The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-10-14
FILA Officials Tour
County Wednesday
w. {. Strider. Other
Co. Men, Visit Forms
With Stute Officials

"A tour OF Holmes county farms
and homes under the Farm Loan
program was made Wednesday
by local FILA officials, together
with interested agricultural work.
ers and business men, and State
FILA committeeman. Meeting at
the intersection of highways IL
and 81, north of Pickens, the
Holmes county tour began with
a visit to the residence of Bailey
Jones, colored, southwest of Lex
ington. This was one of two homes
visited on the cross-country OBJ
~servation trip, with the other
stop on Horseshoe plantation at
the Claud Harthcock residence.
Both farm homes toured are un-
der the Farm loan plan.
Making the tour were w. E.
Strider, county supervisor, and
W. L. Sails, assistant county
supervisor of Holmes county;
William Moses of, Weathersby
Chevrolet company, who took
pictures; Lutte E. Ellison, county
committeeman; Aubrey Carpen-
ter, district agent, Mississippi Ex-
tension service; Walter Page.
Starkville, r. A. Patterson, Way
side, w. P. Sudduth, Starkville.
F. c. Willcoxon, Vicksburg, state
committeeman; W. H. Merrill and
| Dallas c. Vandevere, assistant
state directors of FILA, and T. B.
Fatherree, director.
The Harthcock home which has
i recently been built, is modern,
with lights, hot and cold water.
bathroom fixtures, butane gas
system and attic'fan. a spokesman
reported.
The farm consists of 68 acres OF
land, purchased through the FILA
in 1912, from which the major
income is cotton, with other in
! come from cattle, beans and
truck.
It was observed that MIR.
Harthcock does not owe an ope-
rating loan, and is making a pay
| ment of $1,000. on his farm from
| the proceeds of this years crop.
He hopes to pay for the farm
with the next four years, it was
| said.
The negro home visited con-
sists of lib acres bought in 1941,
with 40 years to pay the $4,620.
Beginning on the program with
a net worth of approximately
$500, Jones is said by officials
making the tour to have a net
worth of $1,000, and expects to
| pay for his farm in full from
this years crop. To date, Jones,
! who is 81 years old and has a
wife, Carrie Jones, 81, and two
girls and one boy, owes only a
balances of $1,326.
His income was found to be
diversified-from cattle, hogs,
cotton, beans, chickens and gene
raj truck produce.
He has in his pasture. 19 head
of beef cattle, consisting of one
registered bull, 20 head of hogs,
and has recently sold several
head of cattle. He is said by Of
ficials making the tour, to have
a good modern home, a good pas
ture, with land well-terraced.
Other stops on the tour were
briefly at the Lexington FLA of
flee, where the office filing sys-
tenn and county maps were check
ed. From Mr.. Harthcock's farm,
which was second on the itine-
rary, the group continued to
Greenwood for lunch at Midway
hotel. State committeeman and
Director Fatherree were con-
tinuing into Sunflower and into
Laudefdale counties on similar
tours.
MIR. Strider reports that about
80 new homes have been built
in the county during the past
year under the farm loan plan.
and that this large number Of
homes under the plan perhaps
justifies state officials interest in
raEino the tour