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  The ranch is located on Highway 87 North.
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  The picturesque ranch is a cattle farm.
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  The home is centrally placed on a hill.
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  Bennie Barnes visits the Brown family.
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  Luke demonstrates practice roping.
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  Bennie Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce stands next to the sign for his new office park.
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  Bennie Barnes and film liason Tom Roush display a jar of pigs lips.
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  Customers buy bags of peanuts at the Holland barn.
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  The front of the farm faces Kleinschmidt Road. The deciduous trees are pecans. There is a grove along the property line on the east side of the farm. The Heil home is a small craftsman cottage in the center of the frame.
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  A dirt road runs alongside of the east field. Rolls of irrigatioin equipment and outbuildings can be seen in the right side of the frame. The greens can be seen int he center. There is a utility line alongside on the far left.
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  An abandoned farmstead nestles among pecans and oaks beside the highway.
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  Piles of watermelons are purchased from July to August at the barn.
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  Bruce and his family have a complete peanut harvest from planting through boiling.
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  Cotton harvesting equipment sits on the edge of the field by the barn.
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  Diane Holland cleans the Silver King corn. She is planning a cream style corn recipe.
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  The cleaned peas are packed for sale.
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  Holland Farms produces a variety of crops throughout the year. Listed below are prices for vegetables that are currently being harvested. For further information, call - 675-6876.
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  Yellow crookneck squash grow in the garden south of the main barn.
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  Hundreds of watermelons are sold at the barn every summer beginning in late June.
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  Americans are eating more peanuts overall; more peanut butter and more snack peanuts.Total peanut consumption has been on the upward trend since 1996. Snack peanuts are up by 13.3 percent over the past year.
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  The antique shop is secluded in the wood off Hickory Hammock Road.
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  There are interesting old signs on the green barn.
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  The old barn was built with heart-pine lumber.
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  Mayor Barnes carries his fish to the scales for weigh-in.
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  Charles Holland assists Bruce in the sales department.
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  Walnut Hill is an area of gently rolling land settled by Mennonite farmers from Kansas.
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  The farm is located on Highway 97.
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  The house harmonizes with its surroundings because of low broad proportions and lack of ornamentation.
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  The facade of the home faces west. There is an overstory of large water oaks. An adjoining garage apartment can be seen at the end of the driveway with the barn immediately to the rear.
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  The style of architecture is often referred to as Craftsman. These dwellings display a fine degree of craftsmanship and are constructed of materials left as close as possible to their natural state.
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  The walls are laid in quarried stone.
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  The conical building is used for drying corn.
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  The lean-to on the side of the barn is used as a chicken coop.
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  The driveway off Highway 97 is on the left of the photograph.
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  There are three main buildings in the complex. The office is on the left, the grain elevator is immediately behind the office building and the fertilizer house is on the right of the photograph.
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  The Van Pelt Dairy Farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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  Hundreds of acres of feed corn are grown along Highway 97.
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  In between corn fields there are pastures were the dairy cows graze.
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  Corn fields front Highway 97 for several miles.
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  The south end of the Van Pelt Dairy Farm is bordered by Gobbler Road. There are approximately three miles of corn fields along Gobbler Road which end to the east on Sandy Hollow Road.
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  The heifer barn is on the right. The milking barn is in the center of the frame.
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  The cows are leaving the milking barn. They are milked in shifts of 16 cows. The entire herd is processed between 1:40 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and again in the afternoon beginning at 1:00 p.m. finishing around 5:30 p.m..
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  There are three milkers who work in two shifts every day.
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  Jan McCune places the milking machine on the cow’s udders. The machine pulls a 30 pound pressure to complete the evacuation process in 5 to 15 minutes depending on the quanitity of milk.
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  Jan gets a “kiss” from her favorite Mama cow, No. 62. Cows wear collars and are named by number.
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  No. 62 is a friendly cow. The cows are in a holding pen, waiting to be called into the milking barn.
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  Cleaning the milking barn floor during shifts is a continous task.
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  Jan explains the gestation tabulator. The cycles and pregnancy of each cow is plotted.
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  George Van Pelt demonstrates the process of artificial insemination.
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  The ranch has a typical red barn.
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  5 year old John Roush gets a riding lesson.
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  A ranch is a great place to be a kid.
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  John loved his lesson and was quite the little rider.
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  Trees line the old stagecoach route between Pensacola and Mobile.
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  The ranch has a lower end that is wetter and darker.