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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, right, Oklahoma City high school students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass. Bluestem mixture planted in 1952 on a clean seedbed. Class IV land. Soil Unit # 6. Moderate grazing during fall and winter. OK-1004-5.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass seeded to sideoats and blue grama. Planted in 1957 on a clean seedbed. Class III land. OK-1003-11.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of sericea Lespedeza. Sericea Lespedeza was planted in 1950 and drilled with oats and a sod drill. It will be used for hay. The sericea is growing on old cultivated land of Class III, 2% slope and Soil Unit # 6. Sixty percent of the topsoil in this field has been removed by erosion. The Soil Conservation Service recommends this type of plants rather than row crops on a field in this condition. OK-273-12.
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of improper management of Lovegrass. With W.C. Stewart, District Cooperator. Cattle grazing five year old stand of Weeping Lovegrass. The Lovegrass needs to be shredded for more uniform grazing. Cattle are grazing areas where the grass has been kept short, showing the nedd for shredding the old strands of Lovegrass. OK-1292-4.
Date:
March 15, 1961
Creator:
Leonard, Claude M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of a wheat field where water concentrates. Waterway is to be shaped in the near future and sprigged to bermuda. This is a continuation of a waterway starting on the joining Irwin Curby farm on the north. Keith residence in the background. OK-1575-5.
Date:
May 15, 1905
Creator:
Morris, D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].
Photograph of Thomas Mabry, district cooperator, on a field where he used a Grassland Drill to plant vetch and small grain for winter pasture. OK-1525-10.
Date:
May 15, 1905
Creator:
Long, J. R., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Lloyd Williams, a cooperator showing growth and seed development of native grass and King Ranch bluestem, Class IV soil. Grass planted in March 1962, mowed in late July to control weeds. 3 lbs. pure live seed [PLS] per acre. OK-1826-8.
Date:
October 15, 1962
Creator:
Coleman, Chester C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Weeping lovegrass 3-years old on the Thompson farm. It is being harvested for seed. OK-9590.
Date:
May 15, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the A. B. Blackburn Coop, where oats and vetch are seeded in a Bermuda grass sod pasture with a sod drill. The Bermuda grass has not been grazed. OK-139-9.
Date:
November 15, 1955
Creator:
Windman, F. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of rancher Pat Higgins holding runners of Angleton grass growing in rod rows. TX-46, 393.
Date:
November 15, 1949
Creator:
San Antonio Express
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of J.B. Cutrer, left, and Dr. H.H. Bennett, chief of the USDA SCS, right, watching a young Guernsey cow enjoying a good meal of fine clovers in improved pastures established in the Fall of 1941 at a cost of approximately $17.00 per acre, not including labor. Cutrer says "When the herd was turned into pasture on April 23, 1942, our daily milk production ranged from 275 to 300 pounds. Two weeks later, milk production ranged from 600 o 625 pounds. Also saw a large savings in food. Cattle have grazed continuously except for a short time when taken off to all clovers and grass to reseed. Health of herd has also improved. Cows have no trouble at calving time." The Cutrers established their first improved pasture, 2 acres in 1939; in 1941, 22 acres were developed and in 1942, 35 acres were established. LA-D7-3.
Date:
April 15, 1943
Creator:
Webb, C. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of supplemental summer pasture. Sericea lespedeza pasture. Calves put on this pasture, May 1, 1950, had gained 150 pounds (average), each by August 15, 1950. AR-61-497.
Date:
August 15, 1950
Creator:
Hodson, E. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Field of Class III and IV, 7-OH soil, planted with Bermuda sprigs in 1942 and 1943. Pastured continuously with no maintenance until the spring of 1955, at which time it was plowed and planted to Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation. Bermuda made good growth after Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation had matured. Land was plowed in the spring of 1956 and planted to corn with an application of 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre at the time of planting corn. Corn was harvested in September and yielded 50 bushels per acre. The Bermuda was used for fall pasture followed by vetch and small grain. OK-371-8.
Date:
August 15, 1956
Creator:
Lowe, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Field of Class III and IV, 7-OH soil, planted with Bermuda sprigs in 1942 and 1943. Pastured continuously with no maintenance until the spring of 1955, at which time it was plowed and planted to Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation. Bermuda made good growth after Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation had matured. Land was plowed in the spring of 1956 and planted to corn with an application of 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre at the time of planting corn. Corn was harvested in September and yielded 50 bushels per acre. The Bermuda was used for fall pasture followed by vetch and small grain. OK-371-8.
Date:
August 15, 1956
Creator:
Lowe, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of strip pits spoils coming back naturally to native grasses. Coal was stripped from this area in the early 1940s. The area was aerially-seeded to sweet clover around 1950 and good stands were obtained and remained for 3 or 4 years. Not much sweet clover is evident at the present time. Area grazed by steers in the spring and summer as planned by Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians. Nick Robson on the right and Warren McCarty on the left. OK-287-10.
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Upland alfalfa for soil management, William Widnay farm. Alfalfa is an excellent legume for soil building and cover. Mr. Widney uses alfalfa on upland (III - ?) in his conservation crop rotation. This alfalfa was seeded in the fall of 1952. For a nurse crop, ½ bushel of wheat per acre was cross-drilled in the wide spaced rows (every other row drilled). Wheat made 20 bushels per acre. Utilization of alfalfa has been a spring hay crop, seed crop in the summer and fall pastures. He has another planting of alfalfa and plans to plow this one up in the fall. His plans are for the alfalfa to be in a 3-year rotation. He has been a soil district cooperator since 1948. OK-279-12.
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of 1957 native grass planting--blue grama and bluestem mixture. Excellent, well-prepared seedbed planted in April, 1957. Good stand is now showing. Close-up shot by 3rd highline pole north of the east turn in the road. Soil Banks Program. OK-487-10.
Date:
May 15, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of eight acre native grass planting with district equipment--a combination drill and culti-packer. Well prepared seedbed, mixture of bluestem grama. Drill moving. OK-488-1.
Date:
May 15, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass planted in 1952. Class IV land. Moderately grazed during the winter. OK-1004-6.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Reseeded to native grass mixture. Sideoats and blue grama of 1957. Class IV land. OK-1003-9.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of bailing sericea lespedeza hay. Mr. Andrew Costner, shown, is the supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Hay is being baled by Charles Nobles, custom baler. This 20 acres of sericea hay meadow made 509 bales of hay on the first cutting. OK-10-873-A.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
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