[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0416]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beaver County agent Bill Strom, left, compares heads of standard grain sorghum with loose open head of commercial hybrid grown this year by Lyle Wheeler."
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: Farmer-Stockman Photo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0417]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "J. M. "Curley" Ives, extension district agent; Albert Hodges; Bill Strom, Beaver county agent; and Hodge's son, Albert Jr., examine a strand of sand love grass in sand dunes that a few years ago were bare of vegetation."
Date: November 23, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigation Ditch

Photograph of a field of Milo being prepared for irrigation in February 1956; grade of rows was .1 foot per 100 feet; canvas dams used in main ditch to make ponds from which to siphon from.
Date: August 1, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Row Irrigation

Photograph of Milo planted in 38" rows being watered from irrigation ditch; land prepared for row irrigation February 1956 survey made some 2 months earlier; note a slight low spot near ditch constitutes additional work to make water start going; Mr. Wheeler with shovel.
Date: August 1, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History