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Negro farm housing
rundown, is now being i'?
Iv as a result of sound
available to farm familii
iration of the I". S. Dep
Not only is the housing
look, inside and ou'? with
jathroom* and?lo'v: :n hi '
purpose uii' ty room*, but
iijir also i.i loak.u/ i;p more :
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observations pre has
what I saw during a recent
week tour of rural area* ;i
ginia, North Carolina, < b
Mississippi, and Louisiana.-Altogether,
I visited ll?* {
es whom the Farmers Horn
helped to get oh tinir ft*, t,
in their comfortable homes
heaad the stories of their
ems ami their triumphs, I \
over their farms, observing
soil and water conservation
? tices they had o?t?i>iisho:i,_
as terraces, contour tillage,
crops and drainages systei
saw, too, their improved pi
with grade and purebred
stock grazing in them.
Under sheds out of the t
r.M At) Ollt t V?rt ^!old .1 ?-? ?? A
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he ihorsepoWer for spring
ing were tractor3 purchased
loans from the Farmers
And there were combines nei
there, and huybalers and ha
trueks and peanut pickers,
In addition to giving Fa
guidance in planning sound
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LK FARM HOMES an* on the increei
I'. S. Department of Agrieulture. T<
i, La. Standing- with Mr. Vernon, cen
lovd and Countv Atrent T. ,T. Butler
s of the oats growing in front of the
\hart. dairy farmers of Louisville Chi
dust inv his shrohherv: I.onkimr nt t?>
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tlren, Clara Anne. o, of Pickens. .Miss
k. Bottom, center, are .Mrs. John K.
r session in the bathroom,-of'their I"-11
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mes Geiting
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:RMATs BRISCOE ~ ~ l
in the South, although still mostly
tee-lifted at an increased pace part- t
long-time credit aid being made G
es by the Farmers Home Adminisartment
of Agriculture.
on a lenis of Fanning, the Farmers ,
til< 1 Home also makes loans with whieh |
'ti?families may?put the pla-nninpr in
farm- to effect. ^
haijjr In four out of five of the homes ,
-I visited the head of the household ^
ed on uas relatively younjr ? in his ,
,W() late -Qjs, MO's or early 40's. A numi
Yir- ')tM them were veterans who t
'oi'.'da 'Ku' sei'n service overseas during
j World War II. And all of them ^
fcnnili- were ambitious aft'd determined to
e has niake {rood. ^ t
1 -at! Take. Veteran Percy F.verson of c
ami f isputanta. Ya. He was develop- i
proh- 'n<r and fencing improved pastures t
vail- ed ' I. dino clover, orchard, err ass and ^
th,. RspcUe.-.a with part of an $8,000 .
nr.,0- loin he mo received front Farmers c
iUdme io build a home' and" a Tmi'n
oove; iam' to improve his farm. .
us. I ' The pastures were) coming alotig ,
stures J fine, hut there wasn't a cow in j
lit.-a*. (sight. Mr. Kverson is going into ,
livestock production right this ]
.veath- time. He is getting his feed supply <
viding first, thet). he'll buy .i?me cows. He (
plow- went into livestock raising wrong t
I with shortly after the war. He bought \
^onie. three Hereford breed cows andvhad ,
re and to sell them within two months be- j
Ig-tor cause his grazing ran out and he ]
too. 'had no money to buy feed for them, j
timers vVillie :/e<- Amerson of Barton, 'j
sys i Ga., says proudly that he one of n
ra-4 8*^6*98
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ise partly as a result of credit i
>p. ieft, is the home of Mr. and
Ler, by his tractor in front, of h
Top,, i t ).tor. are .Mr. an?\\
r'r old house at, riirht of thvir i
ii. and Farmers Home Represei
levision at bottom, left, are Air,
. The Malones have already pa
Greenlee and two of her chik
net. .wiss.. invni-.' t necking" on tl
armors of Cars >11, \*a.
he !>e-t farmers in all (Jeortria, ly
mdthe production tin his lhd-ucre us
aim proves it. Last year he sold ve
J'J.Too worth of buttermilk". door to fr
loor. S2.4H0 "\vortfi of hogs. and eh
d.XdO worth of cotton. His hog co
arrowing; houses' and pastures ares
up-to-date as those at 'the ye
"SD.Vs Beltsville Research ten- (L
er: and he has a State Dairy lot
ihow trophy to speak for the eh
uality of his dairy herd. <JU
Louisiana's farriier of the year, th
'larence Brou.ssard of Lafayette, ve
oats 1.2d0 pounds of longeo tton
o the acre in an area where most at
ai mers are glad to tret 4u0 pounds he
hit ill-. Broussard is no one-crop da
aimer. In addition to producing 2d loi
ales of cotton to 10 acres, he si:
aise-s 2.000 hushels of sweet pota- gj
oe< a year, and SI.000 worth of
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ayenne pepper, not to mention his n<i
loprs and beef cattle. al!
'the Broussards have one daugher
at Tuskegee and another at re
Southern University. S4x more will jn
>e heading for college later from fa
heir trim, white ? frame house ar
vhich sits in a beautifully land- er
>caped yard that stretches away ^
!00-feet to the road. ^
In fac-t-iU-waa-the housing of all
he things I saw which impressed w
ne most. Looking at some of the
louses from which the families had
uoved, it was hard for me to rea- ^
ize that their former occupants
:ould have-had dreams in the back 'e
>f their heads of the kind of homes f
.hey have built. Yet here were the m
tomes: neat, clean, and as modern ',l
is any city dwelling. Cli
Briscoe Stackhouse of Fairmont,
M. C., for example, had two bath- r<
ooms and a knotty pine multi- ,e?
purpose utility room in the 67-foot m
rambler he had built for his fami- tj
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Tew one. Top. rijrlu. are Mr.
itative Josephus Johnson,
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id their 19.")? annual ndte't'
iren, Helen Joyce and Sami
leir home-canning in their i
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of' 11. Members of the family
e the utility room to prepare
potables 'for_t,aiminy: and home
eczing, and to wash up a n d
ange their clothes when they
me from .the field.
Irr Carson, Ya.f 1 visited ddar-oltl
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
aves who had made an old house
)k like new. In the spotless kit
en they had their record hook
t and were taking inventory of
e jars and jars of fruits and
getables Mrs. Graves had canned.
Sitting by the television in the
tractive living room of his Picn.sf
Miss., home at the end of the
y were 31-year-old John H."Mane
and his wife and one of their
< children.. Out in their pastures
azed 33 head of Hereford cattle,
had already paid his 11)57 annual
>te to Farmers Home 10 months
lead.
As 1 sit here at my typewriter,
ferring to my notes, and recallg
my pleasant visits with these
milies arffr with the State, area,
id county Officials of the Farm's
Home who are working with
em, I wish I could say that all
e other farrTTFr TrrT^trring jiui
ell, and 4 the problems of small
w-income farmers has has been
dved. But this simnlv L. m.t t
he mass of small farmers, es?cially
Negro farmers, still earn
ss than $lt()00 a.year and live-in
labhy houses. However, inereasgly
these houses stand empty, or
jlging with hay for acres of beof
ittle.
The families I visited were not a
'presentative sample. They were
camples of one asp?rt of Governent
help in promoting familyfarms,
but mora than that,
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av, May U 1957 : -??
ip>r nved
Arlrninistrat i<?n
farmers of ML'
Representative
slu<1in. Lie * ~
ami Mrs. Frtsl .
left; Mr. Locknut
one of their.
rorii the sale of
nel in a teeth- ,
modem- kitchen,
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they were symbols el' hope an-.i'dU
reetionul beacons for their communities.
These' homes, were* the
center of interest during the. observance
of National Home Demonstration
Week, April 28, to
May 4. Neighbors visited .them to
get pointers and stimulation for
their own dreams. ^
Last year the Farmers Homo
made loans totaling $250 million to
y:l,0U0 similar farm families to buy
or develop family-type farms, or
t() DUrC Hhso Piniinnipnt 1 i
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atul supplies with which to operate
their farms, or to huild homes and
farm buildings. In addition, it made
emergency loans of $80 million to
some 45,000 other farmers.
Th? repayment record of the borrower.;
has been outstanding. For
exampl.e, in 1050, Farmers Home
collected in principal an interest
$202 million. Although some of the
loans jire made for periods up to
40 years, thousands of farmers
have" paid out well ahead of sche*
m.u
In its 20-vear history, Farmers
Home has loaned about V'UO mil
lion to gome 275,000 Negro farm ?
families. About 10,000 of these rereived
loans to buy farms and build
homes.
In the past 56 years mortality
from tuberculosis has decline!
from 100 to 8 per 100,000 population,
according to Health Information
Foundation. While this is
'remark?bVp progress, the Foundai
tion notes, tuberculosis is still a
igreat health problem, with 100,000
new oases reported in the TJaitei
, State* ia 1955.