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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the hammermilling of blue grama seed harvested with a drum type seed stripper. About 11,000 pounds of blue grama seed (uncleaned) were harvested on the H. D. Cornell ranch this fall [i.e., 1950]. Cornell will use part of the seed on his ranch to reseed denuded areas and has purchased a drill. TX-47-380.
Date: November 2, 1950
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Texas 46 Improved Rescue grass seed, which was planted in 3 ft. rows in the Fall of 1948. The average height of the grass is 3 1/2 ft. The yield of seed was about 600 pounds per acre. Group 5 B. L. TX. 45-505.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Brock, G. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of dixie crimson clover planted in the fall of 1947. There was a good seed crop produced in the spring of 1948 but no seeds were harvested. The crop was harvested in the spring of 1949 producing about 126 pounds per acre. The crop had fallen down when the picture was made on May 6, 1949. The crop was windrowed and combined on May 18, 1949. The clover was fertilized with 200 pounds of 20 % superphosphate per acre at the time of the planting. Group 5, B.L. TX-45-506.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Brock, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock

Description: Photograph showing some of the 175 hives of bees that are pollinating Madrid and Hubam Sweetclover on this 850 acre farm. There are 435 acres of Madrid of which 60 are to be harvested for seed. Bee pollonation increases seed production. TX-45-668.
Date: July 2, 1949
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hancook Farm

Description: Photograph of R. M. Marshall (left), W. M. Nixon (center), and J. A. Perrin (right) looking at weeping lovegrass planted in 1951.
Date: April 2, 1952
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

J. A. Perrin

Description: Photograph of J. A. Perrin, district conservationist, standing in S. E. Williams' weeping lovegrass field.
Date: April 2, 1952
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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