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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a pitting plow made from an old one-way plow. The grass seeding drill is hitched to the plow. One time over does the pitting and the seeding. TX-47-579.
Date:
April 18, 1951
Creator:
Fenner, O. L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of pasture. Luther Baggett, second from left, and his neighbors now the value of good pasture.LA-61, 957.
Date:
April 5, 1951
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Wade George examines hegira strip crop. He grows four rows of hegira to eight of peanuts. A rye cover crop and peanut hay left on the ground provide additional erosion protection. In 1949 and 1950 George had a 50-bushel-an-acre peanut yield. George has planted cover crops on his goober [synonym for "peanut'] acreage every year for 20 years. During that span of time, he has put in strip crops each year but one. III-12CT. TX-47-545.
Date:
April 17, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician W. A. Morgan examining shaped and Bermuda-sodded collective outlet. Sodding was done in the spring of 1950. III - 7CT. TX-47, 546.
Date:
April 17, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of R.D. Walker, right, and John O. Simpson, SCS technician, left, in a strip crop of sudangras and guar [ a legume--aka, the Lond bean, or Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, the source of guar gum]. Walker gets additional erosion protection on his peanut lands from rye and vetch cover crop and by leaving peanut hay on the ground. III-12CT. TX-47-556.
Date:
April 16, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History