W L b T CONTINUITY Family of the Week BY__ TIMEDATE. 12:2ú-ls00 p.m. Pri, Marsh 20, 1959 AUDIO VIDEO CAMERA OH LAHGF2TT I WANT TO SAX IN THE VERY BEGINNING THAT I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO MR. JACK TRELOAR, AGRICULTURA; DIRECTOR AT HINDS JUNIOR COLLEGE, FOB HIS VERY sfONDKRFUL HELP IN SELECTING THE FAMILY WHICH WE 3ALUTE TODAY AND FOR GOING WITH Mb, TO THEIR FARM W HELP ME OBTAIN THE STORY WHICH I AM NOW GOING 0 TELL. THIS IS THE STORY OF MR. AND MRS, H, SLIDE FARMrl FAMILY HANK WELLS, THEIR DAUGHTER MARY, AND SON, JLIFFORD, WHO LIVE ABOUT TEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF IAYM0ND, MISSISSIPPI, IN HINDS COUNTY, JUST OFF ! HE RAYMOND TO DRY GROVE ROAD, WHERE THEY OWN AID 'ARM 300 ACRES OF LAND. FRANK WELLS GREW UP AT ULASKI, TENNESSEE AND MRS. WELLS GRi-W UP ON A ARM NEAR FAYJSTTEVILLE, TENNESSEE, THE ADJOINING OUNTY. SHE RECALLS THAT SHE HAD A FIRST COUSIN LIVING NEAR PULASKI AND MET FRANK WHILE VISIT1H& , ~JER COUSIN. THEY WEBS MARRIED IN 1932. UNTIL BY LEFT TENNESSEE IM 1936 THEY RAISED GOTWM MD MILKED COWS ON i^OO ACRES OF LEASED LAND, J«S ELLS SAYS WHEN THEY WERE MARRIED SHE HAD NEVER ICEED A BOLL OF COTTON IN HER LIFE AND FRANK HAD COTTON THAT FIRST YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE SO SHE SOOi ISAHNBD HOW. FRANK RECALLS THAT WHEN THEY M&RRIEJ IE HAD $100 AND THEY HAD A LITTLE FURNITURE. THE SECOND YEAR OF THEIR MARRIED LIFE THEY BOUGHT NEW W LBT CONTINUITY TIME- BYVIDEO DATE_ AUDIO URING THOSE FIRST YEABS OP MARRIED LIFE, IK THE IEEART OP THE DEPRES3IQS, FRANK WORKED FOB ?5^ A AY AND EVEN THEN MANAGED TO SAVE UP #100. THEY OULDN'T SELL EGGS SO THEY SWAPPED THEM FOR FOOD. 1936 MR, AND MRS. FRANK WELLS GAME TO MISSISS1 HERE THE FIRST YiiAR FRANK WORKED FOR WAGES FOR IER. V.L. SCOTT AM) THEN SBARECR8PPED WITH HIM FOB IVE MORE YEARS OH COTTON AND CORK. SLIDE FARM^2 HOUSE IT WAS THEN IB WAS ABLE TO BUY 2 j O ACRES OF THEIR PRESENT l. FARM. THEY BOUGHT IT IN 1 i . AND MADE TWO SHARE 9jO (SHOPS AFTER THEY BOUGHT IT AND BEFORE THEY MOVED !NTO THIS HOUSE IN X9k2. FRANK SAYS THE LAND WAS RN OUT AND GROWN UP TO BRIARS AND BUSHES. HE JiAYS THEY WOULDN'T ANYONE ELSE HAVE IT, AND HE VFOULDN½T HAVE IP HE GOULD HAVE FOUND ANYTHING liETTEH. HE RECALLS TEA'S JUST BEFORE HE BOUGHT SLIDE HE LAND THOSE FARMING IT MADE FOUR BALES OF COTTON ON Z3 ACRES. YOU COULDN'T WALK OR RIDE HROUGH MUCH OF THELAND. THE GULLIES WERE BAD i.ND THE FERTILITY WAS LOW BUT ' T A FIRST YEAR HE .HT FARMED IT HE MADE 23 BALES OF COTTON ON THE 23 i.CRES. HE SAYS HIS BIG ½TOB HAS BEEN BUILDING SOU SLIDE FARMPASTURE FERTILITY AND GETTING HIS LAND IN SHAPE WHERE HE IE COULD HANDLE IT WITH MACHINERY, FRANK WELLS CREW HIS LAST COTTON IN 3,91$. HE HAD FIVE OR SIX W LBT CONTINUITY TIME_ BY DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO ADDED A PEW ALONG AS HE HAS BEEN ABLE, SLIDE d&TTLE EVERYTHING OH THE PLAGE HAS BEEN RAISED THERE EXCEPT FOR POUR COWS WHICH HE HAS BOUGHT IN THE LAST 12 MOUTHS. HIS HEHD TODAY TOTALS 100 HEAD WITH $0 BROOD COWS. HE FOLLOWS A COMMERCIAL COW AND CALF PROGRAM AND SELLS HIS CALVES MILK FA SLIDE FARM?6 CATTLE PAT OFF THE COW. HS GETS A 90 TO 9$% CALF GRQP CULLS HIS HERD CLOSE Alii) GETS HID OF ANYTHING 'HAT DOESN'T PRODUCE A CALF. FRANK WELLS HOPES SVENTUALLY TO GROW INTO A HERD OF 75 TO 80 BROOD 0W5 AMD THEM HE'LL M SLIDE PAHM-7 READY TO HOLD IT THERE. IE SELLS HIS GALVES AS HEAVY FAT CALVES WEIGHING BOUT k$0 POUNDS OH BETTER, HE HAS TWO REGISTERED 3EREF0RD BULLS AS HERD SIRES, A FEW YEARS AGO HE SOUGHT 60 ACRES AT OAKLEY AND PLANS TO USE IT TO GRAZE HIS CALVES. HI ALSO PLANS TO START 3REBP FEEDING THIS YEAR. FRANK WELLS IS STRICTLY ,i GRASSLAND FARMER. HIS PERMANENT PASTURE CONSIS! )F 190 ACRES OF DALLIS AMD BERMUDA GRASS, WHITE ;w$m CLOVER, CRIMSON Am HOP CLOVER AND WILD WIN* /INTER PEAS. SLIDE ?ARM,?8 TWO MEH HE FERTILIZES ALL HIS LAND HEAVILY, JSING BASIG SLAG POTASH AND NITRATE ON HIS PASTUR1 AND. FOR TEMPORARY GRAZING FRAMK SOD SEEDS SO CUES OF OATS INTO HIS PERMANENT SOD AND PUTS OUT MOTHER 30 ACRES IN A PREPARED SEEDBID. HE SAVES W L BT CONTINUITY TIME- BY DATE. VIDEO AUDIO EED OFF THE 30 AGRES. HE PUTS V? 8,000 BALES W HAY EACH YEAH, MOSTLY FROM PASTURE CLIPPINGS. :mAWK USES GEIMIGAL WEED CONTROL ON HIS PASTURE HE DOUBLE CROPS THE LAHD HE PUTS IN OATS. JE FOLLOWS THE OATS WITH HITHER GRAIN SORGHO SfclDE SILO 3 SILAGE. HE HAS FOUR PASTURE AREAS AMD PUTS R JUS CATTLE ON HIS OATS HOVisRMBER FIRST AND TAKES )EF ABOUT MARCH FI ST. FRAMK PLANTS HYBRID SORaB OR SILAGE,,.ABOUT %$ ACRES OF IT, HE HAS TWO IEHENCH SILOS THAT HOLD ABOUT 300 TONS TOTAL. HE .JUST ADDED SILAGE TO HIS PROGRAM LAST YBAR AND LAHS TO FILL TEEM ABOUT LVERY OTHER YEAR. FRAJJK SLIDE FARM-XQ SILO LOADER iBDM) SILAGE TO PROTECT HIS WINTER PASTURE AND V.O GIVE HIS CATTLE A LAXATIVE FEED WHEN PASTURES SHORT. HE IS ALSO USING SILAGE TO INCREASE CARRYING CAPACITY C f HIS CATTLE DURIHG THE f ER MOHTHS. FRAHK USES A SILAGE ELEVATOR AT TREHCH FOR HAULIHG SILAGE TO BUMKS, HE ItASH'T FED MUCH HAY THIS PAST WINTER BUT FEEDS TS SLIDE FABM*U fOHD I'REE CHOICE AS HE ISEBS If. WATER FOR THE LIVESTOCK IS SUPPLIED FB0M THREE STOCK POMDS IMILAR TO THIS OHE THE YEAR FlJUffi CAHE TO THIS 1AM) HE WAS FARMING WITH A PAIR OF MULES AID A I [ARE BUT BOUGHT A TRACTOR THAT FIRST YEAR AMD HAS EEI MECHANIZED EVER SIHCE. HE HAS ALSO ALWAYS SLIPS FARM-I2 IAISED A FEW HOGS. HE HAS FOUR BROOD SOWS WITH W LBT CONTINUITY TIME_ BY__ DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO IOS. HE SELLS ABOUT $0 HEAD OP HOGS A YEAR. [F HE HAS THE FEED HE FINISHES HIS HOGS OUT FOE fARKET, OTHERWISE HE SELLS THEM AS FEEDERS. mkm SLIDE ...FARM-IS HOGS DOESN'T RAISE AHY CORN BUT DOES RAISE ORAX1 HE FEEDS THE GRAIN TO THE HOGS AM) ORGHUM. JH1OKEHS AND TO THE CALVES WHEN THEY NEED IT. !JWELVB YEAR OLD CLIFFORD HAS A PIG PROJECT AS HIS w H CLUB PROJECT. THIS IS HIS FIRST YEAR IS I*-H LUB WORE AMD HIS OTHER PROJECT IS SOIL AND WATE1 JOHSBRVATION. FRANK WELLS ALSO HAS 80 ACRES IN SLIDE PARM-2JL TIMBER INE TIMBER WHICH HE PROTECTS FROM FIRE AND JELECTIVELY HARVESTS. HE SAYS HE HAS SOLD ENOUGH MBER OFF HIS LAND TO PAY FOR THE LAND AND STILL 3úASH*T DEPLETED THE STAND ANY. MOST OF FRAUDS (PEN LAND HAS BEEN CLEARED BY HIM SINGE HE BOUGHT HE FARM IB 19^0. ALL OF IT IS OPEN NOW BUT THE 0 ACRES IN TIMBER. HIS LAND IS FENCED AND CRfSS 3BWUS, THE ONLÑ BUILDINGS ON THE TUGE WERE THE 3L0USE AND A TENNANT HOUSE, HE HAS BUILT THE REST PROM TIMBER OFF HIS LAND, INCLUDING A HAY BARN. SLIDE FARH-3.g kAN & TRACTOR S I SAID, FRA1K WELLS IS COMPLETELY JffiGHANIZED, B HAS TWO TRACTORS, COMBINE, BALER AND ENSILAGE UTTSR. FRANK DOES A LOT OF CUSTOM WORK TO UPPLEMENT HIS HEGUALR FARM INCOME. BACK IN ID *50 HE RAISED A LOT OF CRIMSON CLOVER AND !)XD A LOT OF SEED CLEANING, HE STILL HAS HIS W LBT CONTINUITY TIME. BY DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO SLIDE FARM-16 MA0H3 3LEANIHQ EQUIPMENT WHICH HE S T I L L USJCS TO GLEAN IJIS OATS. AS HE BTJILT THE FERTILITY OP HIS SOIL FEE GRASSES KILLED OUT THE CLOVER, HE PAID FOR :JIS CLEANING EQUIPMENT ON THE FIRST CROP OB1 L0VER HE CLEANED, MOST FARMERS, WHEN THEY HAVB SLIDE FARM-Xj A BREAKDOWN IN THE FIELD HAVE TO STOP WORK AND -JO BACK.TO THE HOUSE TO REPAIR THEIR EQUIPMENT, :3UT NOT PRANK. HE HAS THIS TRAILER WHICH HE 3UILT FOR THAT PURPOSE. HE PULLS IT ALONG TO PHE FIELD WITH HIM AND IP HE HAS A BREAKDOWN HI IAS THE TOOLS CLOSE AT HAND TO GET IT RUNNING SLIDE AGAIN. HE HAS A COLLETS FARM WGRKSHSP AT THE mow 3ARN WHERE HE DOES ALL HIS OWN REPAIR WORK EXCEPT W COURSE, THE XIA^GR OVERHAULS, PRANK AMD HIS FAMILY DO MOST OP THEIR OWN WORK EXCEPT WHEN HE DOING CUSTOM WORK AND OP COURSE HE HIRES A HA1TING CREW. BASK WHLN PRANK WAS RAISING SLIDE PAgM*X9 BEES 2L0VBR SEED HE HAD SEVERAL COLONIES OP BEES 3N HAND TO POLINATE THE CLOVER. HE STILL HAS !3EES AND THEY SUPPLY ENOUGH HONEY POR M E FAMILY*, 5. MR. A ND MRS. PRANK WELLS HAVE A HALP AGBE 3F YE&B ROUND GARDEN AND PROM IT AND THEIR MEAT SLIDE FABM-2? SUPPLY SHE PRESERVES ALL THE FAMILY'S POOD NEEDG, SXCEPT OP COURSE, THE STAPLES. A BEEF CN THE FREEZER EACH YEAR AND KILL FIVE HOGS. MB SHE %$ LAYING HEHS WHICH SUfP&Y THE FAMILY'S KG« W LBT CONTINUITY TIME- BY DATE VIDEO AUDIO SEEDS AMD SHE AND DAUGHTER MARY ALSO RAISE ABOUT B R O I L E R S EAGH YEAR,. THOUGH THEY SELL A FEW IN ADDITION OP THEM GO INTO THE FREEZER, SLIDE TO THE POOD WHICH I S FROZEN, MRS, WELLS AND 1 6 OLD MARY ALSO CAN ABOUT k&k QUARTS OF 1'OQD IN J A H S . I Y E YEARS MARY HAS BEEN A k - H CLUB MEMBER FOR AND AMONG HER PROJECTS ARE POOD SHE ALSO CARRIES A E S E R V A T I O N AND GARDENING, LOTHING PROJECT AND HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFICATIQIT SLIDE FARM-22 CABINETS 'ROJECT. MRS. WELLS LIKE TO COOK AND I ? L L TELL SINCE OU F I R S T HAND, S H E ' S AN EXCELLENT COOK. HEY MOVED INTO THIS HOME MR. AND MRS. W..LLS HAVi ! f f i - R 0 O P E D THE HOUSE, PAPERED THE WALIS AMD RE* rfORKED THE FLOORS, THBEE ID^ARS AGO THEY BUILT MRS. WELLS LIKES TO HESE SPACIOUS CABINETS. SLIDE SEWING V AND DOES MOST OP THE SEWISG FOR HERSELF AND Ji*OR CLIFFORD. MARY DOES HER OWN SEWING. MRS. SHE SAYS I F 8HL HAS A HBBBY I T I S SEWING. M K E S HER OWN DRAPES AND CURTAINS TOO, SLIDE FARM* TWO ME1 FRANK S1AYS H I S HOBBY I S H I S LAHD AND I T S WELFARE, JACK TRELOAR, SHOWN HERE WITH FRANK, SAYS FRANK HAS ALWAYS SOUGHT THE ADVICE OF 'THE AGRIOJLTUBAL J.EADERS AND TRIED TO FOLLOW THAT ADVICE. FRANK AYS HE HAS TRIED TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WOULD DO 3 I I S FARM AND H I S FAMILY THE MOST GOOD. HE SAYS JFACK AND MR* MCKEN2IS, THE VOCATIONAL AGRIGUL^URF W LBT CONTINUITY TIME_ BY__ DATE_ VIDEO AUDIO ROPESSOR AT THE COLLEGE HAVE MEANT MUCH TO HIM. TACK PEELS THAT PRANK IS ONE OF THE MOST ?ROGRESSIVE FARMERS II THE AREA AND THAT PEOPLE EN THE COMMUNITY RELY ON HIM TO SET THE PACE FOR EMPBOVED FARM PRACTICES. FRANK'S HOPE IS TO ONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND WHAT HE HAS. CAMERA OH F/M ILY HE WELLS FAMILY BELONGS TO THE BELVEDERE CHURCH )? CHRIST IN JACKSON WHERE THEY ATTEND REGULARLY ND WHERE MRS. WELLS HELPS WITH THE VACATION , , , HIBLE SCHOOL EACH SUMMER. SHE IS ALSO A MEMBER >F THE PALESTIHE HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB AND HAS BEEN FOR 22 YEARS. SHE IS A PAST PRESIDENT AMD TOE PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB AMD IS PRESENTLY IT?S ARDEN LEADER. THE WELLS FAMILY BELONGS TO THE 'ARM BUREAU AND THE RAYMOND SCHOOL P.T.A. WHERE M AND CLIFFORD ATTEND SCHOOL. EVERY ONE F THE AGRICULTURAL LEADERS I HAVE TALKED TO iNDS COUNTY HAS SAID THIS IS TRULY AN 'AMILY.. .A FAMILY THAT MEANS MUCH TO THIS COUNT*. NOW I WANT YOU TO MEET THEM, 1. HOW MANY TIMES HAS FIRE GIVEN YOU A SETBACK, 2, WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST JOB? 3# IS DEMAND FOR CUSTOM WORK INCREASING OR DECREASING? *U MRS, WHAT HAS HELPED YOU MOST IN YOTJR HOME MAKING PROGRAM?
