Livestock
Description:
Photograph of district supervisor Harry Stiers with some of his 23 head of shorthorn and Jersey cows on Bermuda Kobe lespedeza pasture. This old cultivated field was retired and sodded to Bermuda 3 years ago. Last year, after flat-breaking, discing and harrowing, it was overseeded to Kobe lespedeza. The diversion terraces near where Mr. Stiers is standing protects the cultivated land below. Stiers said he “need[ed] to farm between the gullies” before he retired the 28 of his 60 cultivated acres…
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Date:
September 4, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society