, AND WITH THESE
W)RLDLY GOODS THEY SET UP FARMING.
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FROM THAT BEGINNING B . B . HOOffiS HAS BUILT HIS LIVESTOCK PROGRAM GRADUALLY OVER THE YEARS UNTIL TODAY HE HAS %2$ HEAD OF CATTLE...100 OF THEM I ROOD COWS. IT WAS IN 1936 THAT B . B . HOLMES BY
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IlSALLY GOT START� INTO THE CATTLE BUSINESS. 1 9 4 6 HE HAD ALMOST QUIT ROJf CROPPING. IN THE
I1ARLY DAYS MB ROf CROPPED COTTON AND CORN WITH IKJLES AND TBNMNT LABOR, HAVING STARTED WITH ONE ONE TENNANT, WORKING AS MM iff ONE TIME B . B . HOLMSS TODAY MS. AND THEIR
AS 18 MULES.
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. B?B. HOLMES OIOT 4 5 0 AC1ES OF LAND,
F^IIST PURCHASE OF LAND WAS 80 ACRES MICH THEY BOUGHT FCR $900 AND BY FARMING AND WORKING FOR ANOTHER $20 A MONTH THEY PAID FOR THE FARM AND I i U I L T f THEIR FIVE ROOM HOUSEIM FIVE YEARS. BY TH1 j t A Y f THE HOUSE COST THEM $ 8 0 0 . i B . B . HOLMES FOLL(
COMERCIAL COW AND CALF PROGRAM AND JSRKETS HIS
H I S CALVES AS MILK FAT CALVES OFF THE C0�.
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CATTLE GET V1KY LITTLE GRAIN EXCEPT FOR THE CALVJ IFHICH HE CREEP FEEDS SOME OP THEYEAR. MOST OF H HE
TIME THE CATTLE GET ONLY PASTURE AND HAY.
CULLS HSS HERD CLOSE AND CALFHOOD YACCINATES. (GRAZING I S PEO�IDED BY 100 ACRES OF BAHAIA GRASS, TOITE DUTCH CLOVER, BERMUDA, DALLIS G1ASS km ALL HIS dRIMSON CLOVER. B . B . HOLMES
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PASTURES AND CLIPS MM
REGULARLY FOR WESD CONTRI
TEMPORARY GRAZING I S SUPPLIED BY 75 ACRES OF QATS OF WHICH 30 ACRES I S GRAZED TILL MRCH THEN JITRATED AND LAfER EUT FCE HAY AND SOME I S COMBINED FOS SEED, THE STUBBLE IS THEM PLOWED THE
UNDER AND CLOVER I S PUT IN FOR A HAY CROP.
OTHER 45 ACRES OF OATS I S COMPLETELY GRAZED DOWN. 5 0 OF THE 75 ACRES I S SOD SEEDED INTO PERMANENT i PASTURE LAND. B . B . HOLMES PUTS OUT 25 ACRES HE S M S HE HAS NEVER BOUGHT HE SAYS HIS
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OF CORN FOR FEED.
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$ 1 0 0 WORTH OF GRAIN I N HIS L I F E .
FATHER TAUGHT HIM EARLY TO FEED XK GSAIN ACCORDII TO WHAT THEY HAD. WITHOUT, MM THEY DON'T HAVE THEY DO
DUE TO A LABOR SHORTAGE AID ACREAGE
SEDUCTION B . B . HOLMES QUIT RAISING COTTON IN 1IT50 AND IN THAT YEAR HE ALSO STARTED SERIOUSLY
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1 0 PROTICT AND ENCOURAGE THE GROWTH OF HIS TIMBEI WHEN B . B . HOLMES BOUGHT HIS LAND I T WAS IN ROUGS SKAMP HARDWOOD, MUCH LUCE THIS WE SEE HERE. IN FACT HE RECALLS THAT HE DIDN�T HAVE 1 5 ACRES F OPEN LAND. BY USING AN AXE AND A SAW B . B . HOLMES
^ND HIS BOYS HAVE CLEARED MUCH OF I T AND MADE THE REST PRODUCTIVE PINE TIMBER. PARMSEEDLING AT THE TIME
H|E STARTED CLEARING THE WASTE TIMBER HE DOUBTED THEIR WAS ENOUGH PINE TO GET A START.
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ALL HE COULD SEE WAS A FEW SEED TREES.
HE EVEN
CALLED I N A FORESTER WHO POINTED OUT MANY LITTLE SEEDLINGS LIKE THIS ONE I N FRONT OF OUR HAND KI3?CHIEF, HE TOLD B . B . HOLMES THEIR WAS PLENTY SO MR. OI1 PINE I F HE'D JUST GIVE I T A CHANCE,
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HOLMES AND THE BOYS WENT TO WORK AND BEGAN TO DEADEN HARDWOODS AND CUT OUT UNDERGROWTH, PLOW FW LANES A I D PROTECT WHAT WAS THEIR, HE BEGAN
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& I COMPLETE PROGRAM OF RELEASE WOHK TO GIVE THESE YfUNG PINE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWffi AND TODAY* JUST FIVE YEARS LATER IN THIS PARTICULAR TRACT SLIDE FARM-< OF TIMBER, THEIR ARE THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PINE L I K E THESE TAKING NEW LIFE AROUND STUMPS OF OLD ^�REES CUT DOWN OR RBTTED AWAY DUE TO GI1DLING., B,JB. HOLMES RECALLS TEAT HIS FIRST INTEREST IN
TIMBER STARTS) BACK IN THE 1930*S WEES HE COULBN�
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AIFORD TO TURN HIS DAIRY CATTLE INTO OPEN LAND KSCAUSE HE WAS CULTIVATING IT SO HE WENT BACK IN T I E SWAMP AND CLEARED SOME LAND FOR GRAZING. Ri CALLS THAT THE FIRST THING HE KNEW IT WAS COVERED WIKI YOUNG PINE SO HE STARTED PROTECTING HE
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IN 1955 B . B . HOLMES ADDED ANOTHER PHASE BESIDES PROTECTING WHAT
TO HIS TIMBER PROGRAM.
WJ.S ON THE LAND HE BEGAN TO PLANT SEEDLINGS TO BRING NEW LAND INTO TIMBER PRODUCTION.. YOU SEE
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HOLMES IS N W 74 TEARS YOUNG AND WHILE HE'S O
S T I L L AS SPRY AS THE AVERAGE HAN OF 50 HE CAN SEE
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HE*LL BE UNABLE TO TEND
ESTOCK AND DEVELOP PASTURES SO EVERY YEAR HE T A U N T A LITTLE OF H I S M STORE LAND AND FUTTI2K
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BACK INTO PINE SEEDLINGS AND REDUCING H I S [VESTOCK PROGRAM ACCORDINGLY. H I HOPES
EVENTUALLY TO BE OUT OF THE CATTLE BUSINESS AID JLFST RAISE TIMBER ON H I S LAND,
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US| AN IDEA OF MM PRACTICAL TIMBER REALLY I S M.
HOLMES POINTS OUT TO COUNTY AGENT ANSEL ESTBSS THAT THE YOU1G TREB IS THREE YEARS OLD AND THE TALL TREES IN THE BACKGROUND ARE TEN YEARS OLD. P I N E TIMBER....TRULY A FAST GROWING CROP. B . B . SLIDE FARM - 13 MAN & BOY BODIES DOSSN�T WORK JUST FOR HIMSELF...IN FACT F i R FROM I T . OVER THE YEARS HE HAS HELP� MANY
FOLKS IN HANY WAYS. HIS FAMILY GAVE THE LAND FOR GAVE THE TI E LEXIE SCHOOL. HE AHD MRS. IA ND FOR THEIR CHURCH. BISSID1S THEIR O N F I V E . W THEY RAISED TWO CHILDREN THIS PICTURE TELLS OF
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THEf R GENEROSITY AND THEIR FOR THEIR FELLQWMA.N. THIS I S THE VOCATIONAL
AGRICULTURE TEACHER HAROID HARRIS AND FFA BOY WiLTON FORBES AND A PART OF THE TEN ACRE TIMBER T l U c T WHICH MR. HOLMES GAVE TO THE LEXIE FFA
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(HAPTBR.
BY THE WAY, WALTON LIVES ON THE HOLMES
FARM AND HELPS MR. HOLMES WITH ODD JOBS AROUND � THE FARM. SLIDE FARM-3 MK. AND MRS. B . B , HOLMES LIVE AT ONE VERY
HOME OFF THE PRODUCE OF THEIR LAND,
]MPORTANT PART OF THEIR PROGRffi I S TBBIR FOOD PRESERVATION PR & RAM, MRS. HOLMES HAS A HAUP SHE HAS
ACRE GARDEN, I T ' S A YEAR ROUND GARDEN M SLIDE FARM*lj Aj SMALL ORCHARD.
FROM THEM SHE FREEZES ABOUT
0 POUNDS OF FOOD EACH YEAR A�D CANS ANOTHER P I N T S AID 20 QUARTS IN JARS. MIS. HOLMES LIKES TO COOK IN HER MODERN KITCHEN. SHE ALSO LOVES T( AND ALSO COVERS
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SEW AND MAKES MOST OF HER DRAPES SOME OF HER CHAIRS,
SHE WORKS VERY CLOSE WITH
HOME DEMONSTRATION JC ENT, JANE REESE, SHOWN HERE WITH HER. SLIDE FARM-17 TAKJD MRS. HOLMES LIKES TO WORK OUTSIDE IN IN HER HOME, HER YARI
1 YARD FULLY AS MUCH AS I S ONE OF REAL B3AUTY.
MRS. HOLMES HAS, OVER
S YEARS PROPOGATED NEARLY EVERYTHING SHE HAS I I R YARD. MR. AND MRS. B . B . HOLMES ARE MEMBERS
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THE LEXI1 BAPTIST CHURCH AWD ARE CHARTER
MEMBERS. FOR MNY YEARS MR, HOLMES TAUGHT i SUNDAY SCHOOL. HE WAS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE bjNDAY SCHOOL FOR FIVE YEARS AND I S A DEACON IN H I S CHURCH. MRS. HOLMES TEACHES A IADIES CLASS,
PRESIDENT OF THE W.M.S. AND VERY AC T I M IN THI
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A C T I V I T I E S OF HER CHURCH, CAIERA 03T FAMILT
MRS, HOLMES I S ALSO
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE LEXIE HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB AND HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF IT SISCS I T WAS FJOUHEO, IUf*ft, SUE m � MR. HQLMSS ARE MEMBERS OF THE MR. B . B , HOLMSS I S CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNT?
SpHOOL BOARD, MEMBER OF XHg B0A8D OF THE COUMTY L I V ^ T O C K ASSOCIATION M B FAHif BURMU. HE I S A
MEMBER OF HIE INDUSTRY COffilTTBE OF fHB TYLSBTtJRV CtlAlBER OF CmmCU* EE WAS A MEMBER OF THB
SCHOOL BOARD WHWf THE SCHOOL WAS BUILT IIT MB 20 Y m E S , SEHYS0 OF HIE BOARD AT IEXIE SCHOOL FOR THERE'S MUCH M08E TO TELL ABOUT THIS
PjOTE MALTHALL COUNTY FAMILY BUT I WANT YOU TO
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WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE HARBEST TIMES YOU HAVE HAD OYEK TUB YEARS? (DEGRESSION) (
LOST STOSB, MOKTGAGED FARM. �WHY?) I N ADDITION TO EVERYTHING ELSE HAVEN*T YOU BESET A M I L CARRIER? HOW MJCH LAND HAVE YOU CLEARED. ...HOW? 4. 5,j 6J WHY I S TIMBER SO IMPORTANT TO YOU? WHAT BIASES FINS GROW FAST? WHAT I S YOUR PHILOSOPHY ABOUT 1J3SPONSIBILITIE! OF CHILDREN? 7J HOW DID YOUR FATHER FEEL?
YOU ABOUT TO COMPLETE CYCEL..TIMBER TO
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MJCH YOUNG P I I E HAVE YOU SET OUT? 9 10j. ARE CHILDRM BOIUS? US ABOUT OTHER CHILDREN YOU R A I S E D . . � , ARE MET H 0 � . . � , AJTY IDEA ABOUT 1HERE THIS JiATION I S UMDED? OE WHAT IEE0S TO BE DONS? 2. HOW DO YOU PESL ABOUT SCHOOL COISOLIMTIOF?
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