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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a scalper or screener built at Woodward Nursery and used to separate large trash from seed material. The machine is operated by a small concentric [motor or engine?] having a stroke of about 3 inches and is powered by a small, electric motor. Hand harvested switch grass material is being screened. OK-8893.
Date:
September 24, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a scalper or screener built at Woodward Nursery and used to separate large trash from seed material. The machine is operated by a small concentric [motor or engine?] having a stroke of about 3 inches and is powered by a small, electric motor. Hand harvested switch grass material i sbeing screened. OK-8893.
Date:
September 24, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of hand harvesting send bluestem (Andropogon hallii). OK-8894.
Date:
September 23, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
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
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of From left to right: buffalo grass seed and trash as it comes from the combine harvester (etc.—text too blurred and faded to read). OK-8888 [?].
Date:
September 23, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of a female buffalo grass plant bearing a good seed crop. Note the burrs showing between the hands of the seed scout who is investigating the crop's prospects. This seed can be harvested with adapted combines. OK-8879.
Date:
September 23, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of unhulled and hulled buffalo grass seed photgraphed at slightly more than twice-natural size. OK-8746.
Date:
March 1944
Creator:
Locke
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass plantings nest to tree rows on the Station. Pictures taken to show one possible method of covering the exposed area commonly found adjacent to shelterbelts. Evidence of these photos may not be too conclusive since all the grass plantings are young, but the physical fact of establishment is illustrated. OK-8741.
Date:
March 1944
Creator:
Smith, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History