Harvesting Grasses From 70 Acre Old Cultivated Field on the John Briscoe Ranch

Photograph of Part of seventy-acre old cultivated field retired & planted on the John Briscoe Ranch. Curtis Hudson, Cooperator and on the tractor, and his brother Dillard seen harvesting the little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and Blue grama grasses in this field. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Curtis Hudson, 2. Dillard Hudson. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Part of 70 acre old cultivated field retired & planted to little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and Blue grama grasses about the 1st of March 1945. Mixture was seeded at rate of about 12# per acre. This 10 acres was seeded for permanent pasture on clean cotton land. Yield is estimated to be 30 to 35# combined material per ac. Briscoe retired 135 acres last year on this farm & 65 acres on another farm he owns. Next year he plans to plant 20 additional acres of bluestem on a field now in rye & vetch. Driving the tractor is Curtis Hudson, cooperator, 1 mi. east of Geary, while his brother Dillard, rides the combine.