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Strip Cropping
Photograph of strip cropping using eight rows of peanuts and right rows of combined maize. Practice is used on terraced and contour farm.
Date:
October 1, 1954
Creator:
Clements, Alvin M.
System:
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New Field of Bermuda Grass
Photograph of a field of Bermuda grass planted March 12, 1955. 125 lbs per acre of 16-20-0 used at time of planting. Excellent stand and growth.
Date:
July 1, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bailing Native Grass Hay
Photograph of bailing native grass hay on A. A. Walker farm. Cutting native grass around last of June and first of July to improve native grass.
Date:
July 1, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of native grass planting. A five-year old grass planting on the 1200 acre ranch of Eldred Sasseen. Sasseen has planted grass on his ranch every year the past five years. During 1959 and 1960 he expects to reseed all the remaining cropland to a native grass mixture of little bluestem, switch, sideoats grama, blue grama and lovegrass. OK-776-5.
Date:
November 1, 1958
Creator:
Rowlett, Olen
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of teamwork, showing representatives of various agencies studying grass identification and range management. Left to right: Jack Harper, Vocational Agricultural Instructor; Harvey Schmidt. farmer; W. G. Nash [?], district supervisor; Arnold Bowen, farmer; Ralph Olson, section manager of Cordell Chamber of Commerce; Fred Whittington, Range conservationist, Soil Conservation Service [SCS]. OK-893-5.
Date:
July 1, 1959
Creator:
Rowlett, Olen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of native grasses that are properly managed on the Troy Maddox farm. Maddox says having more grass in his pasture than he needs is good security. He buys when the market is down and sells when the market is up because he always has plenty of grass. Its moisture is adequate; he always has plenty of small grain pasture also. OK-776-2.
Date:
November 1, 1958
Creator:
Rowlett, Olen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of mealycup salvia in foreground among Engleman daisies. TX-45, 385.
Date:
May 1, 1949
Creator:
Allred, B. W.
System:
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Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation
Photograph of roots, leaves and seedheads of a red plantain, one of several small plants called tallow weed. TX-46, 888.
Date:
July 1, 1950
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Antelopehorn on a rocky area. TX-45, 378.
Date:
May 1, 1949
Creator:
Allred, B. W.
System:
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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of more range pitting. A follow-up to photo TX-49-126A. The picture shows a homemade range pitter made from a one-way and mounted or a power lift [sic] of an Allis-Chalmers tractor. The one-way had a 22 inch disc plow spaced 10 inches apart, with 5 inches cut off of one side. See pictures A, B, C, D, F, G, and H. TX-49-126-E.
Date:
May 1, 1954
Creator:
Reynolds, Franklin
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Sutter’s Fescue on an old rice field. 200 pounds of phosphate applied at the time of land preparation. 200 pounds 4-12-4 fertilizer applied at the time of seeding with 17 pounds of Sutter’s Fescue on the 35 foot lands. Seed drilled in on a firm seed bed. TX 47[?], 093.
Date:
March 1, 1949
Creator:
Davis, D. O.
System:
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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a follow-up from photo TX 49-126A. The picture shows a homemade range pitter made from a one-way and mounted or a power lift [sic] of an Allis Chalmers tractor. The one-way had a 22 inch disc spruced 10 inches apart. Five inches were cut off one side. See pictures A, B, C, D, E, F and H. TX-49-126-G
Date:
May 1, 1954
Creator:
Reynolds, Franklin
System:
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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a follow-up from photo TX 49-126A. The picture shows a homemade range pitter made from a one-way and mounted or a power lift [sic] of an Allis Chalmers tractor. The one-way had a 22 inch disc spruced 10 inches apart. Five inches were cut off one side. See pictures A, B, C, D, E, F and H. TX-49-126-D
Date:
May 1, 1954
Creator:
Reynolds, Franklin
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of flowers, leaves, stems and tap root of Leavenworth’s Eryngo (Eryngium leavenworthii). TX-44, 747.
Date:
October 1, 1948
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
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Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation
Photograph of roots, leaves and seed heads of red plantains {USDA: redseed plantains*], one of several small plants called tallow weed. TX-46, 888. *https://plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_plrh.pdf
Date:
July 1, 1950
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of heads of hairy tall dropseed (Sporobolus asper varietas pilosus). TX-44, 724.
Date:
October 1, 1948
Creator:
Dyksterhuis, E. J.
System:
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Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a John Bean power sprayer equipped to make basal-bark applications on brush and trees. The person in the picture is Harry M. Elwell, Research Agronomist for Field Crop Research, US Department of Agriculture [USDA], located at the Red Plains Conservation Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. OK-11-10.
Date:
March 1, 1955
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of heads of Hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsute). TX-44, 279.
Date:
October 1, 1948
Creator:
Dyksterhuis, E. J.
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grasses. A field that has been out of cultivation for 10 years. No grass was planted but was seeded naturally [i.e., letting the grass grow enough to germinate flowers that produce the seeds or where it produces side shoots either above or below the soil]. In good condition. The pasture has been well-managed. Loamy Prairie site. OK-1173-4.
Date:
August 1, 1960
Creator:
unknown
System:
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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass land near Ryan, Oklahoma. A typical landscape. Deep sand range site, fair condition, Minco fine sandy loam soil type. Principal forage species are little bluestem, sideoats grama, tall dropseed, Scribner’s panicum. Non forage plants are sandage, gaura, spp. [Latin = species pluralis: “multiple species”], doze-daisy; yucca-woody species are sand plum and prickly ash. OK-1466-1.
Date:
August 1, 1961
Creator:
Hager, P. E.
System:
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Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of range cover evaluation plot # 164, in excellent condition. Range on red shale hills site (soil unit 24-RR) had 4528 pounds of sideoats grama grass cover per acre, which was 97% effective in controlling soil splash. Detectability was 32% and the splash itself amounted to 1,248 pounds per acre. OK-10-634.
Date:
November 1, 1949
Creator:
Osborn, Ben
System:
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Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of shinnery oak infested pasture. This pasture will be deep plowed in the spring of 1958. Established to native grasses. Shinnery oak has completely choked out native grasses. OK-658-10.
Date:
April 1, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of airplane spraying of shinnery oak. Present in the picture: Bill Blamey [left], Project Supervisor, US Forest Service and Matt Sooter [right], Farm Planner, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Cheyenne, Oklahoma. They are checking the results of the airplane spraying of the shinnery oak shrubs. This pasture was sprayed in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Note the amount of tall grass. This work is supervised by the Woodward Experiment Station. OK-317-4.
Date:
July 1, 1956
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
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Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The right half of this picture shows the infestation of shinnery oak. The left half shows the result after being plowed 20 inches deep. Shinnery oak is completely turned under. The field is to be seeded to sudan grass in 1958 and rye in the fall for winter cover. Sorghum, cover will be established in 1959 for grass seeding. OK-658-7.
Date:
April 1, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History