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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a rice field, poorly trained. Note rice field equipment. Land being prepared for rice production in April. TX-45, 071.
Date:
March 2, 1949
Creator:
Davis, David O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of bees from this row of 23 hives are pollinating 35 acres of hairy vetch from which seed crop will be harvested. Bee pollination increases seed production. TX-45. 667.
Date:
July 2, 1949
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the combining of year old stand of King Ranch strain of Yellow Bluestem. Seed yield was estimated at 35 to 40 pounds an acre. TX-43, 989.
Date:
October 2, 1947
Creator:
Richards, Allen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the hammermilling of blue grama seed harvested with a drum type seed stripper. About 11,000 pounds of blue grama seed (uncleaned) were harvested on the H. D. Cornell ranch this fall [i.e., 1950]. Cornell will use part of the seed on his ranch to reseed denuded areas and has purchased a drill. TX-47-380.
Date:
November 2, 1950
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of three ways of vegetative multiplication of Johnsongrass. Tillers, rhizomes and auxillary buds. TX-170-4.
Date:
September 2, 1955
Creator:
Huckabee, DeWitt
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Texas 46 Improved Rescue grass seed, which was planted in 3 ft. rows in the Fall of 1948. The average height of the grass is 3 1/2 ft. The yield of seed was about 600 pounds per acre. Group 5 B. L. TX. 45-505.
Date:
May 2, 1905
Creator:
Brock, G. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of dixie crimson clover planted in the fall of 1947. There was a good seed crop produced in the spring of 1948 but no seeds were harvested. The crop was harvested in the spring of 1949 producing about 126 pounds per acre. The crop had fallen down when the picture was made on May 6, 1949. The crop was windrowed and combined on May 18, 1949. The clover was fertilized with 200 pounds of 20 % superphosphate per acre at the time of the planting. Group 5, B.L. TX-45-506.
Date:
May 2, 1905
Creator:
Brock, C. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Livestock
Photograph showing some of the 175 hives of bees that are pollinating Madrid and Hubam Sweetclover on this 850 acre farm. There are 435 acres of Madrid of which 60 are to be harvested for seed. Bee pollonation increases seed production. TX-45-668.
Date:
July 2, 1949
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. D. Cornell Ranch
Photograph of two men hammermilling blue grama seed with a drum type seed seedstripper on the H. D. Cornell Ranch.
Date:
November 2, 1950
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hancook Farm
Photograph of R. M. Marshall (left), W. M. Nixon (center), and J. A. Perrin (right) looking at weeping lovegrass planted in 1951.
Date:
April 2, 1952
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
J. A. Perrin
Photograph of J. A. Perrin, district conservationist, standing in S. E. Williams' weeping lovegrass field.
Date:
April 2, 1952
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Churches
Photograph of the Reverend Murray Kay delivering a conservation sermon every year in observance of Soil Stewardship Sunday but he practices conservation the year-round on his farm in the Round Grove Community. He is a cooperator with the Upper Leon Soil Conservation District and is a member of the Round Grove group. Reverend Kay’s great-great grandfather is in the picture’s background. He founded the Round Grove Church in 1871 (the founder’s name was Ruben Rome). TX-46, 504.
Date:
March 2, 1950
Creator:
Putnam, Jack
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Conservation Planning
Photograph of a typical meeting of the Round Grove Conservation Group at the community church. Dean Gardner, group leader, takes charge of the meeting. Reverend Murray Kay, great-grandson of the founder of the church, right foreground, is pastor of the church and a conservation farmer in the Round Grove Conservation Group. TX-46, 502.
Date:
March 2, 1950
Creator:
Putnam, Jack
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History