Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Weeping Love Grass (Eragrostis cruvula) in a cultivation study. Note the rows to the right of the white stick and the broadcast to the left of this. The area was seeded in April, 1939, on Chickasha fine sandy loam soil. # 340.
Date: October 1942
Creator: Elwell, H. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-N.
Date: March 20, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-D.
Date: March 20, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish and Wildlife Management

Photograph of a properly managed, average size farm pond. It will cheaply produce sufficient fish to furnish farm families with all of the essential protein, minerals and vitamins needed for a balanced diet. This pond produces enough fish for the owner and for some of his neighbors. R.G. Summers, age 16, who lives nearby is shown with a morning’s catch of bass and blue gill. AR-D1-22.
Date: July 18, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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

Livestock

Photograph of sheep grazing on temporary pastures of wheat. Mr. R.R. Wooten has about 290 acres of Buffalo pasture but utilizes temporary pasture each year to prevent overgrazing of his permanent pastures. TX-40-912.
Date: October 12, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wild Grouse

Photograph of a wild grouse.
Date: April 3, 1942
Creator: Pace
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a grass drill, rear view with press wheel gang removed. OK-8350.
Date: 1942
Creator: Smith, J. N., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a grass drill, rear view with press wheel gang removed, showing row markers in carrying position. OK-8351.
Date: 1942
Creator: Smith, J. N., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the harvesting of buffalo grass seed with a small power-driven sickle-type mover with a pan attachment. OK-8383.
Date: July 10, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of rows 9 to 16 in sand bluestem breeding nursery. OK-8375.
Date: July 9, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of two strains of Blue Grama grasses in breeding nursery. On the left, from Flagstaff, Arizona and the right, from Lovington, New Mexico. OK-8370.
Date: July 10, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of sideoats grama grass selection with compressed spikelets. OK-8373.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of strains of Blue Grama grass in a breeding nursery in Mexico Springs, New Mexico. OK-8369.
Date: July 9, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Paspalum stramineum (left), Woodward strain and (Chickasha and Rush Springs, Oklahoma strain, (right) according to No 0-1358, in an observational nursery. Middle rows harvested for hay yields. OK-8378.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of different strains of sideoats grama grass in a breeding nursery. Left: Selection #438 open-pollenated. Center left: Selection #438 self-pollenated. Center right: Selection #439 self-pollenated. Right: Selection #439 self-pollenated OK-8372.
Date: July 10, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of eragrostis trichodes [i.e., Sand Love Grass, from Woodward (center); from Stillwater (left); and from Manhattan, Kansas (right) in an observational nursery. OK-8381.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of rows 1 to 8 in sand bluestem breeding nursery. OK-8376.
Date: July 9, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of different strains of sideoats grama grass in a breeding nursery. Left: Selection #432 open-pollenated. Center: Selection #432 self-pollenated. Right: Selection #434 open-pollenated. OK-8374.
Date: July 10, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a general view of side-oats grama grass breeding nursery. OK-8380.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a blue grama grass selection from Mexican Springs, New Mexico. OK-8367.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a general view of a Blue Grama grass breeding nursery. OK-8379.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Sideoats Grama Grass from Lamesa, Texas, Account Number CT-1255 (left) and Perryton, Texas, Account Number CT-1250 (right) in an observational nursery. OK-8377.
Date: July 30, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Andropogon ischaemum [i.e., Yellow Bluestem, right] and A. intermedius caucasius [Caucasian Bluestem, left] in an observational nursery. OK-8366.
Date: July 29, 1942
Creator: Smtih, James, R., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History