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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of old vegetation at the Red Plains Experiment Station. The old vegetation, after moving mature grass plants, provided a mulch which reduces erosion. This mulch creates a silt deposit and attention is called to the young grss seedlings which are emerging. This is important on badly eroded abandoned areas which are being revegetated. OK-8349.
Date: July 23, 1940
Creator: Elwell, H. M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a control plot, Red Plains Experiment station. Average annual soil loss from the Bermuda grass plot, bare hard fallow plot and de-surfaced plot. About 10 inches of the surface soilwas removed from the de-surfaced area in 1929 when the experiment was started. This area has been planted to continuous cotton with rows up an down the slope. OK-3348.
Date: December 1940
Creator: Elwell, H. M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of residue from sweet clover in gully control. Clover has lain in gully during winter months and helped to hold moisture and prevent washing of seeds. Clover first seeded in gully in 1936 after sloping of gully banks. Voluntary growth has been maintained each following season. Near Guthrie, Logan Co., OK. Photo by Elvin W. Jenkins, March 11, 1940.
Date: March 11, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0150]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "As the picture above (taken just five days after the run) shows, the various parts of Guthrie consisted principally of a tent city during the early weeks."
Date: November 13, 1940
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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