L FOR BY B DATE TIME T CONTINUITT VIDEO AUDIO CAMERA ON LAFGFITT TODAY IT I S MY PLEASURE TO SALUTE ANOTHER FARM FAMILY M4E3JG All OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO AGRICULTURE IN M I S S I S S I P P I , SLIDE 11 TO REACH THE FARM OF THE FAMILY WE PAY TRIBUTE TO TODAY YOU DRIVE WEST OF JACKSON OS"" HIGHWAY 80 TO BOLTOÑ, THEN YOU TURN NORTH AND DRIVE TO BROHNSVILL AND LEAVE TtiE BLACKTOP FOR ABOUT TWO MILES AID THIS IS THE FIRST THING YOU WILL SEE AS YOU DRIVE INTO THE FRONT YARD, THE T BAR FARM I S OWMD AM) MR. OPERATED BY MR. AND MRS. ROBERT TROTTER. AND MRS. TROTTER HAVEN'T ALWAYS LIVED 0Ñ THE T BAR FARM. MR. TROTTER GREW UP JUST ABOUT THREE MILES HE DOWN THE ROAD ON THE OLD TROTTER HOME PLACE. LIVED I F THIS COMMUNITY M I L E HE WAS GOING TO H U B S JUNIOR COLLEGE, AND LATER M I L E HE M S ATTENDING MISSISSIPPI STATE COLLEGE WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS DEGREE IN MECHANICAL AND EDB.CTRICAL ENGINEERING. IS 1933 ROBERT TROTTER MARRIED MISS AT MARGARET SADDLER FROM DECATUR, M I S S I S S I P P I . THE TIME MRS. TROTTER WAS TEACHING FIFTH AW) SIXTH GRADES IN THE BROWNSVILLE SCHOOL. FARM IN 1936 THEY LEFT THE WHEN ROBERT WENT TO WORK FOR THE SHELL OIL COMPANY IN TEXAS AID THEY STAYED IN TEMS UNTIL 1948 JfHM THEY RETIMED TO MISSISSIPPI AND T CONTINUITY rOR BI DATE_ TIME VIDEO AUDIO THE T BAR FARM MERE THEY N W MAKE THEIR HOME. O SLIDE 12 MRS. TROTTER LOVES FLOWERS A S ! DIVIDES HER TIME BETWEEN HER FLOWERS AND HER FAMILY. HAVE TWO SOUS THE TROTTER'S BOB IS A SENIOR AT MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE, STUDYING FOR fEfi MINISTRY, AND DON IS I N THE TENTH GRADE AT BOLTON. 'THIS LOVELY OLD HOME I S THE CENTER OF MUCH OF THE FAMILY ACTIVITY. SLIDE 13 ROBERT TROTTER I S A FARMER WHO BELIEVES IN D I V E R S I F I C A T I O N . . .AND HIS FARMING OPERATION INCLUDES ABOUT $J*rfiEAD OF HOGS AS ""WELL AS CATTLE, CORN, COTTON, HAY AND OTHER CROPS. SLIDE 14 MR. AND MRS. ROBERT TROTTER AND DON, WHO IS STILL AT HOME, FARM ABOUT A THOUSAND A C R E S . . . .710 OF WHICH THEY OWN, AND ANOTHER 300 THEY RENT. FARMING T M T MICK LAND WOULD REQUIRE EITHER A TREMENDOUS LABOR FORCE OR MECHANIZATION. THE TROTTERS HAVE CHOSEN MACHINERY TO GET THE WORK DONE AND THEY BELIEVE IN DOING IT RIGHT. AS I VISITED THE FARM THE OTHER DAY, TRACTORS WERE BUSY IN THE FIELD PLOWING AND FERTILIZING FOR THIS YiAR'S CRDP. WHAT THE PICTURE DOESN'T SHOW IS THE FLOOD THAT CAME A DAY LATER AND WIPED OUT ALL THEIR WORK ON THIS F I E L D . . . . B U T THE TROTTERS K O "" THIS I S PAST OP THE NW GRMT GAMBLE THAT I S PAEMING.. .AN3 I T2UST THE SEEDBED HAS BEEN PREPARED AGAIN AND THE WORK GOES ON* CONTINUITY DATE_ BY TIME VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE 15 AS I MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO, CATTLE PLAY AN IMPORTS T PART IN THE TROTTER FARMING OPERATION 50 AJJD ALONG WITH XSH H M D OF HOGS GOES 2 0 0 H M D OF CATTLE WITH FARM PONDS LIKE' THE ONE SHOWN IN THE BACKGROUND TO FURNISH PLENTY OF FRESH WATER AT ALL SLIDE 16 TIMES. MR. TROTTER I S RAPIDLY GETTING OILY BLACK ANGUS CATTLE ON THE PLACE BECAUSE HE TELLS ME HE I S CONVINCED THEY ARE EASIER TO EEEP UP AND THEY TAKE L E S S FEED. ENTERPRISE. MR. TROTTER I S PROUD OF HIS CATTLE I F I R S T NOTICED I T A FEW MONTHS AGO A S I SAT BESIDE HIM AT A REGISTERED ANGUS SALE I N CANTON AM) MATCHED HIM BID CAREFULLY FOR THE BEST SLIDE 17 GRADE CATTLE. MR. TROTTER AND SON, DON BOTH LOVE TO R I D E . MR. TROTTER I S PARTICULARLY FOND OF THIS MARE THAT HE HAS TRAINED TO ffiING IN HIS CATTLE WITH GREAT SKILL. SHE SEEMS TO S E I 6 E WHEN A COW I S ABOUT TO RUN A2TO ?WHEELS QUICKLY TO PREVENT I T . BREAK AM WL. TROTTER TELLS ME THAT SO CLOSELY DOES THIS MARE WATCH THE CATTLE, THAT S H E ' L L UNSEAT YOU I F YOU AREN'T WATCHING TOO, MR. TROTTER'S F A V O R I T E M R E MOVES I I M Y ONE OF F I V E GAITS AS S K I L L F U L L Y AS CAN BE IMAGINED, CONTINUITY toR BY DATE_ TIME VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE 18 BOB TROTTER, M O I S NOW 2 0 , A S D DON, WM 2F IS, HAVE BOTH BEEN OUTSTANDING 4 - H CLUB MEMBERS. BOB WAS IN THE FIRST M I S S I S S I P P I 4 - H DELEGATION TO JOURNEY TO MINNESOTA. DON, SHOWN HERE WITH H I S B E E F PROJECT, I S A MEMBER OF THE HINDS PACESETTERS 4 - H C L U B . . . H E CARRIES 0 1 A WILDLIFE PROJECT, I T H I N K PARTLY, BECAUSE THE WHOLE FAMILY LOVES TO WW. Am RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF RESTOCKING AID PROTECTING WILDLIFE. I N ADDITION DON HAS A PIG P R O J E C T , CORF PROJECT AND ELECTRICITY PROJECT TO NAME A FEW. HE M S RECENTLY NAKED HIGH INDIVIDUAL SCORERS IN THE SOUTHWEST DISTRICT CROPS JUDGING CONTEST. 2BN TROTTER HAS T H E TO STUDY ALSO. H E I S VALEDICTORIAN OF HIS CJULSS AND WHEN I N 'THE 8 T H GRADE RECEIVED THE AMERICAN LEGION AWARD FOR L E A D E R S H I P , CHARACTER AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT. H E I S ALSO CAPTAIN OF THE BOLTON BASKETBALL TEAM. SLIDE 19 A L L I S NOT WORK 0 Ñ THE TROTTER FARM. WHEN MR. TROTTER I S JfOT BUSY AT FARM BUREAU WORK, BEING P R E S I D E N T OF THE HIM3S COUNTY FARM BUREAU, OR WHEN H I S DUTIES OF MEMBER OF THE HIJJBS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ARE DONE, OS WiEM H E ' S NOT BUSY PREPARING H I S SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR THE M M ' S C U S S HE TEACHES IN THE BROffiSVILLB BAPTIST CHURCH, YOU WILL L CONTINUITY T DATE_ BY TIME VIDEO AUDIO FIND HIM fITH MRS. TROTTER AT OWE OF THE FIVE OR S I X FARM PONDS ON THE PIACE, ENJOYING PLEASANT RELAXATION IN THE QUIETNESS OF NATURE'S HANDIWORK AND FILLING THE HOME FREEZER WITH BEAUTIES LIES THESE. FARM LIFE IS THE GOOD LIFE FOR MR. AND MRS. ROBERT TROTTER AND THEY HAVE GIVEN MUCH, HOT ONLY TO THEIR O N FAMING OPERATION, BUT TO THE ADVANCEMENT W OF AGRICULTURE IN HINDS COUNTY AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. CAMERA ON LANGFITT THAT'S ONLY A PART OF THE TSOTTER STORY. NOW, I ' D LIKE YOU TO MEET T11ETROTTER FAMILY AS WE TALK WITH THEM ABOUT SOME OTHER THINGS THAT MARK THEM AS OUR OUTSTANDING FARM FAMILY OF TEE WEEK ON ""RFD TELEVISIT.""
