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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of little bluestem at the Red Plains Experiment Station. The bluestem was established in the spring of 1940 by 1500 pounds per acre seed-hay mulch. An effort has been made to thresh the seed from material by a small Allis-Chalmers combine. The hay contained considerable moisture, thus the threshed material contained considerable seed. Application was made broadcast on badly eroded sandy loam soil which had previously been cropped to cotton and grain sorghum. After spreading, the mate… more
Date: November 1942
Creator: Elwell, H. M.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Clumps or pedestals of soil held from ending by bluestream grass. OK-6915.
Date: November 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of plot # 51, Red Plains Experiment Station. Of a uniform nursery plots showing complete cover of Bouteloua filliformia (T. 3111) with 19 plants per square foot. Other plots of this succession are comparable. No crabgrass in the plot. Erosion of 1 to 2%. OK-8319.
Date: November 6, 1941
Creator: Wolff, S. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Improvement

Description: Photograph of pasture improvement showing the area on the right, one year ago which was exactly like that on the left. The scrub brush was removed, aprouts sowed three times during the summer and grazing prohibited. NOTE: difference of grass growth.
Date: November 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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