Misc. Title Screen Layout

Photograph of a title layout that was made by using Hernard 3-D title letters on a lithographic America The Beautiful print. Note. Shadow effect by using the raised letters. Color slides wre made by using the raised letters. Color slides were made of the same picture with amazing results.
Date: September 6, 1966
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a new type of pasture mowing machine which was made by W. H. DuPay from the rear ends of Model A Ford cars and pipes. The blades on the machine were removed from a one-row stalk cutter. Mowers in tandem will cut 11 feet in one month and will cut only weeds. Sprouts approximately the size of a man’s thumb can be cut. This pasture was mowed with the machine. Note weeds near the fence. These 3 mowers cost approximately $110 to manufacture. They are hitched in tandem when mowing and as moved along a road they can be hooked one behind the other with the blades inverted. W. H. DuPuy states the mowers will do the work in one day of more than 3 tractor mowers and there is very little maintenance. Wheels of the mowers furnish the power to turn the blades. The machine works on the same basis as the homemade superphosphates distributor. TX-46, 157.
Date: September 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Ed Jenkins, Soil Conservation District [SCD] Co-operator [left] and J. L. Coppodge [right] inspect this 20 acre planting of sericea lespedeza to determine the stage for seed harvesting. The sericea was planted in 3 foot rows in April, 1948 for pasture. Mr. Jenkins states that the sericea has afforded excellent pasture and that his cattle have eaten it readily. TX-47-274.
Date: September 7, 1950
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of range cattle at watering trough. Typical [illegible] farm, heavily overgrazed. TX-42-243.
Date: September 26, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of blue grama grass drilled with a SCS drill in June, 1948. 1948 and 1949 were dry years and little grass showed up. In 1950, good rains fell and now grass covered borrow ditch of water spreading terraces. Some weeping lovegrass and Lehman's lovegrass are present. TX-47-310.
Date: September 11, 1950
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fiber Cultivation

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board chairman Olean (left) and Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician Albert T. Jordan (right) inspect a strand of cotton planted where guar was grown last year. Cotton planted as two rows in and one out. At left is cotton following cotton. Practically no cotton will be harvested around here this year because of drought. I 2 RR. TX-48, 201.
Date: September 9, 1952
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fiber Cultivation

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board Chairman Olson (left) and Soil Conservation Service technician, Albert T. Jordan [right] standing in a field of cotton following cotton. Drought has ruined this cotton, planted 2 in and 2 out following. In the background in the 10-acre field of cotton planted 2 in and 1 out following soil-improving guar. I 2 RR. TX-48, 204.
Date: September 9, 1952
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of cattle on pasture land.
Date: September 26, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an old area. By fencing on the pasture side, instead of the cropland side, the ditch is well-vegetated and protected from erosion. Such odd areas provide nesting sites for quail and a habitat for wild, pollinating insects.
Date: September 21, 1948
Creator: Davis, D. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of a mesquite eradication studies program on the Jay Taylor ranch showing a sparse stand of mesquite, with good blue grama grass. Dead limbs of mesquite may be seen. Notice the two automobiles on the trail. Section 28. TX-1690.
Date: September 16, 1941
Creator: Caird, Ralph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of an old area of land. By fencing it on the pasture side rather than the cropland side, the ditch is well-vegetated and protected from erosion. Such odd areas provide nesting sites for quail and a habitat for wild pollenating insects. TX-44, 673.
Date: September 21, 1948
Creator: Davis, D. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of an old area of land. By fencing it on the pasture side rather than the cropland side, the ditch is well-vegetated and protected from erosion. Such odd areas provide nesting sites for quail and a habitat for wild pollenating insects. TX-44, 673.
Date: September 21, 1948
Creator: Davis, D. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of three ways of vegetative multiplication of Johnsongrass. Tillers, rhizomes and auxillary buds. TX-170-4.
Date: September 2, 1955
Creator: Huckabee, DeWitt
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of seed heads of Eragrostis Superba, a new lovegrass. It has no common name.TX-43-892.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of old planting of Weeping Lovegrass. Planted on weed cover around 1948. TX-201-12.
Date: September 28, 1955
Creator: Ebersole, J. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Camp Rice Arroyo Watershed

Photograph of blue grama at Camp Rice Arroyo Watershed.
Date: September 11, 1950
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Winter Cover Crop and John Deere Tractor

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing in a winter cover crop next to a John Deere tractor with a planter attached. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Winter cover crop (vetch, etc.) planter attached to the front of the tractor with cultivator attached. The planter is shop made from an old grain drill and broadcasts the seed in front of cultivator that covers the seed. One way to plant cover crop at the same time cotton or sorghum are given their last cultivation."
Date: September 23, 1947
Creator: Hartman, M. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of heads of silver bluestem (Andropogon saccharoides). TX-44, 659.
Date: September 22, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of blue panic grass seeded in March, 1947. A seed crop in June yielded 300 to 400 pounds per acre. Another seed crop will be available around November. There has been only 1 ½ inches of rain on this stand since it was cut for seed in June. TX-43, 881.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of curly mesquite, with stolon development apparent. TX-43, 887.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Indian grass, little bluestem and other native grasses making an excellent recovery from a drought as growing in bulldozed cedar. TX-48-813.
Date: September 30, 1953
Creator: Keng, E. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of seedling King Ranch [K.R.] bluestem and sideoats grasses making good growth, along with native grasses in pushed cedar. K.R. bluestem, sideoats grama and blue grama were seeded with attachment on bulldozer to drop seed in holes made where trees were pushed out. TX-48-814.
Date: September 30, 1953
Creator: Keng, E. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of apparent flooding around Marfa, Texas {Photo text to faded and broken up for legibility].
Date: September 27, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fiber Cultivation

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board Chairman Olson (left) and Soil Conservation Service technician, Albert T. Jordan [right] standing in a field of cotton following cotton. Drought has ruined this cotton, planted 2 in and 2 out following. In the background in the 10-acre field of cotton planted 2 in and 1 out following soil-improving guar. I 2 RR. TX-48, 205.
Date: September 9, 1952
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History