W Family of the Week BY Howard L&agflfcfe VIDEO LBT CONTINUITY 12t25-1t00 P½m. Prl. Qot. 30, 1959 AUDIO CAMERA OH LANGPITT I WANT TO SAY IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TOTOEATTALA COUNTY AGENT, ME. PRANK BUCHANAN, HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT, MISS JEWEL MOGIHTY AND ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT BILLY WALTON, FOR THEIR VERY WONDERFUL HELP IN SEL10TI THE FAMILY WHICH WE SALUTE TODAY AID ALSO TO TBS AHD TO SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE WORK UNIT CONSERVATIONIST* C.S. VAMDERPORD, FOR 2HKXK QOIJH WITH HE TO THIS PARK TO HELP ME OBTAIM THE STORY WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO TELL. THIS IS THE STORY OF A FAMILY WHICH UTILIZES EVERY POSSIBLE M A N S OP PROVIDING PARM INCOME AND ALSO PROVIDES A GREAT AMOUNT OF WORK AND CONSEQUENT ADDITIONAL INCOME TO A NUMH0S OF OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY. THIS IS THE STORY OP M. AND MRS. BiSRLIN W. TIND0X& AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN THE CARMAGK COMMUNITY OP ATTALA COUNTY. THSR PARM OP 1200 ACRES IS LOCATED ABOUT NINE MILES EAST OP VAIDEN AND 20 MILES MORTH OP KOSCIUSKO. BERLIN TINDOL WAS BORN AT TIE POOT OP THE H2XL PROM THEIR PRESENT HOME AND HAS LIVED ON THIS LAND ALL HIS LIP!. MRS. TIND9LL GREW UP ABOUT A MILE WWAY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THEY GREW UP TOGETHER AS CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ATTENDED THE SAME CHURCa. THEY WERE MARHXED IN 1932 IN THE H1AKT OP THE DEPRES3I0M. THTS TS THRTO SLIDE PARM-3 MAIl "" W FOR_ BYVIDEO LBT CONTINUITY TIME, DATE_ AUDIO YOUNGEST SON* XI4. YEiK 0LD IVAliOM, WHO IS A CLUB MEMBER AS IS HIS OLDER SISTKR, 1? YEAR OLD FARM-2 FAMILY WAYMA, AMD AS WAS HIS OLDER BROTHER* 19 YEAR OLD BERLIE. THIS IS TRULY A ij.-H CLUB FAMILY. HERE IS A PICTURE OP EVERY MEMBER OF THIS HARD WORKIN FAMILY. ONLY BSRLIE, WAS NOT HOME, SO WE HAVE HIS MOTHER HOLDING A GOOD PICTURE OP HIM. HE IS DRIVING TRUCK BETWEEN JACKSON A&D DENVER. BUT TO GET BAGE TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF THIS FAMILY, BERLIN TIMDOLL*S FATHER PASSED AWAY 1$ YEARS AGO WHEN BERLIN MAS ONLY A YOUNGSTER, HE HARDLY KHEW HIM. AT THE TIME BERLIN MARRIED HS WAS FARMIMG WITH HIS FAMILY.,.HIS MOTHER, A SISTER AHD AH UNCLE. THE FIRST YEAR HE MUD MRS. TIMDOLJ SLIDE WERE MARRIED THEY LIVID WITH BERLIN*S FAMILY AND THEN THEY RENTED PART OF THE HOME BLACE AND BEGAN TO FARM FOR THEMSELVES. THE THIRD YEAR HS FARMED FOR HIMSELF BSRLIN BOUGHT OUT &i UNCLE WHO HAD AN ADJOINING 120 ACRES THIN HE AND TIE OTHER UNGLE PARMBD TOGETHER. SINCE THOSE DAYS HE HAS BOUGHT THS REST OF THE HOME LAND. IT IS LOCATED IN FIVE DIFFHIENT PARCELS. MR. AND M&m BERLIN TINDOLL STARTED MARRIED LIFE WIT A PAIR | OF MULES, .3 OR 1. COWS, A DOZEN CHICKENS, SOME QUILTS, A FEATHERBED, PILLOwS AND SOMS DISHES AND SLO8 FARM-k ex. & ?_r?* * ? * ?*? **? CANNED GOODS. THEY STARTED RAISING CORN AMD W LBT CONTINUITY f-OIL BY VIDEO TIMEDATEAUDIO GOTT01T AND FOR T H R U YEARS BERLIN LOGGED DURXH& THE OFF SKASOWS. IH 1937 HE BOUGHT OUT HIS ROTHER'S SAWMILL AND HAS BEEN SAWMILLIKG EVER SIH0B, AT THAT TIME HE DIUN*T HAVE ENOUGH LAHD SLIPS T? HAVE HIS OWN TIMBER SO HE OPERATED THIS GROUM SAWMILL BY WJtim SAW TIHBER OR MILLIH? FOB OTHERS AND MOVIH& IT HSOM PLACE TO PLAGE. FOR THS PAST TIN YEAHS HE HAS OEEEATIU THIS FlRMAHElf MILL. BACK IN THE EARLX DAYS HE GOULD SAW ABOUT BOARD FEET A DAY* HOW HE GAM HAHDLE 8,000 SLID! FARff½4 BOARD FEET PER DAY* HE SAWS HIS OWH TIMBER AMD ALSO BUYS LOGS DELIVERED TO TH1 MILL. WITH XHE HILL EBRLII OAH DO A COMPLETE JOB OH AHY KIHD OP ROUGH TIMBER, HE IS HIS OWN MAGHIHII HE FILES HIS OWH SAWS AID OVERHAULS HIS OWH TRACTORS. ON TH1 FARM THERE IS 800 AGHBS OF WHIOH HK THINS AMD WEEDS AMD SELECTIVELY gSTS ABOUT 10 AGRES OF PIKE SEEDLINGS HAVE PLANTED BY THE BOYS AS lf*H CLUB PR04ESTS. SLIDE FARH-1 r HIRSS ABOUT 8 PEOPLK IN THE SAW MILL MOST OF THE TIWB, OVER THE YBARS HE HAS FILLED IM ½ASY A GULLY WITH SAWDUST. AS HE CULLS OUT HIS POOR TIMBER HE CUTS POSTS OFF THE FARM. THIS IS PSELfiR WHICH HE DESIGNED AND BUILT FOR US! fflEFLAOE. HE STACKS AHD DRYS THE POSTS AHD SLIDE FARM-8 TREATS THEM WITH A PENTA SOLUT1OM TW W HJR_ BY___ LBT CONTINUITY TIMEDATE_ VIDEO AUDIO VAT. HE USES MOST OP THE POSTS QJf THE PLAGE THOUGH HE DOES SELL A FEW AMD HE DOES TREAT SOME OGOASIOHALLY FOR OTHER FOLKS. THE MILL HELP LUTES ON THE PLACE. ALL HE HAS FIVE WHITE FAMILIES AND THEY MASS W THE MILLXHG CREW AHB ANOTHER CREW TOO, THAf I?LL TELL XOB ABOHf I N A FEW MIHOTSS. BEBLIN TIHDOLL ALSO RklMS mm coffoif so?.,.ABOUT 18 AGSBS, WHICH SLIPS FABM-9 IS HANDLED ON THE SHARES A ! AVERAGES ABOUT A BALE TO TIB ACRS. HIS LIVESTOCK PROGRAM IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PAST OF THE FARM PBQGRAM. HE HAS 35 BROOD 00VS....2i|. REGISTERED AUIMALS IH ALL SLIDE FARM -XO CALVES 0O0MTimi 8 YQVm HEIFERS. HE FOLLOWS A COMMERCE COW AMD CALF PROQRAM SELLXHG THE GALVES MILKFAT OFF THE COW. IF HE HAS AMI EXTRA FKEB HE DOES BOX A FEW TO FIHISH OUT OM GRAIH AHB QmZlM. BB HOPES UITHIJf THE HEXT THREB iffiARS TO HAVE 100 BROOD COWS. THE BSBD IS TB AND BAHGS TESTED SLIDE FARfg-U BULL AMD BERLIN KEKPS TWO BEOISTEHSD BLACK AHGUS WJLL& QW OF HIS PRIMARY GOALS IS TO CONTIOTE TO IHPB01 TBM QUALITf OF HIS HERD BY BETTER BREEDING AMD BETTER MANAGEMENT. HE COHTROLS ISSECTS AMD PARAISTES m V3IM BACKROBS STRATEGICALLY LOCATH SLIDE WAQSRua IH ALL THE PASTtJSES, AVALOJT DOES MOST OF THE CARIHG FOR THESE BACKBUBS AS A PART OF HIS ij.-H CLTO EHT0M0L0GY PROOSOT. BERLIH TIHDOL ALSO HAS W LBT CONTINUITY TIME_ DATE- FOR_ BY__ VIDEO AUDIO THE NECESSARY CATCH PUNS FOR HANDLING HIS LIVK STOCK AMD HAS BUILT HIS O N HEADGATE IN THE HAI1 W SLIDE FARK-313 WORKING PEN. WATER FOR THE LIVESTOCK I S 8UPPLXE PROM CREEKS AND PONDS SUCH AS THIS ONE OH THE HOME PLACE. THIS POND I S ALSO THE SIGHT OF A COMMUNITY GBT TOGETHER 0H TEE i|.TH OF JULY 8AGB XEAH, EACH XBAR - BBVWESN TWO AHD FOUR CQm AND BRING THEIR LUNCH AND S N J 0 1 SLIDE FARMAND P I S I I H S . msRLIN TIND8LL HAS 1 0 0 AGRKS OF PERMANENT IHlBOVED PASTUHE IN ADDITION TO HIS NATIVE 0BASS WOODS PASTURES, HIS PiatMANEUT &1AZING CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF THIS BAHAIA QKASS, BSiMUDA, D/iLLIS AND 0OMt4ON LSSPKDB2A. HE PUTS BASIC SLAG ON HIS PASTURES AND OCCASIONALLY NITROGEN AND SOUS JKXED FERTILIZER, LiiFT TO RIGHT IN THIS PA0TUB1 ARE BILLY WALTON, ASSI8TAS! COUNTY A6ffiNTt Q?3* VANDERFORD, SOIL CONSERVATION 8 K I V I C E WORK UNIT CONSERVATIONIST, AVALON TlNDOLJ SLIDE. FARjfrj OATS P3 COUNTY AGBNT FRANK BUCHANAN AND BERLIN. TEMPORAI (WAZING CONSISTS OF 1 5 - 2 5 ACRES OF OATS PUT IN A PREPARED SEEDED. HE TAiffiS THS CATTLE OFF IN MARCH AND CARRIES THEM ON FOR HAY I B FOR SEED. HE FOLLOWS OATS WITH KOBE LESFEDEZA FOR F.U* HAY. BERLIN DOES SOME CUSTOM BALING AND PUTS UP ABOUT l t 0 0 0 BALI 3 FOR HIS O N USE, W HE ALSO HAS \$ ACRE W L BT CONTINUITY TIME. BY__ DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO OF SOYBEANS WHICH HE HOPES TO HARVEST FOR SLIDE T3QH1 EACH YEAR BERLIN PLAHTS 100 ACRES IN CGRX. PLAINS HYBRID SEED AMD HiiS AH AVERAGE YIELD OP $$ BUSHELS, HE HARVESTS ABOUT 6$ ACRES FOR GRA Aim FEEDS ALL HE HEEDS AID SELLS SOMEj 'THE BBS1 OF m B QORM IS PUT UP AS SILAGE. HE STARTED HI! SILAGE PROGRAM USIBG SGR<JHOM SIX XfciARS AQO BUT MUCH PRKFEKS THE CORH. BERLIN 2IHD0LL HAS 3 T&ENOBBS, raiOH HOLD ?5*90 AHD 100 TOSS. BS FILLS TWO EA0H YEAH AHD OSI.S THE THIRD FOR AM GVSRFLOW, IP HE HAS CORH TO PUT IH THE THIRD SILO HE BUYS EXTRA CATTLE TO PKBD OUT OH If. HE ALSO FILLS SILOS FOR 10 TO 15 OTHER PEOPLE. BERLIN TIMDOLL BELIEVES IH HEAVY FERTILISATION FERTILIZER SHED OF HIS LilHD AND HAS BUILT A STORA0E BUILDIUS IN WHICH TO H S P HIS SUPPLES. IM FACT HB HAS BUILT SVERY BODILIIiG ON THE PLACE, IHCLUDI^ A MACHINE SHED AHD WORKSHOP, V3XH0 TIMBER OFF HIS OWH LAUD WHICH BE HAS SAWED IN HIS OWH MILL AND BUILT WITH HIS OWH LABOR. AHOTHER IMPORTANT PAR OF BERLIH TIHDOLL'S FARM PRO0RAM IS SYRUP MAKIHS TSEI BERLIN HAS PUT UP SYRUP FOR SIX YEARS. HE USED TO MAKE ABOUT lúQO GALLONS OP SORGHUM EACH YEAR BUT WHEN LOUISIANA WHITE CAME BECAME AVAILABLE HE ?TORNBD.TO IT. FROM THIS ACRE HE WILL POT ABOUT 600 0ALLOHS OF SYRUP THIS YEAR * MOTI0B SLIDE FARM*!? SILO SLIDE SLIDE W FOR. BY_. VIDEO LBT CONTINUITY TIMEDATE_ AUDIO THE DIFFERENCE IH HEIGHT OF THE W O ROWS ON THE RIGHT, IT IS THE OLD VARIETY BLUE CAME, XEBB HIST IS THE LOUISIANA WHITE CAHE...A NEW IlfPROV: FARM-20 GAM V A R H T T , WHICH BERLII SATS WILL YIELD THREE TO GHE OVER THE BLUE CAH1, THIS COMPABI@0H WILL SHOW YOU WHAT I MS&N* THE CADE.FRASK BU0HAHA1 IS HOLDING OH THE LEFT IS TUB OLD VAHIBTT BLUE CAKE THB OTHER SBXflB HELD BY MR* VAMDSRFOHD XA THE HBW CANE AND YOU* DON?T SEE THE TOP.OP IT. DTJRIUG HARVEST SEASON KSRLIH TIMDSLL K1EPS WE SANE MILL GANE MILL RUNNING MIGHT AHD DAY DURING THE HUSH, BESIDES HAXXHO SYRITP PROH HIS OWN CAME HE ALSO MAKES SYRUP FOR OTHER POLKS...SOWS OF THEH AS HB AS 25 MILES AWAY. HE POWERS HIS MILL WITH A TRAGTQR AND PROO1SS OH A CUSTOM BASIS. THg SLIDE OROWES GETS THE GAHB TO THE MILL AKD BERLIH CAlffi M I L L CRUSHES, COOKS AHD BUCKETS IT OH A $Q~$O BASIS. FROM THE CRUSHER THE JUICfi GOES TO THIS H0LDI8H TANK WHERE IT IS HELD UHTIL NEEDED IH THE COOKIIR PAtf, IT GOES TO THE GQG&im PAH BY GRAVITY FLOW SLIDE . FABM-tl COGKIIfG PAH THROUGH A PIPBLIHB, BERLIN USES THE SAME CREW IJ THE CASE MILL THAT WORKS THE SAWMILL DURING ANOTHER S1ASOH. THE COOKIlfG PAN IS TENDED BY HAMP TYLER AUD HE COOKS BY EYE AND DECIDES WHEH IT HAS BEEN COOKSD ENOUGH. THE 0AN 18 PJMB BY PR0PA1K GAS. WHEM THE SYRUP COMES OUT OF THE W LBT CONTINUITY TIME_ DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO PAH IT IS PUT IK GALLON BUCKETS AS DEMONSTRATED BtlM WOMAN & SYRUP BBRE BY ATTALA COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRATION AOENTf MISS JEWEL MCGINTY, BERLIN TINDOLL SAYS SYRUP MAKING IS ON THE INCREASE AND THE QUALITY IS AS GOOD AS HE HAS EVER HAD. BERLIN MARKETS MOST OP HIS SYRUP IN ATTALA COUNTY, BOTH WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. THIS YEAR HE WILL PUT UP 1500 TO 1800 GALLONS OH A CUSTOM BASIS. B12RLHI SAYS HIS FAMILY DOBSJPT EAT SYRUP. W .THAT HE EATS ABOUT Jk GALLOH A YEAR. BY THE WAY, IE SAVES HIS OWN CAKE SEED AND MOST OF HIS OTHER SEED EXCEPT CORK, THIS 100 FOOT ESSP ARTESIAN WELL LOCATED NEAR THE OAME MILL FLOWS V$ 0ALL0H3 PER MINUTE ALL THE TIME. IT IS I8TERESTISG TO NOTE THAT XW A YEAR BERLIN TIHDOLL WILL PROVIDE LABOR FOR AS MASY AS 250 PB0P1S WHO WILL DERIVE TffiS MAJOR SHARE OF THE3S ISOOME Hi CM HIS OPERATION..,. AS AI AFTER THOUGHT HE SAYS HOT QUITE THAT MANY NOW. I COULD 00 ON AT Q1EAT LENGTH ABOUT THIS FARM PROGRAM BUT I MUST MENTION THE H0M1MAKING PRQGRAK SLIDE FARM SIRUP IN BUOKlf3 SLIDE SLIDE o w< OF MRS, TINDOLL. FROM T32IR ACRE 0ARDEN AID MEAT SUPPLY SHE EAOH YEAR PUTS ABOUT 2ú00 POUNDS OP POOD IN THE .FAMILY FREEZER. THEY ALSO PUT A LOT OP WILD GAME IN THE FiBE&BfU SHE RECALLS THAT AT ONE TIME THEY HAD 100 POUNDS OF FRQ0 LEGS IN THE JKEEZER. SHE ALSO PUTS UP W L BT CONTINUITY TIME_ DATE- huR. BY VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE FARM-20 GAINED FOOD 200 QUARTS OF POOD IN JARS EACH YEAR. HERB WE SEE HER AHD MISS MCGINTY CHECKING THE PRES1H? > SUPPLY. SHE ALSO LOVES TO COOK, ESPECIALLY THESE G O T ON BBR MODERN ELECTRIC RANGE. IT?S SLIPS KTTOI QUITE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT SHE STARTED BGKEMAXZQN WITH. TINDOLL BUILT THEIR FIRST HOME IN 3.93k AHD THEY WERE BURNED OUT IN 1939 IN JANUARY. 18 DAYS LATER THEY MOVED IHTO THIS THEIR PMSSEBT HOME WHICH HE BUILT. IT IS THEIR HOPE TO DO A COMPLETE REMODELING JOB IN-THE SBAR FUTURE. THOU&H MRS. TIKDOLL STILL PIECES QUILTS SHE HAS AT KAGHTNS TURNED HOST OF THE SEWING GVKR TO DAUGHTER WAYMA, WABffi IS IN HER 7TH YEAR OF If-H AND M S AS HER PROJECTS, FOOD, CLOTHING* HEJ&TB, PERSONALITY IMPROVEMENT AND LEADERSHIP. SHE IS SECRETARY OF THE CARMACK COMMUNITY 4?H CLUB AND REPORTER FOR THE COUNTY lf?H COUNCIL. SHE IS ALSO VICE PBESIHI HD PROGRAM CHAIRMAN OF THE F.H.A. AID MEMBER OUTSTAUDIBG IfH GLUB GIRL IN ATTALA COUBTY. FARM- OF THE Y-TIENS. THIS YEAR SHE WON A WATCH AS THE FAMILY THE BERLIH TINDOLL FAMILY ^LOHGS TO THE HEBRON BAPTIST CHURCH IN I?ARB2f MOHTGOMERY COUSTY. MRS. TIHDOLL IS GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE SUHDAY SGHGOfc AHD BERLIN SAYS HB V/ORKS WHEREVER HE IS HEEDED. kFAYMA IS PJCSNIST FOR THE CHURCH. MRS. TIHDOLL IS PRESIDEHT OF THE CARMAOK HOME DEMOI3STRATION CLUP W KJIL LBT CONTINUITY TIME, DATE- BY- VIDEO AUDIO WHERE SHE HAS BEEN A MEMBER FOR TEH YEARS. BERLIN TINDOLL WAS THE FIRST FRBSIDEHT OP THE CARMAOIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB AND HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE ATa'ALA COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOB THE PAST FIVE YEAES. HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD AND LIFETIME MEMBER OF TR ABERDEEN ANGUS ASSOCIATION. M IS A MEMBER OF THE COUNTY ROD AND GUN CLUB AM) THE MISSISSIPPI CATTLBHEN*S ASSOCIATION. BfiRLIE WAS AN OUfSTAMD; ING km CLUB MEMBER WHILE IN SCHOOL WITH FORESTS AND BEEF PROJECTS. AVALON IS A MEMBER OF THE 4-H CROPS JUDGING TEAM WHICH WOK SECOND PLACE IN THE DISTRICT AND 8TH PLAGE IN THE STATE, HE IS IN THE NINTH GRAPS...PLAYS FOOTBALL IS AN FFA MEMBER AND LIKES TO HUNT. HIS Jj.~H PROJECTS m& FORESTRY, BSSF, PASTURE, ENTOMOLOGY, AMD LEASERS SHIP, I ONLY WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO TELL OF THIS FAMILY'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUT I DO WANT THUS TO AT LEAST SAY HELLO, SO HERE THEY ARE. 3U WHAT CONDITION OF LAND WHEN STARTED? 2* WHAT IS SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS? 3. MRS, TINDOLL WHAT HAS M ú N BIOGEST ZHFROVBKSl IN HQHEHAKXHS PROGRAM, k* WAYMS, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO AFTER SCHOOL. ú½ BERLIB, WHAT ARE HOPES FOR FUTURE? 6. AVALON, DO YOU WANT TO BE A FARMS!?
