Orville Austin Seed Plot of Hairy Vetch and Balboa Rye
Description:
Photograph of Orville Austin standing in a recently seeded field of hairy vetch and Balboa rye. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of hairy vetch (20#) and Balboa rye (1 bu.) seeded with combination (16 disk, 7-inch spacing) drill with fertilizer and grass seeder attachments with 175 lbs. of superphosphate applied per acre at time of planting. This field was planted to hairy vetch and Balboa rye and seed crop was harvested in July 1942 with combine. The straw and stubbl…
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Date:
October 7, 1942
Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society