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Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Wade George examines hegira strip crop. He grows four rows of hegira to eight of peanuts. A rye cover crop and peanut hay left on the ground provide additional erosion protection. In 1949 and 1950 George had a 50-bushel-an-acre peanut yield. George has planted cover crops on his goober [synonym for "peanut'] acreage every year for 20 years. During that span of time, he has put in strip crops each year but one. III-12CT. TX-47-545.
Date: April 17, 1951
Creator: Tompkins, Gordon
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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

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

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of strip cropping at Wade Farm. Single row of sudangrass used fro strip cropping this peanut land. The area between the single row of sudangrass has been planted to cover a crop of rye. A single row of sudan grass such as this does not do a good job of controlling wind erosion as does two rows. M.D. Gamble from Oklahoma is in the picture. TX-307-12.
Date: March 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of R.D. Walker, right, and John O. Simpson, SCS technician, left, in a strip crop of sudangras and guar [ a legume--aka, the Lond bean, or Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, the source of guar gum]. Walker gets additional erosion protection on his peanut lands from rye and vetch cover crop and by leaving peanut hay on the ground. III-12CT. TX-47-556.
Date: April 16, 1951
Creator: Tompkins, Gordon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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