Disking a Vetch and Rye Cover Crop in Orchard
Description:
Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a tractor disking a vetch and rye cover crop in orchard. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Disking vetch and rye cover crop, fertilized with 220 lbs. per acre of superphosphate, in 60 acre orchard. Cover crop planted first of October 1944. After being disked the residue left on the surface of the soil conserves moisture and reduces run-off and erosion. This land formerly was in peanuts; peach trees were planted after cow peas had been grown 2 years. Cov…
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Date:
April 26, 1945
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society