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Drainage System Construction

Description: Photograph of Improved Drainage Ditch in Fame Bottom Farms Drainage project (see OK-8709 for view of unimproved ditch immediately above and adjoining these two farms). About 20% of the land in Fame Bottom very frequently produces crop failures due to excess water on the fields. Average crop yields on fields not damaged by [unclear] of cotton per acre; 35 pounds corn per acre. Properly drained, the land in this bottom will produce 4 tons of alfalfa would fail. The drainage project benefits 1790 … more
Date: February 4, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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