This is Buster Jack with a follow-up interview with Dog Boy from the Pulaski County P-Farm. Now as you recall last week, we met Dog Boy, we found out why he was at the P-Farm, and we found out where his name came from. And this is a follow-up interview, so stay tuned. I think you'll like what he has to say.
This is Dog Boy down here. Dog Boy, this is Buster Jack, and we're doing a follow-up phone call with you. Can you talk to us right now? Well, sure, Buster Jack, I'm happy to do it.
I'll take a break. Well, I know you need a break. I know you can always use a break. And we had quite a few calls, Dog Boy, when we interviewed you last week.
And people were very interested in knowing more about you. So let me ask you a question right now that maybe you could, and it would really enlighten our listeners. Yes, you know. Buster Jack, if I can answer my wheel, buddy.
Okay. Now, I wonder if you would mind just talking about yesterday for a moment, and starting with the time that you got up until you went to bed, and just tell us everything that happened during yesterday. I think our listeners would be very interested in knowing about that. I can do that, Buster Jack.
I'll tell you what, but it's certainly not a fun day, but if I can enlighten them, I'll do my best because we only get one break during the week down here, and that's a radio station. I'm required to broadcast radio station down here, but first thing of the morning, five o'clock in the morning. They come in and ring as big old gong. Actually all it is is a real mop of wagon wheel.
And they hover out as loud as they can. Dog boys, chicken boys, washer boys. I mean, wagon boys and wash women. They holler those four things every morning.
Quarter of chicken boys. Chicky, chicken boys. Oh, I say, okay, go ahead. We got a huge chicken house down there by 2,500 chickens in there.
And they calling out the people that work in the laundry. That's washer women, because they're not women, believe me. And then the wagon boys, that's the boys that drive the wagons out in the fields, you know, when we're pulling corn and such as that. And dog boys, that's the ones that folks take care of these little stupid bloodhounds down here.
And also that's what they do for a thing, five o'clock. And then you've got 15 minutes to get up beside your bed and get ready to march over to the little mess all over here, right across from the lock up here. And you'll have biscuits and gravy and grits. And I mean, I'm up.
That's every morning. Every morning. Biscuits, gravy and grits. And then you've got to be out in the field.
I'm six o'clock. You've got 15 minutes to eat. And then you get out in the fields. They line you up, you know, two but two take you out the field.
And basically, Buster, Jack, you work all day on whatever particular thing it is at this time. Now they're picking peas. And we do that pretty much all day long, you know. And it's just a matter of it's like working on a farm.
That's what it is. Only it's really, really hard work. And you really, really have a don't go petting the dogs or anything. I can tell you that.
And then the workday is over. It's basically, you know, they like the dark. Of course, you go in and know them to have greens and black eyed peas. And it's supper, you know, basically, Buster, Jack, you get greens and black eyed peas for supper.
Or maybe, if we had maybe corn, if we happened to be harvesting at that time, it kind of ends where they grow everything in the world down here. And then it's dark and you go in, you smoke big lights out at 10 o'clock. You smoke those sleep. Nobody goes sleeping 10 hardly.
But I pretty much go sleep pretty quick. I was tired. You know, you work hard. But that's pretty much a day after day after day after day.
Won't be too much longer than we'll be pulling corn. And that's, you know, any change is good, you know, and it will be cutting wood for the winter. Work on a road cruise during the summer. You know, it's pretty much a day after day.
Same old thing. I guess the reason I'm not as good at talking about it is because it's just same old thing over and over to me. Of course, the people out there, I'm glad they're interested in it. You know, I hope I'm in light of a little bit.
You got any questions? You know, I'll try to answer them. Well, what animals are at the peep farm, dog boy, that you all had to think care of? You told me about the dogs.
And then you told me about the, did you say you had hogs down there? Well, we have hogs, cows, we have beef, you know, and chickens, of course. Lots of chickens, well, lots of hogs, lots of cows, you know. And they take milk into the county hospital and actually county jail too.
They do it every day, you know, they milk these cows. There's a bunch of animals down here, a bunch of jack, a bunch of them. What do you do with the crops that you harvest? Where do they go?
Well, you see, the black eyed peas in the turnip green, like that, we eat those down here. Now, the lucrative crops, they go into the county hospital, county jail, all forms of county government, you know, get the meat, they get the milk, they get the eggs, we don't get eggs here. It's 25, 100 chickens, we don't get eggs. So all the, all forms of county government that, you know, we feed them.
That's what they do with the crops. Do you get any of the meat that you raised down there? We get meat once a year of Christmas, sure do. So they ship almost all the meat out.
Oh, yeah, they, they do ship all the meat. See, they're trucks going in. We have two trucks here going to Little Rock every day, like Francis, like I said, they take the milk, they go to the hospitals, any forms of county government that you can name, you know, that's deep, we feed them. We don't keep any meat down here.
We just, we get some pork at Christmas. Well, dog boy, I know you don't have much time and I realize that we're taking your break and I really do appreciate your. Oh, oh, no, that's fine. I'm happy to, happy to have somebody talk to you during my break here and I appreciate all the people, I appreciate you doing the interview.
I appreciate all the people. I've got a few minutes. You got any more questions? Feel free.
Well, I'm going to talk to you about the radio station and a subsequent interview. But right now, I want to tell you that we've had a lot of calls. People are fascinated, you know, and I use the term fascinated. I think they're, I think they're really interested and I think they're concerned about treatment.
Of the you and the other people on the peep arm. And so I'm glad we can enlighten them. Well, look, Mr. Jackie, if you will, as far as the treatment down here, I can't elaborate a lot.
I get a lot of trouble. It's not a nice place. Let me say that, but if I elaborate very much on that, you know, I get in love trouble. So I probably have to spend a whole bunch of time in the hole.
I don't want to do that. Hopefully me just saying it's not a nice place will not told any ripple because it's not, they don't want it to be a nice place. But can you elaborate any on the type of punishment that they use down there? Oh, you either.
Well, of course you do spend, you do have to spend time in the hole. I've done that. And as far as physical punishment, I probably shouldn't go into that because I don't want to get, I don't want to get in trouble in that way because it's a rough way to go. Okay, well, I'm not going to ask you any more about that.
The final question, Del Boer, for today is, what are you just mainly working in the crops? Is that primarily what your job is? Yeah. So you don't get to take care of any of the animals, do you?
I do not. No, I'm not. Those are jobs that are given to the trustees. And I'm, I know I'm not a trustee.
I'm I work in the fields. You might call it labor. It is really hard work, but that's, you know, when it comes fall, we get to start cutting wood. I don't mind that bad.
I kind of enjoy the wood cutting part. It gets cool weather. And let me tell you something, summertime down here hard. That it sounds like at one time that you were a trustee because you got to be a dog boy.
And one time, is that correct? Yes, I did. But I'll tell you, but Jack, I tried to escape. That's why I built up so much, that's why I built so much overlapping time is I tried to escape several times and, you know, it didn't work out.
So I don't get to be out there. I get to be a trustee again someday. Well, I'm not going to take any more of your time right now, dog boy, but I will be calling you from time to time. You've told me that, that you don't mind talking to us.
And I know our listeners are interested. So I want to say goodbye to you. And I'll be talking to you again probably next week. Well, I hope so, but Jack, I look forward to it.
It's nice to break me. That's what I want to talk to. And also just tell the people out there, you know that I'm not that bad a guy and I enjoy talking to you and hope I'm in like them somewhat. Okay, dog boy, take care of yourself.
It will be talking later. Thanks so much, but Jack. All right. Goodbye.
Goodbye sir.