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Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes
Photograph of an automobile stalled in sand trap in dust storm on March 26, 1950. Only fields not suffering from erosion in this immediate vicinity are those fields where vetch and small grain furnish cover. OK-10, 359.
Date:
March 26, 1950
Creator:
Gardener, G. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of unloading Atlas Sargo as cut with a silage cutter into the trench silo of approximately 150 tons of capacity. Silo possesses a stone floor. OK-8253.
Date:
September 26, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of small brush which is heavy competition for the native grasses on this pasture. The brush is being mowed and the area will be deferred-grassed in 1958 and 1959 with the area mowed again in 1959. In areas of this pasture where this mowing has been done, the grass is starting to grow. OK-621-12.
Date:
July 26, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of timber control, showing Mr. R. V. Little demonstrating one of his tree injectors on one of his 800 acre pastures. OK-1050-1.
Date:
October 26, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of straw whiskers damming an outlet channel to spread the water and prevent outting while the grass is becoming weel-established. OK-5733.
Date:
May 26, 1937
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Homes
Photograph of a rock house when 50 years old as indicated by the date built as carved in stone over the door. J.T. Porter is in the photo. It was occupied in 1939. Mr. Lester Davis of Reydon, Oklahoma, has recently purchased this farm. OK-816-2.
Date:
February 26, 1959
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of Pasture. Blue River bottom land cleared in 1956. It consisted of wet, poorly drained timber land near worthless pasture before clearing and planting to Midland Bermuda grass and clover. Planted to Bermuda grass in 1957. 500 acre ranch has 200 acres under cultivation. By 1959, it had 135 grown cows and 500 sheep and offspring, using vetch and clover for sown pasture. 10 on hill. 11 on bottom was cleared. OK-1050-10.
Date:
October 26, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing northwest corner of planting area (Field no. 1). On March 17, 1967, 30 rows of grass and legume species were planted east-west. Note flagmarkers. Also in the background is a broadcast grass mixture plot. Prarie hay mulch at the rate of 3 tons per acre was hand spread over the whole area immediately after planting and anchored with a tandem disc. seedbed was compacted with the rubber-tired tractor after mulching. Snow fences are to protect study area from sand drifting. OK-2768-6.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north showing eastern two-thirds and a glimpse of the northwestern portion of the planting area. Snow fences are for wind erosion and sand drift protection. In right foreground, are tree rows without mulch. Right background shows tree rows prairie hay mulched (3 tons per acre), hand-anchored. Tree species include cedar, button bush, sycamore, cottonwood, black locust, sand bar willow and Russian olive. In the left foreground are two plantings of grass selections followed by prairie hay mulch anchored with tandem discs and the seedbed compacted with a rubber-tired tractor. OK-2768-1.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east along south portion of planting area (Field no. 4). This cheat grass (Bromus spp [= species pluralis]) was planted and fertilized in four rows in late September 1966. OK-2767-6.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Filed 6 of field trial on slimes pond. This field consists of unmulched woody species of plantings. Note the seeding growth at this date. Trees received no fertilizer. OK-2768-14.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Grass seedlings were mulched with prairie hay that was hand spread following planting at the rate of 3 tons per acre and anchored with a tandem disc from March 15 - 17, 1967. This shows an adequate mulch cover, but demonstrates by the amount of loose hay on the surface that the tandem disc did not properly anchor this mulch. OK-2767-4.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east showing the southeast section of area. In the foreground are rows of sod-planted grasses. From right to left are rows of switchgrass, broomsedge, bluestem, American beachgrass and then one row divided among three grasses--blowout grass, plumegrass and giant reed. In the background are tree plantings (Field no. 6) unmulched with a mulch border next to snow fences. OK-2768-16.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a pine nursery. Bill Campbell, nursery manager, preparing to plow up trees. Tractor loosens trees with bar, leaving trees loose for hand pulling. Trees are sorted and packed in bundles of 50 trees each. Little River Soil Conservation District crews pick up the trees at the nursery she dfor farm delivery. Three large industrial forest firms give small landowners trees on a tree-for-tree-matched basis. These trees are given to small land owners to encourage them to increase their timber stands. OK-412-1
Date:
November 26, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Field # 6 of a field trial on Slimes Pond. This field is an unmulched woody species of plantings. Note the seedling growth at this date. The trees received no fertilizer. OK-2768-14.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion.
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Drifts of silica. Blow sand from the abandoned Slimes Pond about 160 acres in size lying immediately east of the central mill. Plantings were made along the south side of this area in the fall and spring of 1966 – 1967. OK-2769-6.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north showing the southeast portion of the planting area (Field # 6). These are tree plantings without mulch. Borders of the area are mulched and the north border mulch strip was overseeded on March 16, 1967 to a grass mixture. Tree species are cedar, buttonwood, sycamore, cottonwood, black locust, sand bar willow, tamarix and Russian olive. Snow fences were installed to prevent sand from drifting into the study area. OK-2768-12.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north showing the southeast portion of the planting area (Field # 6). Thi sshows the mulched border along the east side of the unmulched tree plantings--this border was not seeded. Observations will be made on seedling establishement from vegetation along the border of the dam immediately south of the site. OK-2767-1.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Vegetation on an old dike around Slimes Pond being affected by wind erosion, an effect of the fine silica (sand). The dike constructed to hold water and fines [ore and other products with a small particle size] from the flotation process. The pond will eventually fill with fines and is then abandoned. The area devoid of any vegetation is subjected to severe wind erosion. This picture depicts fines covering willows and cottonwood trees upon a dike. The spur railroad must receive periodic fine removal from the road bed. OK-2769-16.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings
Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north showing northwest corner of planting area (Field # 1). On March 17, 1967, 30 rows of grass and legume species were planted east-west. Note flag markers Also in the background is a broadcast grass mixture plot. Prairie hay mulch at the rate of 3 tons per acre was hand spread over the whole area immediately after planting and then anchored with a tandem disc plow. Seedbed was compacted with rubber-tired tractor after mulching. Snow fences are to protect study area from sand drifting. OK-2768-6.
Date:
May 26, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of a guar or cluster bean field. Close up showing seed crop being produced. Jack Idol, ranch manager, in the picture. TX 46, 074.
Date:
August 26, 1949
Creator:
Mika, F. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of the Reese Pole Plant near Heavener. When Soil and Conservation District [SCD] cooperators thin pine stands to D + 6 [= diameter of tree + 6 ft for spacing between trees], the posts ate part of the harvest. These posts are ready for the treatment vat. OK-1480-6.
Date:
September 26, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a pine nursery located on Yashau Creek. The output of this nursery goes largely to cooperators in the Little River Soil Conservation District. The District plants seedlings for cooperators on contract at $0.75 per 100 trees. Approximately 300,000 trees in the District in 1956. Drought reduced the output of the nursery in 1956 by abour 50%. OK-411-12.
Date:
October 26, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grazing cows; range improvement. Pasture has been mowed regularly for weed control and protected from fire. Sale of steers from this pasture has averaged a return of $21.88 per acre in 1939 and $24.00 per acre in 1940. OK-8250.
Date:
September 26, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History