Henry S. Clountz
Farm
Herman
Clountz bought the land from the Texas
Nursery in the 1940s.
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Aerial picture of the Henry
Sherman Clountz place
on Spout Springs Road
WEST
Clountz
house
located in middle of picture.
The aerial 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.
EAST
The Texas Nursery land,
located at top left, was
still producing lots of crepe
myrtle trees and roses, which are
blooming in this picture. The land to
the north with the large
round pond belonged to the
Ashmore's. It now
belongs to the Short-Siebman
family.
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.
ca 1950s
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Henry & Florence Clountz
expanding their home in the
1950's and
later they adopted Natalie
and had happy times
together.
Henry
& Florence's early
years.
Natalie's
Birth parents
Natalie
as a Clountz
Henry
S Clountz's Funeral.
Snowstorm
at the Farm
Florence's
later years.
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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.
Stories of Life
on the Farm for Florence
& Natalie
When
Time Stood Still in
Pottsboro or Stitches
back in Time
Old
Smokey, the Wood Stove
Food
Doesn't Come From the
Store & County
Roads
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1940's Article about the Henry S Clountz
farm
DAIRYING AIDS
FARMER IN STRUGGLE TO REHABILITATE BADLY
WORN LAND
"Who says you
can't make a living on a small farm?"
demands Henry 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
meanwhile, 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.
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