Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a Bermuda Grass Automatic Sprigger. This is an automatic bermuda grass sprigger operated under the jurisdiction of the Soil Conservation District. Recommendations for planting are made by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-241-7.
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of native grass planting. This land had been formerly cultivated and is now being planted with native bluestem grasses, using an Ezee-Flow fertilizer spreader as a planter and a rotary hoe cultivator being pulled in reverse. The seeds were harvested and obtained under Soil Conservation District supervision as the farm is under a Soil Conservation program. Mr. Vance shown in the picture. OK-240-8.
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the discing of old contour ridges which have been plowed in as preparation for a Bermuda grass seed bed. OK-6297.
Date: April 6, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seeding Bermuda Grass

Photograph of harrowing contour ridges which have been plowed in to the center and disced in preparing a Bermuda grass seed bed.
Date: April 6, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cows Grazing on A Contoured Furrowed Pasture/Stillwater Project

Photograph of eleven cows grazing on a contour furrowed pasture, planted to Bermudagrass, buffalo, grama, and straminium. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cows are here shown grazing on a contour furrowed field. The furrows have been planted to Bermuda grass and the predominating grasses of this of this virgin pasture are buffalo, grama, and straminium [sic]. Over pasturing in the early spring is considered detrimental."
Date: April 27, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the seeding of contour ridges in native pasture, using lespedaza and sweet clover. The ridges were built with two rounds with terracing plow, then worked with the orchard disc. Seed broadcast by hand. Covering with two mower wheels as drag or barrow. OK-5668.
Date: April 27, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History