Secrest Ranch

Photograph of Secrest Ranch showing the rear view of a self-propelled combine cutting seed from Indiangrass and big bluestem. Yields here were around 250 pounds of seed to the acre. The native grass is to be used largely in the Washita River watershed. OK-9756.
Date: October 5, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Secrest Ranch

Photograph of Earle Goode of Ardmore cutting through a good stand of Indiangrass and big bluestem on the Secrest Ranch. The combine is owned by asher and Hurlow of Ardmore. The machine was set so high that it barely touched the tops of the larger plants of little bluestem; the exceeding bulk of the big bluestem and Indian grass made this necessary. The seed was cut on contract with the Soil Conservation Service. OK-9755.
Date: October 5, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Self-Propelled Combine Cutting Seed From Indiangrass and Big Bluestem on the Secrest Ranch

Photograph of the rear view of a self-propelled combine cutting seed from Indiangrass and big bluestem. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rear view of a self-propelled combine cutting seed from Indiangrass and big bluestem. Yields here were around 250 pounds of seed to the acre. The native grass is to be need largely in the Washita River watershed."
Date: October 5, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tom's Place Wheat Field

Photograph of a wheat field with the left side had no prior fertilizer treatment, while the right followed tomatoes fertilized with 4-12-4 at 100 pounds per acre. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The wheat in this picture was planted the same day, but that at the right has a much greater total growth and seems to be setting more grain than that at the left. The wheat at the right is grown on land where a crop of tomatoes, which had been fertilized with 4-12-4 at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, was grown last year. The wheat at the left follows another row crop, which had no fertilizer. Soil is 9-H."
Date: May 5, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History