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[Photograph 2012.201.B1283.0349]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joe Thomas of Pauls Valley has returned to the Oklahoma high school football coaching ranks-and if you dont believe it just ask Wynnewood or Yukon."
Date: June 21, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Coastal Bermuda

Description: Photograph of Coastal Bermuda set late June, 1957. Growth resulting from lultivation. Runners covered in furrows will become winter hardy and provide root stock for quick cover secceeding year.
Date: September 8, 1957
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

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.
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
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
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Planting Coastal Bermuda

Description: Photograph of a man and wife team planting Coastal Bermuda. Just ready to start. Locally made planter. First in series depicting steps in establishing Coastal Bermudagrass. Suggested pictures: 2. Field view after setting. 3. Harrowing for weed control. 4. Harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 5. Second harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 6. Leveling. 7. Seeding legumes. 8. Pasture with cattle. All pictures to be made in 1958.
Date: May 5, 1958
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
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
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Newly Set Costal Bermuda Planted on Contoured Furrows

Description: Photograph of newly set costal Bermuda planted on contoured furrows. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Coastal Bermuda. Newly set. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows mad by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958."
Date: May 11, 1958
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Coastal Bermudagrass Planting

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a tractor beginning the process of planting coastal Bermuda. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Costal Bermuda. Planting Coastal Bermuda – and wife team. Just ready to start. Locally made Planter. First in series depicting steps in establishment Coastal Bermudagrass. Suggested Pictures: 2. Field view after setting. 3. Harrowing for weed control. 4. Harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 5. Second harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 6 Level… more
Date: May 5, 1958
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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