W FOR BY_ LBT CONTINUITY Farm Fa a l l y nf t h e DATEFTJ. Dsc. lit 19 !& VIDEO AUDIO CAMERA OH LANGFITT WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BBGINIING THAT I AM Y GRATEFUL TO JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY AGENT, ? 0 . SWORDS, ASSOCIATE AGENT DAVID STANFORD AND SSOCIATE HOME DEMONSTRATION AGMT, MRS. GEORGIA , FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SELECTIJ E FAMILY Ñ 1 ARE ABOUT TO SALUTE AND IN GOING WITH ME TO THE FARM TO OBTAIN THE STORY I SLIDE FABH-1 HOUSE I S I S THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS. MARVIN CGURTNF B A S S F I E L D , M I S S I S S I P P I , IN JEFFUKSON DAYIS BOUNTY. MR. AND MRS. MARVIN COUtTNEY BOTH GREW JP ON A FARM WITHIN A FEff MILES OF THEIR PRESENT HOME. MARVIN GRIJf UP WITHIN A MILE AND MRS. COURTNEY GREW UP IN THE GOOD HOPE COMMUNITY ABOU! TEN MILES AWAY. [N BASSFIELD, THEY ATTENDED SCHOOL TOGETHER MRS, COURTNEY WAS ONE OF 1 3 CHILDREN AND MARVIN HAS ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. p B Y WERE MARRIED 3 1 YEARS AGO AND STARTED RIGHT JUT FARMING ON 40 ACRES WHICH MA1VIN*S FATHES GAVE HIM. THEY LIVED ON MARVIN'S OLD HOME PIACE JNTIL LAST APRIL WHEN THEY MOVED TO THEIR NEff HOME. THE MOVE M S MADE BECAUSE MRS. COURTNEY NEEDED MORE ROOM IN HER HOUSE AND BECAUSE JIARVIN NEiSDED MORE PASTURE AND THEY WAITED TO I N A LOCATION MORE CONVENIENT TO TOWN. THIS F I N E BIME WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLD TSNHANT HOUSE I ? ? ?? ? l - ' "".-?'. -v. ?'-'""?"" ''-'':... '.; "" W FOR. BY__ LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO M I C H THEY COMPLETELY SB-BUILT IHfO THIS COMPLETELY MODERN HOME YOU SEE TODAY, WHEN , SLIDE FARM-2 W COURTNEY START? FARMING FOR HIMSELF 3 1 YEARS AGO HE HAD A COW AND A MULE AID RAISED AND COTTON. TODAY HE I S COMPLETELY AND P ½ THE m sr 12 YEARS HE HAS BEEI l&RVIN COURTNEY GREIf ABOUT NINE YEARS AGC SLIDE FJ [N THE CATTLE BUSINESS. ENTO THE CATTLE BUSINESS, MARVIN COURTNEY STARTED ffiJH?& AND SELLING A JW CATTLE AS HE COULD FIND THEM. HE DID THIS ?0R ABOUT F I Ñ E YEARS AND DURING THE TIME HE T SAVING THE BEST HEIFERS AND ADDING THEM TO SLI3E FAR1M SETTLE S GROWING HERD, TODAY HE HAS 100 HEAD OF ABOUT , ABOUT 75 OF THBf BROOD COWS, ?miR YEARS AGO MARVIN COURTNEY DECIDED I F HE CAS GOING TO STAY IN THE CATTLE BUSINESS HE SLIDE FARM, IEJSDJSD TO DO SOME HERD IMPROVEMENT WORK SO H i HE TARTED ADDING SOME REGISTERED STOCK. TTENDED DISPERSION SALES AND BOUGHT REGISTERED M E N HE COULD FIND BARGAINS, HE F0LL01 COMMERCIAL COW AND CALF PROGRAM AND SILLS MOST SLIDE FARM.6 TTOW & CALF H I S CALVES AS MILK FAT CALVES RIGHT OFF THE HOWEVER, HE DOES FEED OUT ABOUT 2? HEAD )F LATE CALVES ON HOME GROWN GRAIN. ALL CATTLE Hi JET SOME GRAIN DURING TUB WINTER MONTHS. W FOR_ BY__ LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO C R E E P FEEDS ALL H I S CALVBS AND CALFHOOD JTACCIHATES. H I S HERD I S BANGS AND TB TESTED. <TAL?ES OH FEED GET CRUSHED CORN AND ALL CATTLE GET HAY F?EE CHOICE DURING THE WINTER MONTHS, SLIDE FARH?7 OR H I E PAST TEN YEARS MARVIN COURTNEY HAS BEEN BREEDING H I S CATTLE TO REGISTERED BULLS. HE S STILL DEBATING WHETHER TO GO TO A COMPLETELY J3GISTERED HERD AND WILL NOT HAKE A FINAL E G I S I O N ON I T UNTIL HE SEES A FEW MORE YEARS P PRODUCTION RESULTS FROM HIS PRESENT PROGRAM. O THE VERY BEGINNING MARVIN COURTNEY HAS M SLIDE FARH-8 CALVES SAVING HIS BEST HEIFERS FOR HERD REPLACEMENT BBLIEFE MB HE HAS SOME FINE ONES IN THE HERD TODAY. 1IGHT NOW THERE ARE 2% HEAD W BY THE WAY, i ItSGISTIRED CATTLE IN THE HERD. IEARVXN COURTNEY GOT SOME OF HIS REGISTERED SLIDE CALVES FAgg?9 M O C K THROUGH ONE OF THE BOYS1 FFA PROJECTS. HE CULLS HIS HERD CLOSE AND GETS ABOUT AN $5% CROP. PERMANENT GRAZING CONSISTS OF 100 j OF MERMUDA, BAHAI, CRIMSON CLOVES, COMMON PJ3DEZA, CASPET AND DALLIS GRASS. HE ROTATES I S GRAZING AID CARRIES ABOUT A COW AND A HALF T< 0 THE ACRE. HE NITRATES AND LUCES HIS PASTURES D CLIPS THEM REGULARLY FOR WEED CONTROL. SLIDE PARlSylfl 'EMPOHARY GRAZING CONSISTS OF ABOUT 40 ACRES OF W FOR_ BY_ LBT CONTINU ITY DATE_ TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO TS WHICH ARE GRAZEO UKTIL mRCH AND THEN TEN CR?S ARE COMBINED AID THE REST ARE COT IN TIE GH STAGE FOR HAY. MARVIN COURTNEY PUTS UP BOUT 1500 BALES OP HAY EACH YMR AND IN ADDITIOl 0 OATS H I PUTS UP ALICE CLOVSR FOR HAY. TffO m Y I N ' S BOYS ARE STILL WORKING WITH THEIR DAD AS OMS ON THEIR- 4 0 0 ACRES OF FARM LAND AID ALL O R I I S MM WITH mCHIMffiY^ MARVIN COURTNEY ND HIS BOYS TRY TO GST EWRY ACRE INTO THE ROP FOR WHICH IT I S BEST SUITED* THET TEST , I R SOIL AID FERTILIZE ACCORDING TO SOIL NEEDS, SLIDE CORN FIJSLD RVIN COURTNEY STILL PRODUCES CORN TO FES) HIS TILE, HE PUTS OUT ABOUT 50 ACRES OF CORN AND m FEEDS | T MKm ABOUT 40 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE* ALL OF HIS COIN. H « B WE SEE.MR. COURTNEY.AND SSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT STANFORD INSPECTING THIS ? S CORN CROP. SLIDE FARM-12 HARVIN COURTNEY STILL RAISES THIS YEAR HE HAD 4 1 ACRES. IT OMB COTTON TOO. SUALLY M&KES ABOUT A BALE TO THE ACRE BUT THIS THE wmmMAim THE IMSECTS COMBIIED CUT IT 0 HALF A BALE. BY THE MAY HE KEEPS THIS FLOCK EESE FOR %Em CONTROL I N THE COTTON FIELDS. ONLY ADDITIONAL LABOR HIRED ON THE FARM I S COTTON PICKING Am CHOPPING. MR. AN1),MRS, VIN COURTNEY ENROLLED IN THE BAIANOED FARM AST W FOR_ BY LBT CONTINUITY DATE. TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO PROGRAM I N 1 9 5 5 . HRS* TRAMEL, THE ASSOCIATE 05K1 AGENT AND MR, STANFORD, TOE ASSOCIATE COUNTY A R E QUICK TO POINT OUT THAT THE COURTNEY1S ON A GOOD PROGRAM WHSN THEY EN1OLIED AND T H E I R PRIMARY GOALS WERE A NEW HOUSE ANB 5STOCK IMPROVEMENT, THE HOUSE I S COMPETED ; T H E LIVESTOCK PROGRAM I S ALREADY GRSATLY SLIDE FAJBM3 GARDEN ROVED, FOOD I S EVERY B I T AS IMPORTANT TO THE F A M I L Y AS I S THE LIVESTOCK AND CROP fROGRAM, THEY HAVE ABOUT A HALF ACRE OF GARDEN S P A C E AID AH OTHER HALF ACRE OF TRUCK PATCHES FREEZES FROM WHICH MRS. COURTNEY SXXX ABOUT 2 f 0 0 0 POUNDS OF F R U I T , VEGETABLES AND MSAf. THEY PUT ABOUT SLIDE 7 0 0 POUNDS OF PORK IN THE FREEZER EACH YEAR. SLIDE I R S . COURTNEY CANS I N OARS ANOTHER 2 0 0 QUARTS OF P I C I L E S , TOMATOES, PEACHES AND SO FORTH. COURTNEY HAS A Ñ EXCELLENT FOOD PRESERVATION PROGRAM AND I S ABLE TO PUT UP MOST OF THE FOOD i r i E FAMILY NEEDS DURING A YEAR, OUTSIDE OF THE S T A P L E S OF COURSE. ISIS* COURTNEY HAS A COMPLETE! IB«. SLIDE MODERN KITCHEN* I N FACT HER WHOLE HOUSE I S ONE OF THE THINGS THE FAMILY THEY D I D N ' T KIICH COMPLETELY MODERN. MOST I S THEIR NEW BATHROOM. VE ONE I N THE OTHER HOUSE. MRS. COURTNEY HAD VERY BEAUTIFUL YARD AT TH1 HOI« FROH WHICH THEY W FORBY__ VIDEO LBT CONTINUITY TIME- AUDIO ifOYED AID ONE OF H M FIRST PROJECT AT HSJ HER HOME If ILL BE TO COMPLETELY LAHBSCAP5 H S U S D , F A C T , MR. HBHRY J . SMITH, BXTBISIOM H I T C U L T H R I S T FROM STATE COLLEGE I S DRAWING A S L I D E _ FAJ LASDSCAPE PLAN FOR THEM AÑD THE* WILL GgT OK I T DT THE S P S I I G , MRS. COURTNEY ifOHKS YffiY CLOSELY WITH ASSOCIATE HOME AGBOT. 3ffiS, GEOHGIA THAMEL IK CARRYIKG OUT HEH HOME PROBRAH AM I CAN WELL JMAQISE THIS HAS B S M SEPMTSB MHY TIXBS OYM SINCB 1IR, ikSD iff'S. MRVI3T COURTHEY EITlOLLa) IM THE FARM AID HOME PEOGHAM. M S AID MIS. AHE IOT OHLY BUIIDISG A SMM) FARM CAMERA OS FAMILY BOT THBY AH1 ALSO HA1B WCRKIUS DT TfllSIE OOHMJIITY HJELPIHG THEIH NEIGHBORS TO HUBS I T A nmnm PLAGB I N WHCIH TO LIVE Am BAISE A FAMiLfi ? H E COURTHUr FAMILY ARE M^IBBRS OF AHD ACTIÑB H S B BASSFISWD BAPTIST CHURCH WWB WBS? COURfHIY 'MCHSS IN THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT OF TM1 SUNMY CHOOL AID 1 R . COURTHEY I S A ?EACOH* THEY ARB FAM BUREAU HMBSSS A H MR, COUSTFBY MS AT TIME A SOIL COHSBRYATIOH DISTRICT COBffilSflOSJ Am I S FOÑ A MEMB^ OF THE C I T I Z Q P S COUNCIL. S . COURTSEY DETOTES MOST OF UM TIME TO HER AMD HER FAMILY?,?Sfi LOVES TO COOK AND W FOR, BY- LBT CONTINUITY DATE. TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO TO GROW BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, Mm ALL THE BOYS HAVE ACTIVE IN 4~H CLUB WORK ANB FFA WORK AND HAVE PARTICIAPTED IN THE JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY LIVESTOCK JUDGING AND DEMONSTRATION WORK. , LET'S MEET THIS FINE FAMILY AFD LIT THEM TELL US MORE OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS* 1. ?1 WHAT HAS BEM THE BEST THING YOU HAVE ON THE FARM? DO YOU GROW ANY THffiES? DO YOU DO ANY TIMBER IMPROVEMMT WORK? mm HOW DO YOU SUPPLY WATER FOR YOUR LIVESTOCK? 3? DO YOU PLAN TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR HER f? ANY? WHAT ARE THE CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT H0HE DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY GRANDCHILDREN? WHAT HAS BEEN THE BIST THING IN YOUR HOME MAKING PROGRAM? WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? ASK BOYS ABOUT THEIR PLANS. i
