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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a close-up detail of individual plants in the excellent composition on normal upland site. The predominantly tall plants, starting at the left, are tall dropseed, a single stalk of sideoats grama, a large clump of little bluestem, and, the plume-like one toward the right, Indian grass. See TX-43, 965A for the percentage composition of the grasses on this site. TX-43, 965B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Guy Lockhart driving the tractor while Emmett Stewart, Soil Conservation service technician, is on the combine during a harvest of a King Ranch strain of Yellow Bluestem. The stand is 2 years old. In 1946 it yielded 300 pounds of seed on 4 acres. It was combined twice that year. The yield, possibly reduced by drought, was about the same this year. TX-43, 963.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pride of Texas Orchards Home Made Weed Mower

Description: Photograph of a homemade weed mower used to mow weeds in citrus orchards. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Home made [sic] weed mower used to mow weeds in citrus orchards. Whirling blades with mower knives on edges cuts weeds at height of about 4" from ground. Power takeoff from tractor – 5 disc blades, about 30" diameter, cuts strip about 12.5 feet wide. No other cultivation practiced in these orchards for last year."
Date: October 23, 1947
Creator: Brown, Grover
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pride of Texas Orchards Home Made Weed Mower Close-Up View

Description: Photograph of a homemade weed mower used to mow weeds in citrus orchards. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Home-made weed mower used to mow weeds in citrus orchards. Whirling blades with mower knives cuts weeds at height of about 4 inches from ground. Power to drive blades comes from the wheels – 3 disc blades, 30 inches wide. Cuts strip about 7.5 wide, pulled with Ford tractor. No cultivation practiced in these orchards in last year."
Date: October 23, 1947
Creator: Brown, Grover
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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