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Seed Harvest

Description: Photograph of Little Bluestem grass seed set cut in sun to dry before cleaning. Seed is being processed by Upper Washita SCD to be used in reseeding land in Roger Mills County.
Date: November 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The right half of this picture shows the infestation of shinnery oak. The left half shows the result after being plowed 20 inches deep. Shinnery oak is completely turned under. The field is to be seeded to sudan grass in 1958 and rye in the fall for winter cover. Sorghum, cover will be established in 1959 for grass seeding. OK-658-7.
Date: April 1, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak shrub control. This field is badly infested with shinnery oak, being 5 to 20 feet tall when it was deep plowed. The field was drug with cross ties; [unclear] and seeded to rye in the fall of 1957. 22 acres were deep plowed. Eighty five head of cattle were counted as grazing in the filed in March, 1958. OK-658-6.
Date: March 31, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The field was plowed 20 inches or deeper in August, 1957. It was seeded to rye in the fall without any seedbed preparation. Sudan or sorghum cover will be established in 1958. Climax native grasses will be seeded in 1959. OK-658-3.
Date: March 31, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three UNIDENTIFIED Workers Using A Hydro Seeder on Backslope of Detention Site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to Mixture of Native Grasses

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED workers using a hydro seeder to seed backslope of Detention site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to mixture of native grasses. Bermuda sprigging crew is seen on the bottom left and a fencing crew is located in the center right of photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Hydro seeder seeding back slope [sic] of Detention site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to mixture of native grasses. Men in lower left corner is Bermuda springing crew. Fencing crew is busy also."
Date: July 14, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Description: Photograph of a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 25' high when deep plowed in 1956. Sorghum cover will be established and field seedbed to climax native grasses."
Date: March 31, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of Ralph Foster, reporter for Capper’s Farmer Magazine, Topeka, Kansas, is inspecting Caddo switchgrass hay being baled by Jack Rhoton. This 14 acre field was seeded May 17, 1957 and irrigated once. It produced 307 pounds of seed per acre in 1957. This hay crop yielded 2800 pounds per acre or 560 bales of good quality hay. A seed crop will follow. OK-708-3.
Date: July 4, 1958
Creator: Whittington, Fred
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Description: Photograph of a portion of a herd of cattle grazing in a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. A house and a barn are visible on the far right of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 5 to 20’ tall when deep plowed. Field was drug with cross ties; pnewayed [sic] and seeded to rye fall 1957. Deep plowed in April, 1957. 22 acres deep plowed. Eighty-five head of cattle was co… more
Date: March 31, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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