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Henry S. Clountz Farm 1946 Herman Clountz bought the land from the Texas Nursery in the 1940s.   Aerial picture of the Henry Sherman Clountz place on Spout Springs Road Clountz
house located in middle of picture. The areial picture
was taken in the early to middle 1950s, probably about 1952,
before
the
great floods of 1957. There were some deep ditches cut on
both sides of
the property by the 1957 flood. ca 1950sWEST  EAST The land on the other side of the road, on the bottom of the picture, belonged to Wilson & Ada Lee (Moser) Jones. Ada Lee's mother was Doll Clountz Moser.  Henry & Florence Clountz expanding their home. 1969  Natalie with Daddy, Henry Clountz 1969, not too long before he died. Standing in front of the new house he built for us; we never got to move into it.  DAIRYING AIDS FARMER IN STRUGGLE TO REHABILITATE BADLY WORN LAND "Who says you can't make a living on a small farm?" demands Herman Sherman Clountz of Pottsboro as he surveys the 16 arid acres that comprise his landholdings. Under the circumstances you think, it looks possible but not probable, but you don't say so. And presently Mr. Clountz states, quoting a few statistics, "You're glad you didn't stick your neck out." Mr. Clountz, who has been a farmer around Pottsboro all his life, bought his present farm 5 years ago. His land is so "tired" you wonder how he kept it from blowing away, but Mr. Clountz managed. For the past 2 years he planted peanuts on his own 16 acres, and last fall he got 30 bushels to the acre at $2.75 a bushel. This year he's planting cotton. And meanwhite, Mr. Clountz has turned dairyman. Last March he borrowed some money and bought 7 Jerseys. Following the recommendations of Mr. A.C. Casey, Kraft Food field agent, he built a rain shelter and a tiny milk house with a concrete floor over a rock foundation. Two stalls, a stove and the highest standards of cleanliness make it one of the best milk houses in Grayson County, according to Mr. Casey. For pasture land, Mr. Clountz rented 130 acres, and for supplementary feeding he has been giving his herd ground oats and corn with cotton meal in it and a 16 per cent dairy feed and peanus hay he grinds himself. The result? In a 294-day period the Clountz herd has averaged 219 pounds of milk, as compared with a national average of 225 pounds of milk, and a Texas average of 134 pounds. From milk sales of Kraft alone, Mr. Clountz has paid off every cent he owes on the cows in less than a year. As farm hands Clountz has his wife and 9-year-old son, and he figures he could do a lot worse. Mrs. Clountz makes sure that the milk house is spotless and helps with the hoeing, and when necessary she helps milk. The rest Mr. Clountz has done himself, by scientific methods of dairying and hard work.  BIOGRAPHY INDEX Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |