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Show In These United States StatesBought Bought Alabama Alobomo Farm Form in ' 39 ; Has Hos Mortgage fill All Paid off 011 Now NowFLORENCE all said Louis Loms Ohve OlIve could never nev FLORENCE , ALAThey ALA -They They - They . . _ - - - i l a 1 n/l n l / * A A farm fr % t v * t the theFalrVleW TM c * . , 1f . he . bought that old 120 acre In er el get Kt.1 Kt1 . , out uui . of ui . debt u.eui ueui u ii.c iic u u & " < " " - - - - - Fairview FalrVleW community commumty But he bought it anyway , back in 1939and inon inonFairview 19.39 1939 19.39iiirl . and -ii-irl ii irl - - the t tio io mortlale mrvr + ! rraffo ! IS 1 < 3 nOW DEnd paid offr off * Mrs Mabel .A A . Anderson derson assocfate associatefarm farm security administration admimstratlon super supervisor supervisor visor recently told Mr Olive Ollve s story storyin storyin in an article published by the Flor Florence Florence ence Herald She wrote wrotc wrotcIn wroteIn In July 1939 Mr Olive filed an anappl1catlon anapplication appl1catlon with the FSA for a loan loanto loanto to purchase a farm a farm that thathad thathad had been under mortgage for the thepast thepast past 43 years A loan of $4 4 $ 080 for forpurchase forpurchase purchase of the land and construc constructlon construetion tlon of a house and other bulldmgs bulldmgswas buildingswas was granted grantedThe grantedThe The year before the purchase purchaseonly purchaseonly only 22 acres were in cl cultivation7 tlvaton ! 7 In cotton and 15 in corn but dur during durIng ing the first year of Mr Olive sown sownershlp s ownl ership ershlp he terraced the farm plant plant- planted planted - ed 13 acres m soil building bulldmg crops cropscleared cropscleared cleared a good portion of the land landto landto to get in a fairly good crop and put putout putout out a nice DIce orchard The plan called calledfor calledtor for a liva live at home program and andthiS andthis thiS was followed always with a sur surplus surplus plus produced for marketTills market | This Tills year when food has beena been ' a problem the Olives Ollves have 1 450 450pounds 450pounds pounds of meat 500 quarts of ofcanned ofcanned canned fruit and vegetables 200 200bushels 200bushels bushels of potatoes 10 bushels of ofseet ofs'aeet ofsaeet s\\eet s eet \ ' potatoes 1 bushel of dried driedfrUit driedfruit frUit and plenty of milk and eggs eggsBesIdes eggsBesides BesIdes food tor for home use they have have600 600 bushels of oI corn 17 tons of hay hayhogs hayhogs hogs tor for another year 4 cows 5 5he1fers 5heifers he1fers 150 leghorn hens and 3 head headof headof of work stockPlans stock stockPlans Plans have been made tor for an another another other year by planting plantmg 4 acres lD lDclover inclover clover and rye 10 acres of vetch vetchand vetchand and 8 acres of hay according accordmg to soil soilconservation soilconservation conservation plansHoward plans plansHoward Howard Olive the oldest son sonhas sonhas has studied vocational agrIculture agricultureat at Central high school and with the theaid theaid aid of his teacher has landscaped landscapedthe the home and is maintain mamtam ng the thegrounds thegrounds grounds as part of his school pro program program gram ) I VET BUYS FAR'I FARI ' John JohnDiffin I Diffin World War II veterar IS ISnow now the owner or an 88 acre dairy dairyfarm farm near l\Ianchester l Ianchester \ l\Id l Id \ ills illspurchase purchase was ade through the theaId aId or the Farm Security ad admiwstrahon miwstrahon Above he IS shown shownlooking looking over bls acres |
