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Newly Set Coastal Bermuda

Description: Photograph of newly set Coastal Bermuda. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows made by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958.
Date: May 11, 1958
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of raking three windrows at one time behind combine preceeding baleing. This operation follows immediately after combining. The type of baler used requires a large windrow for efficient operation. This land is also used for pasture. The cattle were taken off on May 10 to allow time for the clover seed to mature. 40 pounds of cleaned seed per acre were harvested from this land.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of a wind rower attachment to mower to windrow mixture of yellow hop clover, bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza so seed in yellow hop clover can be combined with pick-up attachment on combine. Windrower turns swath gently with minimum loss of seed. Note how bottom end of stems are turned out holding leaves unside for ideal curing of hay. Windrower and pick-up attachment on combine permit drying efficently and harvesting for seed. Ater combining of seed, grass and clover will be baled f… more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Development

Description: Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Henry, Andy, and Phillip Roye, sons of owner, operating machine. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of grassland Utilization. Baling Bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza for the hay following combining of big yellow hop clover seed. The hay yield was 35 bales per acre and the seed yield was 40 pounds per acre. This field is also used as pasture. The cattle were taken off the field on May 10, 1956 to allow time for grass and lespedeza growth for hay and for the seed to mature for combining. Cattle were placed on this immediately after this harvest. OK-334-5.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Spoils Bank Remaining After Strip Mining of Coal

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a spoils banks remaining after strip mining of coal. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Spoils banks remaining after strip mining of coal. These banks were sodded to Bermuda grass (costal) in 1955. Land is useless until vegetated. It will offer some grazing when the grass is established. No fertilizer had been used to get this growth. Area in background is unvegetated. With stored water in pits formed when excavating coal, water for irrigation ma… more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Leveled Coal Strip Mining Spoil Banks

Description: Photograph of a former coal strip mining spoil banks leveled with a dozer. The area will be sodded to coastal Bermudagrass and used for future grazing, but the process will take some time as well as the risk of soil compaction hampering growth. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Leveled spoil banks after strip mining of coal. This area was leveled with a dozer and will be sodded to coastal Bermuda grass. Vegetation will be slow in this area as the soil is not fertile and lacks top soil and … more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Development

Description: Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five of these machines, privately owned, are in operation in the Haskell SCD.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ladino Clover

Description: Photograph of Ladino clover planted, September 1944 at a rate of 5 pounds per acre, fertilized with 300 pounds phosphate per acre. Is being saved for seed. OK-9187.
Date: July 11, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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