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The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1910

Description: Weekly newspaper from Cushing, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news as well as information presented in its capacity as the official organ of the Anti-Horse Thief Association, Oklahoma Jurisdiction, regarding strayed and stolen livestock and organizational news along with advertising.
Date: November 2, 1910
Creator: Green, E. M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9204.
Date: October 2, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 106, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1906

Description: Semi-weekly newspaper from Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory "published in the interest of the Anti-Horse Thief Association." Includes news, editorials, and agricultural information along with advertising and notices of "Strayed or Stolen" horses. The Searchlight is also adopted as an "Official Paper of the Oklahoma-Indian Territory State Association."
Date: March 2, 1906
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9202.
Date: October 2, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of an old cultivated field that had lain idle, overgrown with brush and sprouts. It has been flat broken [i.e., When land is broken by continuous lapping of furrows], disked and fertilized, then in the spring of 1945 it was seeded to carpet and Dallis grasses, yellow hop, burr black medic, white Dutch clover and Kobe and Korean lespedeza. OK-9206.
Date: October 2, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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