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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Bermuda sod on the front slope of a dam—sodded and fertilized in 1949—occasional light grazing. Sod shows some evidence of breaking up and probably should be fertilized in the near future. Has provided excellent protection to the structure. OK-3134-4
Date: December 9, 1955
Creator: Cooper, H. W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of composite samples of Texas Wintergrass taken in December, 1946. The large sample was taken where litter was in good condition and considerable stubble from previous years growth remained. The range where the small sample came from had been burned the previous September. Ground temperatures were from 5 to 6 degrees warmer. TX-45-943.
Date: December 1946
Creator: Fox-Davis.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of poison weed plots on the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Members of the Texas Section, American Society of Range Management view the enclosures while on a field tour. Livestock were excluded from the area since October, 1951. Various locoweed control treatments have been tried. One outstanding result of the enclosures is in the recovery of cane bluestem grass. The area receives a little extra water from the adjacent highlands. Outside the plot the few cane bluestem plants f… more
Date: December 8, 1952
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Spot Sodded on Pasture Contours

Description: Photograph of a field consisting of Bermuda, needle grass, and ragweed. Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours and will spread and completely cover the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours. All the other vegetation in the pasture consists of needle grass and ragweed's. The Bermuda will spread and in time completely cover the pasture, making it a great deal better than it was before the contours were built and the Bermuda started. To be followe… more
Date: December 7, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Demonstration Farm

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-460. Demonstration Farm. Rows of cotton hulls on the project demonstration farm. The hulls are levelled over the fields, then plowed under for the purpose of improving the soil."
Date: December 3, 1946
Creator: Parker, D. B.
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Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Cotton Field

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-459. Demonstration Farm. Closeup view of cotton on the project demonstration farm. This, like all other crops on the farm, is grown under irrigation."
Date: December 3, 1946
Creator: Parker, D. B.
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Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land wher… more
Date: December 3, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land wher… more
Date: December 3, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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