W L CONTINUITY DATF TIME %rcb 25, 1955 VIDEO AUDIO CAMERA ON LANGFITT WELL, HERE I f IS FRIDAYt AND TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR OUR SALUTE TO A FARM FAMILY DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB OF FARMING IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND MAKING A REAL CONTRIBUTION TO AGRICULTURE IN MISSISSIPPI. TODAY'S STORY WAS SELECTED WITH THE HELP OF THE M DISON COUNTY AGRICULTURE!/ AGENT'S STAFF UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF COUNTY [AGENT SAM EST1SS. SLIDE . FARH-1 HOUSE THIS I S THE STORY MR. AID MR, AND MRS. CLIFTOI HOBSON A M THEIR FAMILY. MRS. HOBSON FARM ABOUT 1 8 7 ACRES, 5 HILtiS SOUTH A I D EAST OP CANTON, M I S S I S S I P P I , YOU WILL SEE A GREAT AMOUNT OF WATER IN OUR PICTURES TODAY. BECAUSE I WQ?T TO THE HOBSON FARM LAST MONDAY AFTERNOON WM WE HAD STORMS IN THIS AREA, AM) THE PICTURE WE MADE WERE TAKEN IN THE RAIN W R I N G THE STORM. IN A WAY THIS HAS HELPED US TO BETTER TELL THE STORY OF THIS FINE FAMILY. MR, AND M S , CLIFTON HOBSON HATE LIVED IN MADISO] COUNTY FOR 3 5 YEARS, MR. HOBSON WAS RAISED IN NEWTON COUNTY AND MRS, HOBSON WAS RAISED IN YAZOO COUNTY. CLIFTON HOBSON BOUGHT A FARM IN MIDISON COUNTY AND CAJ1B HERE WITM HIS MOTHER AID FATHER AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THE FARM THEY BOUGHT WAS JUST TWO MILES DOWN THE ROAD AND THEY L I T E D ON THAT FARM AND FARMED FROM 1921 U 1936. W LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ BY TIME- VIDEO AUDIO L I K E SO MANY OTHER FARMERS MR. HOBSON LOST TiiAT F I R S T FARM DURING THB DEPRESSION. IN 1936 HE BOUGHT MOTHER 147 ACRES WHICH HE FARMED UNTIL 1 9 4 6 MIEN HE SOLD I T AMD BOUGHT THE PRESENT LAND HE OWNS. SLIDE BREE2EWAY WEREN'T ANY BUILDINGS ON THIS RESENT FARM AND I T WAS IN 1946 THAT M l . AID MIS, HOBSON BEGAN TO BUILD ON THEIR PRESENT SIGHT AID MOVED TO I T . M l . AND MRS-. flOBSON BUILT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOME ALMOST ENTIRELY BY,THEMSELVES. .THEY HIRED THE FRAME CONSTRUCTED AND THE ROOF PUT ON AND DID ALI THE REST OF THE WORK THEMSELVES, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS LARGE BREEZMAY ON THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WHICH SERVES AS FAMILY LIVING QUARTERS IN THE ,, SUMMERTIME. AUGHTER MARY'S LITTLE GIRL. SLIDE FA GARAG. THE YOUNG LADY I S THE HOBSON1S ALSO HOWEVER, HE BOUGHT THIS FARM IN 1939 THERJ WHILE HE CONTINUED TO FARM THE OTHER IAND, BUILT MOST OF THE OfflER BUILDINGS ON THE FARM. THIS GARAGE I S ATTACHED TO THE BREBZEKAY AND ú U R G E 1SNOUGHT TO ACCO1ODATE ALL NEEDED CARS A« TRUCKS. CLIFTON HOBSON I S A CWPLETELY SLIDE HED MECHANIZED FARMER. AID HIS MACHINERY CONSERVATIOI I PROGRAM I S AS FINE AS HIS SOIL AND WATER PROGRAM, ? ALL MACHINERY I S KEPT EITHER IN THIS FINE SHED FHICH ALSO SffiLTERS FEED AND FERTILIZER, OR I T W LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ T!ME_ VIDEO AUDIO I S KEPT IN OTHER SHELTER BUILDIMGS SUCH AS BUS SLIDE FARM* ½ tINúi MACiHINE SHELTER FARM-6 ONE WHERE HE KEEPS ONE OF TWO TRACTORS AND A TRAILER. CLIFTON HOBSON HAS A COMBINE, HAY SLIDE BALERtCORN PICKER, ALL MEBED TRACTOR ATTACHEMBN INCLUDING HAY RAKE AID Mfflfffi, EVERY PIECE, OF EQUIPMENT IS WELL CARED FOR AND PROTECTED FROM THE WEATHER WHEN NOT IN USE, CLIFTON HOBSON BOUGHT HIS FIRST TRACTOR I F 1926 AND HAS FARMED j WITH MACHINERY ETER SINCE. HE USES HIS COMBINE | AND HAY BALER TO DO CUSTOM WORK FOR HIS NEIGHBOR \ THUS ADDING TO HIS FARM INCOlfi, ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL FARM ENTERPRISES 01 THE CLIFTON HOBSON SLIDE FARM* CATT FARM I S CATTLE RAISING. MR, HOBSON HAS GROWN INTO THE CATTIE BUSINESS 0VE3R THE PAST 18 YEARS. TODAY HE HAS 25 HEAD ºF GRABS HEREFORDS AND 10 HEAD OF REGISTERED IIBRBFORDS, COWS ARE A RESULT OP THE TEN REGISTERS 2 REGISTERED HEIFERS THE GIRLS BOUGHT AND CARRIED AS 4-H CLUB PROJEC fS WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGSTERS. SLIDE FARM-8 BULL BY SAVING HIS BEST H E I F E R S AND BREEDING TO A REGISTERED HEREFORD BULL MR. HOBSOU HAS BUILT HIS ENTIRE HERD TO WHAT I WOULD CALL CHOICE TOLITY CATTLE. IS. SLIDE FARM-9 LOAFING SSED | HOBSON BUILT A LOAFING SHED WHERE THE CATTLE CAN | GET IN OUT OF THB WEATHER AND BAT HAY I F THEY i WANT TO, HE FEEDS OUT ABOUT 25 HEAD OF CALVES W FOK_ BY__. L BT CONTINUITY DATE_ TIME_ ViDEO AUDIO TO AROUND 55? POUNDS AND USUALLY GETS A PREMIUM P R I C E ON THE M RKET. THE LOAFING SHE) ALSO SERVES AS A HAY BARN WHME MR. HOBSON PUTS ABOUT 3 5 0 0 BALES OF BEK8RJM, CRAB GRASS AID LESPEDfiZA I SLIDE FARM-10 CALF STALLS HAY EVERY YEAR. INDIVIDUAL STALL! ARE PROVIDED I N ONE FEEDING BARN WHERE CALVES CAN BE ISOLATED FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT. CLIFTON HOBSON FOLLOWS A BALANCED FARMING PROGRAM IN COOPERATION WITH H I S COUNTY AGENT.. OF COURSE, CATTLE REQUIBK SLIDE Off FEED. MICH OF TH? FEED COMES FROM GOOD GRAZING, IMPROVED MR, HOBSON M S 4? ACRES OF PERHAHBfff, PASTURE CONSISTING OF LESPBDE2A, WHITE 'UTCH, DALLIS GRASS AND BERMUDA. ALSO HE CARRHS AND ADDITIONAL 3 5 ACRES OF T9IP0RARY GRAZING WHICH CONSIST OF OATS AND CRIMSON CLOVffi, PROGRAM I S A PROGRAM OF ROTATION. 1BE PASTURE ALL PASTURES ARE DIVIDED INTO 10 TO 20 ACRE PLOTS FOR A GOOD ROTATION PROGRAM ALLOWING FREQUENT CHANGE? THERE I S ANOTHER 25 ACRES OF WOODLAND WHICH I S SLIDE FASMP.12 GRAZED. MR, HOBSOI HAS CLEARED ALL HIS LAND 40 ACRE! OAT FIELD ?? ? ? ? ? ' ? ? . FROM WHAT WAS ONCE SCRUB TIMBER GROWTH, OF THE OATS THAT IS GRAZED I S LATER COMBINED FOR GRAIN. THIS PARTICULAR FIELD WILL BE TURNED UNDJ MR. LAST YEAR UNDER AND PLANTED TO CORN THIS SPRING. HOBSON RAISES ABOUT 25 ACRES OF CORN. W FUR_ LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ T!ME_ VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE FARM-J.3 CORN I HE HARVESTED ABOUT 2 , 0 0 0 OF COM AMD | 2 , 0 0 0 BUSHELS OF OATS WITH EACH AVERAGING ABOUT I 60 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, SLIDE CLIFTON HOBSOI SAVES ' HIS GRAIN AND USES I T FOR FEED FOB MIS LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY, KM HAS M S O N HAMMEHMILL AMD W 1 USSS IT TO G R i m M S FEED RIGHT INTO THE BIN | WHERE HE MIXES IT TO SUIT HIS NEEDS, j GETS GROUND CORN, COTTONSEED MEAL I I j CREEP FED ON TIB HANGE, SLIDE FARW-1J C0TT0N5J EVBBY CJúF OATS WHEN CLIFTON HOBSON STARTED FARMING HE RAISED ONLY COTTON, BUT IN 1 9 2 6 HE CHANGED TO SMALL GRAIN, PLANTED COVER CROPS AND HARVESTED GRASS SEED AND SOLD IT AID I T WAS ALSO THEN HE STARTED INTO THE CATTLE B U S I N E S S . WHILE ONLY 22 ACRES WILL BE PLAITED TO COTTON TillS YMR, CLIFTON IIOBSON l ú FAS MORE PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS COTTON CROP THAN HE WAS BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS WHEN THAT?S ALL HE RAISED, TODAY HE PLANTS BREEDERS COTTON SEED AID SAVES H I S OWN SEED WHICH WE SEE HERE ALL REABf TO GO INTO THE GROUND WHEN THE WEATHER*S RIGHT. HE SLIDE BELIEVES IN TREATING HIS SOIL RIGHT. EVERY ACRE ON THE CLIFTON HOBSON FARM HAS BEWi SOIL TESTED AND I S HANDLED ACCORDING TO ITS NEEDS. ALL EXPERIMENT STATION RECOMMENDATIONS ARE FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER. WU HOBSON ALREADY HAS HIS W LBT CONTINUITY DATE_ BY TIME_ VIDEO AUDIO , F « T I L I Z E R IN THE BAM SO THERE?LL BE 1 0 WAITING IwHEN THE TIME COJES TO USE I T . j EVERY ACRE IN i ROW CROPS I S SUB-SOILED AID HAS BEES FOR THE IAS! TWO YEARS. UP UNTIL THE T I M HIS COTTON ACREAGJ THIS WJ|S DRASTICALLY CUT MR. HOBSON PRE-EM1RGED. YEAR HE PLANSSTO PLAHT CHMICALLY TRMTED SB?) FOR BETTER IISECT CONTROL. S L I D E .FARM-17 FLOOD MOST OF CLIFTON HOBS OH ½S LAND I S BOTTOM LAW) AID DMIIAGE I S HIS GRBiTEST PR0BLM. THE WITHER LAST MONDAY WILL HELP US TO TELL WHAT MR. 10BS0J* HAS DOFE ABOUT IT, THIS I S WHIT USED TO HAPPEN TO CLIFTOH HOBSOJPS LAID EVERYTIHE BE HAD A HEAVY RAIN. NAHROH VZimiNG WTCH1S COULDIPT COHTAIF IT AKD TliJS WATER SPREAD OUT OYM? THE U S D . CLIFTOH HOBSOH WfflT TO WORK TO CORRECT HIS D M I M G E SLIDE FARM-3L8 DITCH P R G B L M , AID HERE I S THE DIFFERENCE. THE DIWH I S BANK FULL BUT IT*S STILL WITHHT THE BANKS OILY THE ROAD SEPERATBS THE TWO PICTURES AND THE DREDGED OUT DITCH TELLS THE STORY. THIS I S ONLY ONE OF SEVERAL DITCHES THAT CLIFTON HOBS ON HAS DREDGED OUT TO GIVE PROPER DRAINAGE TO HIS LAND. CLIFTON HOBSON PRACTICES ECONOMY IN EVERY PHASE OF HIS FARM PROGRAM AND HE KNOWS THAT TIME LOST WHILE GOING TO TOWN FOR REPAIRS I S COSTLY SLIDE FAR!?19 M ORKSHOP ' TIME* SO THIS MODERN FAHM WORKSHOP SOLVES THE i W LBT CONTINUITY FOR_ BY DATE. T!ME_ VIDEO AUDIO PROBLEM AND THE PRODUCTION WHEELS KEEP SMOOTHLY TURNING. SLIDE WELL s ? - .? ? "" - - < ;? ' . , OP COUHSt LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY NEED jWATER, AND OFTENTBES A STOCK POND IfOK'T CGMPLSTJ F I L L THE HBED, ESPECIALLY I I M Y WgATHffi, SO A DEEP WEEL PILLS THE BIXL AMD ALSO SUPPLIES ALL RATER NEEDiSD IN M l MODEM HOBS01 FARM HOME. | THE EOBSQN WELL I S INSIDE ONE OF THE BUILIOTGS, | PROTECTED FROM NATURES RAMPAGES. I i MS. HOBSOH !ASSURES A COFSTAET SUPPLY OF WATER BY HAYING . S L I D E . - . FAHMUgl T I I I S UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK WHICH TAKES THE PLACE OF TEE OLD UNSIGHTLY OVERHEAD STOSAGB. R U M L E L E C T S ! ITY SUPPLIS) BY THE CAPITAL BLBCTR! Vmm ASSOCIATION OF CLIITON, M I S S I S S I P P I , ALLOW* SUCH THINGS AS A PRESSURE PUMP TO KEEP THE WATEt READY FOR USE AT THE TUKN OF A FAUCET. SLIDE MENTIONED POULTRY A NUMBER OF TIMES. I'VE MBS. HOBSON HAS A 7 5 HMD LAYING FLOCK AND ALSO KEEPS ABOUT 7 5 BROIIERS FOI? THE DEEP FREEZE. SLIDE FARM#2< GARDEN THE THIS HOBSONS BELIEVE IN PRODUCING THEIR FOOD. ONE ACRE YEAR ROUND GARDEN PRODUCES SUFFICIENT VEGETABLES FOR THE F A M I L I E S NEEDS. IN ADDITION THE HOBSON?S HAVE A QUARTER ACRE GARDEN WITH 2 4 PEACH TREES AND 4 APPLE TRESS. MRS, HOBSON USED TO CAN ALMOST EVERYTHIIK SAVED FOR THE WINTER MONTHS...ABOUT 4 0 0 QUARTS. TODAY SHE CANS ONLY ABOUT 100 QUART AMD PUTS HIE -RJ3ST ??!Ñ AM 1 8 CUBTf W LBT CONTINUITY DATE, TIME_ FUR_ BY___ VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE FAKMr2< FOOf DEEP FREEZE WHICH IS KEPT FULL MOST OP THE SZB TIME, ELECTRICITY P U T S A MIGHTY IMPORTANT PAR! PR OGHAM. BESIDES JUT MRS, HOBS ON ½S nOMMAKim THE DEEP FREEZE, SHE HAS AN AUT?HftTIC WASHER M B SLIDE KITCHEJ -gAgjHjfj AUTOMATIC IRONER, ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR, RUNNING WATER AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT ONE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND IN A MODERN HOME. THERE?S ONLY OHB QW FASHIONED THING IN THAT LOVELY HOUSE, AND I T I S THERE ON PURPOSE, BECAUSE MRS. HOBS ON INSISTED SLI MB FA?M-2y | SHfi WAS GOING TO KEEP IIBR OLD POT BELLY STOVE I TO HEAT MM KITCHEN. MRS. HOBSON SAlfS SHE ALWAYS Eg JOYED 1HK H I M FROM HER WOOD STOVE AND SHE JUST HAD TO INSIST THAT I T RMAIJJED IN AN OTHERWISE COMPLETELY MODERN SETTING. CAMERA 0 1 FAMILY THERE'S MO! TO H I I S STORY THAN TIME WILL PERMIT OUR TELLING BUT LET MS FOR A MINUTi OR SO TELL YOU SOKBTHIHG ABOUT B O S FINE FAMILY AND THEIR COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES. 1HE HOBSON?S HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, MARIE MINES IS A SECRETARY TO MR, HILL JM THE POULTRY DEPARTMENT AT MISSISSIPPI STATE COLLEGE AND MARY HUDSON I S A NURSE AT THE CLINIC IN CANTOI. HEÑWOOD*CARSLE: SHE HAS TWO CHIIDREN AND THEY ARE LIVING WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS, H3k AND MRS. ! CLIFTON HOBSON. HIE HOBSONS ARE MEMBERS OP THE CENTER TERRACE BAPTIST CHURCH IN CANTON WHERE DAUGHTER MARY IS SUPBSINTENDMT QF THE L BT DATE- CONTINUITY BY TIME- VIDEO AUDIO INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. MR* HOBSON I S A HEMBER OF THE MADISON COUNTY CO?OP M B A MEMBER OP THE PARK BUREAU. BOTH DAUGHTERS WERE 4-H CLUB MEMBERS HAYING FOLLOWS 1ST THEIR MOTHER'S FOOTSTi MRS, HOBS ON W0Ñ A SCHOLARSHIP TO HIGH SCHOOL I I A TOMATO CLUB IJT 1 9 1 7 . CLUB MM SHE HAS BEEN A 4 - H IKSSE ARE TRULY FINE hmnm AT m TIME, FOLKS, SETTIIG AH EXAMPLE TO THOSE AROUHD | T H M ? , # # A I J EXAMPLE THAT WILL HELP TO SHOW THE |WAY TO MOlfi PROFITABLE FASMIIG IH M I S S I S S i P P I . 11 AM HBEED PROUD Mil m HAPPY TO SALUTE MR, AM CLIFTOI HOBSON AW FAMILY AS TEE ""RFD FASM FAMILY OF 1KB WEEK.
