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Fescue Grass Ladina Clover Pasture

Description: Photograph of Percy Martin examining part of his 48 acres of fescue grass-ladino clover bottonland pasture, He turned 112 head of cattle on this 48 acres in Dec, 1950 and left them there until Apr 1, except during 3 weeks of severe weather inJanuary. "During that three months," Martin says, "the livestock had nothing else to eat, yet they fared better than cows that were on straight ladino and ryegrass and being given a couple of pounds of cake each day." Martin also has fescue-ladino planted o… more
Date: July 25, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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