97 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of eragrostis curvula (weeping lovegrass) in an observational nursery in Woodward, OK. Seeded in April, 1941. Note the dead plant at the start of the two rows on the right. Some loss of [unclear] common at this location. OK-8394.
Date: July 30, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Blue Grama

Description: Photograph of blue grama grass, in the U. S. Field Station nursery, from Mexican Springs, NM.
Date: July 9, 1942
Creator: Smith, James E. , Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Switchgrass Plant

Description: Photograph of a switchgrass plant. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Switchgrass – (Panicum Virgatum) - A vigorous, native, perennial, sod-forming grass that occurs throughout most of the U. S. It is most abundant and important as a forage and pasture grass in the central and southern parts of the Great Plains. It usually grows to 3 to 5 feet high, with short, vigorous rhizomes. The flowering head is a widely branching open panicle. Leaves are green to bluish-green. It occurs on nearly all… more
Date: September 15, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Galleta Plant

Description: Photograph of a Galleta plant. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Galleta (Hilaria Jamesii) – Sometimes and unfortunately referred to in older literature as black grama, is an erect perennial. It grows on mesas, plains, and deserts from Wyoming and Nevada to California, Western Texas, and South in Mexico, but is probably most common in New Mexico and Arizona. The abundance of Galleta and its capacity for heavy forage production make it a very important species on many southwestern ranges. I… more
Date: September 12, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Breaks Range Site

Description: Photograph of a Breaks Range Site in or near Woodward, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rough, broken land, Breaks Range Site showing topography and vegetation."
Date: February 1959
Creator: Nance, Earl C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Clover Roots on a Failing Field on Norman Farm

Description: Photograph of a close up shot of roots from first year clover on a failing field located on Norman Farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This field was failing; yields were low; the land was tight although rated as a medium textured soil. This excavation was made on one of the thin areas. The roots were growing out laterally. This was the first year of clover. See Okla-10-286."
Date: November 4, 1949
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Dwight Ferguson Ranch Cattle

Description: Photograph of "Cattle grazing in areas that have been harvested for seed. These pastures were deferred during summer, harvested for grass seed, and now will be utilized for wintering purposes."
Date: November 1, 1957
Creator: Elder, Arthur T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Johnnie Nemecek Standing With the Western State Hospital's Prize Winning Duroe Brood Sows

Description: Photograph of Farm Superintendent Johnnie Nemecek standing with four of the Western State Hospital's prize winning Duroe brood sows on this small grain pasture owned by the hospital. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Some of the Hospital's prize winning Duroe brood sows on small grain pasture. Farm Superintendent Johnnie Nemecek in picture."
Date: October 28, 1959
Creator: Gould, H. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Rhodesgrass Plant

Description: Photograph of a Rhodesgrass plant. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Rhodesgrass – (Chloris gayana) is a perennial grass native to South Africa and was first introduced and very leafy and grows approximately 3 feet high. The spreading, clustered spikes of the flowering head number from 10 to 15, and seed is produced in abundance. The plant also spreads by running branches, or stolons, that are 2 to 6 feet long and root and produce a plant at every node. It is not winter-hardy and rarely wi… more
Date: September 16, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sand Lovegrass Plant

Description: Photograph of a sand lovegrass plant. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Sand Lovegrass – (Eragrostis trichodes) – A vigorous, long lived, native bunch grass, occurs on the sandy sokls [sic] of the central southern parts of the Great Plains. Plants normally grow to 3 to 6 feet. The elongated panicles are sometimes half as tall as the plant and have a distinctive purple color. Leafy foliage, primarily basal, is abundant. Roots are vigorous, spreading, and deeply penetrating, and therefore of… more
Date: September 13, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wells and Storage Facilities

Description: Photograph of cattle drinking from a new storage facility and well recently completed on the Adams farm 9 miles SW of Woodward. Constructed through the Great Plains Program.
Date: October 1967
Creator: Oneth, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Native Grass Pasture

Description: Photograph of 1 year growth of native grass mixture during an unusually good growing season. The mixture consists of seed lovegrass, blue and side-oats grass and little bluestem
Date: 1941~
Creator: Smith Jr., J. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen