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 8822 • Between Turnrows the next summer I scouted in Craighead County, where I discovered the first south- western corn borer ever found there. When I did that they stuck a pin in the map back at the school, and every entomologist at the University of Arkansas knew who I was. The year after that Dr. Lincoln sent me to the farm at the state penitentiary, where, under his direction, I sprayed DDT for boll worms and methyl parathion for boll weevils. That was the first large-scale test of methyl parathion in the field. They made a record crop that year. “All these things taught me to think on my feet and to have confidence in myself. I was the first Cullum that ever went to college, much less graduate.” Sherman would need all these skills in 1960, when he started as a county agent in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Sherman says, “I went to work in the largest grain and cotton growing county in the country with an animal husbandry degree!” The next decade-and- a-half were busy for Sherman. He met and married Linda and began a family, joined the Army National Guard, transferred to Cross County with the extension ser- vice, left the extension service to manage the new fertilizer operation at Taylor Seed Company, and finally ended up as the assistant manager of the seed & chemi- cal division at Lee Wilson, Co., in Wilson, Arkansas. From 1967 to 1974, Sherman Cullum was the assistant manager for Lee Wilson & Co. Seed & Chemical Division in Wilson, Arkansas.