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[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0121]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jesse Gordon "Obie" Bristow, former University of Oklahoma football player, was promoted to the rank of major last week at the Childress, Texas army air field."
Date: November 26, 1944
Creator: AAF training command
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of W. B. Close (left) and V.B. Ellis (right) showing that grass has grown well over 5 feet in the 84 days since it was planted. Close is a neighbor of Ellis’ who has had blue panic grass on his own land and was quite influential in getting Ellis to plant his grass. (See TX-48-717-A). TX-48-717-B.
Date: July 24, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of growth that has been made on blue panic grass planted on May 1, 1953, where the grass was irrigated. The ground was irrigated once before planting and once after planting. Shortly after this picture was made, Ellis turned 43 head of grown cattle into this 8 acre planting of panic grass and left them for one month. They were then rotated to sudan grass. The blue panic grass was about knee-high at the end of this grazing period and either be grazed again or saved for a seed crop or … more
Date: July 24, 1953
Creator: Ord, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Planting Seeds

Description: Photograph of James Doneghy combining seed from 20 acre field of weeping lovegrass planted April 17, 1945, in 42" rows. Yielded 40 seed per acre on July 31, 1945.
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: Rhode, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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