Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a grass drill developed at Woodward, showing special seeder boxes mounted for seeding small-seeded spices such as Eragrostis curvula [aka: weeping lovegrass] and Eragrostis trichodes [aka: sand lovegrass] and naked caryopses [aka: grains] of some larger-seeded species. OK-8714.
Date: January 25, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Gordon Powers pours clean buffalo grass burs into a hammermill to prove his idea that this method is a quick, cheap and safe way to more seeedlings than ever before from a pouind of buffalo grass burs. Powers also designed and built the very successful dust collector shown on the hammermill. OK-8887.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History