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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Weeping lovegrass. Claude Gilbert in a field of weeping lovegrass that was mowed once this year making 1 1/2 tons of hay per acre. Mowed twice in 1955 and yielding 100 ounds of seed per acre which was sold for 65 cents per pound. Gilbert fertilizes his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre each spring. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-9.
Date: November 8, 1956
Creator: Keathley, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Weeping Lovegrass. Claude Gilbert stands by a stack of weeping lovegrass hay. 700 bales cut this year off a 14 acre field. Yield is 1 1/2 tons per acre. Gilbert fertilizer his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of a 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre in the spring of each year. A Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. Gilbert is sold on weeping lovegrass and has needed 80 acres of his eroded cropland to lovegrass. OK-401-8.
Date: November 8, 1956
Creator: Keathley, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Claude Gilbert in a field of weeping lovegrass. That was moved once this year, making 1 ½ tons of hay per acre. Mowed twice in 1955, it yielded 100 pounds of seed per acre which was sold for $0.65 per pound. Gilbert fertilizes his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre each spring. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-9.
Date: November 8, 1956
Creator: Keathley, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass, Claude Gilbert farm. Native grass pasture seeded in 1952. Bluestem on the right and Indian grass on the left. These grasses have not been grazed since they were seeded. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-11.
Date: November 8, 1956
Creator: Keathley, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of the south end of a waterway under construction, looking north. Designed on non-erosive grade for drainage of 1600 acres for 3700 feet spilling into the South Canadian River. It protects several acres of bottom alfalfa land. Photo OK-184-10 shows the waterway before construction. OK-184-12.
Date: November 8, 1955
Creator: Tarrant, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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