Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of 19 acre seeding of weeping love grass on an old cultivated field for pasture. Seeded in 1941 in rows andcultivated. Seeds were harvested this year [1942]. OK-8456.
Date: December 15, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Great Plains Conservation Program

Photograph of the Great Plains Conservation Program [ 1957 - 1996]. Stubble mulching under the Great Plains Program Contract. The filed averaged 40 bushels of wheat per acre in 1958. OK-712-6.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Flood Prevention Treatment

Photograph of flood prevention treatment on sandstone Creek Watershed permitted Roy E. Baker to put this 16-acre bottom land field into productive use. He got five cuttings of alfalfa-1729 bales - during the dry 1952 summer. Growth for the fourth cutting was without rain. Baker says the detention dam in his pasture furnished stock water at a time when other supplies were failing.
Date: October 15, 1952
Creator: Jenkins, Tarleton A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History