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Caddo Switch Grass
Photograph of irrigated Caddo Switchgrass planted for seed production. This is a selection out of native switch grass. It is excellent for hay, pasture and seed production.
Date:
July 19, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Closed Terraces
Photograph of channel type terraces constructed in 1951. These are closed terraces. Note the water held by the terraces on the morning after 2 inch rain and hail storm with a small tornado. This field has been placed in the Acreage Reserve program. This land will be summer fallowed and will be drilled to wheat for the fall of 1958.
Date:
July 19, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Constructing Channel Type Terraces
Photograph of constructing channel type terraces with an excavator type terracing machine. This is the first farm in Dewey Co. Soil Conservation District that is participating with the Great Plains Conservation Program.
Date:
July 19, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigated Coronado Side Oats
Photograph of irrigated Coronado Side Oats grama grass planted for seed production. This grass will make two seed crops per year and will produce from 200 to 400 pounds of seed per acre under irrigation. It is excellent grass to use in native grass mixtures for seeding cultivated land back to grass.
Date:
July 19, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History