Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of improper management of Lovegrass. With W.C. Stewart, District Cooperator. Cattle grazing five year old stand of Weeping Lovegrass. The Lovegrass needs to be shredded for more uniform grazing. Cattle are grazing areas where the grass has been kept short, showing the nedd for shredding the old strands of Lovegrass. OK-1292-4.
Date: March 15, 1961
Creator: Leonard, Claude M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

F. S. Marlon's Planned Gully Control and Field Improvements

Photograph of “Water passing over farm pond spillway draining into incipient gullies at bottom of slope. Spillway will be shaped, gullies sloped, dam raised and dam and spillway sodded to Bermuda grass.”
Date: October 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sheep Grazing on Contour Furrowed Grasses

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man in the background watching the sheep grazing on Bermuda, grama grasses, and buffalograss in contour furrowed pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Sheep grazing Bermuda in contour furrowed pasture for conservation of soil and moisture and to promote growth of desirable grasses. Principle grasses are buffalo, Grama grasses. Furrows constructed in spring of 1941.”
Date: October 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Landrum Gully Control

Photograph of Edgar Landrum standing in front of a gully in natural draw. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Gully in natural draw. Banks were sloped and channel solid sodded to Bermuda in spring of 1941. Drainage area from cultivated field approx. 60 A. Mr. Landrum (in photograph) says this gully was very active and threatening his cultivated land but since establishment of Bermuda erosion has been practically stabilized."
Date: October 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History