Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88Between Turnrows • 21 Sherman recalls that his interest in agriculture was first sparked in 1948 when a local county agent gave him a bag of Funk’s Hybrid Seed Corn at a 4-H meet- ing. “We took that bag home and Daddy planted it, and it made about fifty bushels per acre while the old open-pollinated variety that we also planted only made about twenty-five or thirty,” Sherman says. “That really motivated me because I saw the power of scientific agriculture when I was only ten or eleven years old.” Like most Arkansas boys, Sherman’s interest in agriculture only increased as he grew up working the family farm and making side money unloading boxcars of chicken feed for two dollars a ton. In high school, Sherman became an active mem- ber of the FFA (Future Farmers of America), receiving his State Farmer Degree in 1956. It was about this time that his high school agriculture teacher began to sug- gest that he attend the University of Arkansas to complete his education. After some convincing, Sherman applied for and was accepted to the university. He recalls that his mother and father drove him to Fayetteville and dropped him off at his rooming house. “That was a lonely feeling. I hadn’t ever been on my own before. It was a mile from my boarding house to the cafeteria, and I was there waiting on the doorstep the next morning when the cooks got there! I majored in livestock because I already had a Registered Black Poland China herd of about forty or fifty head. They were high dollar, so I majored in animal husbandry. That was when I got on the livestock judg- ing team. “I appreciated that so very much. We judged shows in Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, and at the Kansas City Royal. Then we judged the international show in Chica- go where we placed eighth out of forty teams. Well, when we got back to Fayetteville the head of the agriculture department was waiting on us because they’d never placed anywhere close to that before. It was a proud moment. “That summer, 1957, I scouted cotton for boll weevils in Clay County, and Open pit rice well, circa 1914, Ziegenhorn Farm east of Fisher, Arkansas. Left to right: Ray Rexraod, Al Ziegenhorn, Mabel Ziegenhorn, Jona Ziegenhorn, (baby) Ralph Ziegenhorn. Open pit wells were the first method of irrigation for growing rice. The wells were dug approximately forty feet deep with shovels and the dirt was brought to the surface by sand buckets. A certrifugal pump placed in the bottom of the well produced water for the rice crop.