Arkansas Traveler #1 Oats

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Photograph of an 18 acre field of Arkansas Traveler number 1 oats which was planted with 50 bushels of oats direct from Fayetteville, Arkansas Experiment Station which will be thoroughly tested under farm conditions and seed multiplied for use of farmers throughout this immediate area. 150# of 20% superphosphate were applied at the time oats were seeded on October 12, field was top-dressed with 100# of Ammonia Nitrate (32. 5%) at time oats began to joint. The oats were over seeded with Korean lespedeza at the rate of some 25# per acre around April 1. Standing in foreground, left to … continued below

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Rosborough, Craig May 30, 1945.

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The Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society (OCHS) was organized and became a functioning organization in 2018. Partnerships were formalized with the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts (OACD), the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Oklahoma State University Oral History Research Program and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

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Photograph of an 18 acre field of Arkansas Traveler number 1 oats which was planted with 50 bushels of oats direct from Fayetteville, Arkansas Experiment Station which will be thoroughly tested under farm conditions and seed multiplied for use of farmers throughout this immediate area. 150# of 20% superphosphate were applied at the time oats were seeded on October 12, field was top-dressed with 100# of Ammonia Nitrate (32. 5%) at time oats began to joint. The oats were over seeded with Korean lespedeza at the rate of some 25# per acre around April 1. Standing in foreground, left to right: Alfred Austin, farm owner: Earl Smith, work unit conservationist at Muskogee and former county agent of Benton County, Arkansas: John A. Killough, district conservationist at Claremore: and L. L. Ballard, Benton County district cooperator, former county agent from Texas, and 1905 graduate of Texas A. & M. College.

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Alfred Austin farm, near Gravette

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  • May 30, 1945

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  • Aug. 27, 2021, 6:58 p.m.

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  • March 28, 2022, 8:52 a.m.

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Rosborough, Craig. Arkansas Traveler #1 Oats, photograph, May 30, 1945; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1833741/: accessed July 3, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society.

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