Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Ten acre field of alfalfa planted following 2 years of sweet clover, where lime was applied. Sweat clover and alfalfa received application of 48% superphosphate at a rate of 150 pounds per acre. Alfalfa seeded in the fall of 1942 after a field of sweat clover was turned under in the summer of 1942. This method of seeding alfalfa following the sweet clover helps insure complete inoculation of alfalfa. Part of the field seeded to common variety of alfalfa & the rest to the Grimm variety. Recently a small check area has received an application of boron at a rate of 20 pounds per acre. Elbert Graham, farm owner and one of the district supervisors, is standing in the foreground of the picture. AR-D25-70.
Date: May 13, 1944
Creator: Rosborough, Craig
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Suitor fescue. Planting made during the latter part of September 1947. Fifty pounds of seed were furnished by the Soil Conservation Service with five acres planted. No. 6 soil. About 200 pounds of 3-9-18 fertilizer were used on the five acres. Approximately 200 pounds of seed were harvested in the summer of 1948. It is believed that twice as much seed would have been harvested had it not been for a heavy rain two days before the harvest. AR-61-224.
Date: May 1, 1905
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a volunteer crop of crimson clover which has reproduced itself by volunteer seeding for a period of 5 consecutive years. This winter's legume crop has served as soil conserving and building the [?] winter legume. Disking has been about the only cultivation given this 12 acre red apple and peach orchard in the background where the crimson clover has volunteered red with the seeding made in the fall of 1943. Dewey Vaughn, farm operator, is shown examining some of the heads of crimson clover which the farm owner expects to harvest for the seed. The seed yield has been estimated at 300 pounds per acre or more for that part grown without small grain. AR-D25-71.
Date: May 13, 1944
Creator: Rosborough, Craig
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Vetch and Oats Combination Planting in Apple Orchard Next to Highway #71

Photograph of the combination planting of oats and vetch in an apple orchard in Lowell, next to Highway #71. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of vetch and oats in apple orchard. Cover crop has been cut into the soil with tractor and double disk to serve as a mulch in the orchard. A common practice over a number of years in this orchard. Growth of vetch and oats in the foreground was left unplowed and serves as a border strip along the highway. This strip helps to show this amount of green manure that has been cut into the soil to serve as orchard mulch."
Date: May 7, 1942
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

P. L. Blackshire

Photograph of P. L. Blackshire, pioneer in Kentucky 31 fescue seed production, standing in a seed field.
Date: May 23, 1950
Creator: Millard, T. T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Praying Hands in a Wheat Field

Photograph of hands, in a prayer stance, rising from a wheat field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Give us this day our daily bread."
Date: May 2, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Balboa Rye and Hairy Vetch Used for Soil Improvement, Erosion Control, and Seed Production

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a field of Balboa rye and hairy vetch, which will be used for seed production. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of hairy vetch and Balboa rye for seed. 30 acres to be harvested with regular combine (6-foot sickle) for seed. Surplus vetch seed to be sold through AAA after rye and vetch are separated with special gravity seed separator. Balboa rye to be sold through local seed sources. 100 pounds of triple superphosphate (AAA) applied per acre. 20# of inoculated hairy vetch planted per acre (home grown seed) with one-half bu. Balboa rye (home grown seed) planted with Van Brunt 12-disc, 7-inch spacing on ground prepared with field cultivator with plowing (turning) ground."
Date: May 8, 1942
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History