Cover Crop Broomcorn

Photograph of snow in Broomcorn stalks, soil unit (12-AB) Dalhart loamy fine sand; stubble had limited pasturing.
Date: January 7, 1957
Creator: Murphy, Ralph
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fescue Lodino Clover Pasture

Photograph of a Fescue-Ladino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil-5% slope, has produces and still producing excellent pasture. Lime-fertilized-managed.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cover Crop Sorghum

Photograph of snow in sorghum stubble on soil unit 70-A. Dalhart fine sandy loam. Stubble was left 15" high and not pastured.
Date: January 7, 1957
Creator: Murphy, Ralph
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sericea Lespedeza

Photograph of Sericea Lespedeza being used as soil builder on Soil Bank Land. James Hickman was not ready to go to pasture and eand was still unsuitable for cultivation as mapped by SCS Soils Technicians. After a period of years this land will be returned to production of grain and fiber crops or maintained as Sericea meadow for Hickman's cow heard.
Date: July 16, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Combining Cheyenne Indian Grass

Photograph of combining Cheyenne Indiangrass seed.Seeded in 1958. Seed for this planting furnished by Plant Material Center.
Date: September 18, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Native Grass

Photograph of four self-propelled 14' combines with operator and sacker on each combine. C.S. Thompson, resident of Ponca City and owner of the ranch, standing on first combine. C.E. Riley, Pawnee contractor standing in front of the combines. The ranch is over 5000 acres and approximately 2000 acres is being harvested for native grass seed.
Date: October 28, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Native Grass

Photograph of a native grass harvest. Approximately 2000 acres of this 5000 acre ranch is being harvested for native grass seed. Picture shows loading seed from combine to truck. C.E. Dilley, of Pawnee, is the contractor.
Date: October 28, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigation, Transcrete Pipe

Photograph of Transcrete pipe being laid for irrigation on bottomland soil unit 9. Gated pipe will be used from risers on 660' runs.
Date: July 15, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Field Ready for Planting

Photograph of a field ready for planting and trip crops. The even width strips are to be planted to corn and cotton, one strip planted to corn and the next to cotton. The variable width strips are now planted to a winter cover crop of wheat which will be plowed under and planted to sowed cane as a close growing erosion resistant crop.
Date: March 18, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tennant Cooperator Plowing on the Contour

Photograph of a tennant cooperator plowing on the contour. Taken to illustrate an article by Mr. Ivy M. Howard. Part of the "Muskogee Project."
Date: December 9, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Boggy Flats

Photograph looking north of junction in road to Cut-throat Cap and Sugar Creek Spring. During drought period of 1953-56 this area was dominated by short grasses. Note the present vegetation containing a high percentage of little bluestem resulting from good management coupled with favorable climatic period. Taken during annual Soil Conservation Service cooperative grazing use check.
Date: April 11, 1962
Creator: Whittington, Fred
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Enclosure West of Grama Lake

Photograph of an enclosure west of Grama Lake in hilly stoney site. Big bluestem dominant with hairy grama and puffsheeth dropseed.
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Mud Cracks

Photograph of deep mud cracks in recent deposition on Salt Creek lood plain.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Far Reaching Gullies

Photograph of three main arteries of gullies which are so far-reaching and damaging that the whole quarter section of land has been abandonded for some time. The gullies are from three to fifteen feet deep and were caused by improper cultivation without terraces.
Date: September 30, 1936
Creator: Slack
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oklahoma State Fish Hatchery No 1

Photograph of in the background is the Okla. State fish hatchery. In the foregroundis Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hollander of SCS. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Enclosure on Boulder Ridge Site

Photograph of an enclosure on the Boulder Ridge Site. Arthur Holleran, Wildlife Management Biologist. Recreation pasture, first ridge east of headquarters. East slope, SW of exhibition pasture gate.
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oklahoma State Fish Hatchery No 1

Photograph of in the background is the Okla. State fish hatchery. In the foregroundis Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hollander of SCS. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bull Elk at Pasture

Photograph of bull Elk in exhibition pasture. Boulder Ridge range in good condition.
Date: November 20, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Buffalo Grazing on Mt. Scott Pasture

Photograph of buffalo on area o concentration just north of Mt. Scott pasture gate. Buffalo over-use this area attempting to move to other pasture that they have used or grazed in the past.
Date: April 15, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Elm Sp.

Photograph of Elm Sp. Showing use and hedging at base of tree primarily by deer. Just east of Fulingim Flat at Goodin Spring. Arthur F. Halloran, Wildlife Mgt. Biologist.
Date: April 14, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Guage in Eastern Gama

Photograph of a grass guage in eastern Gama. Arthur F. Holloran, Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, left. Mr. Joe B. Morris, Range Conservationist and student trainees from Texas.
Date: August 11, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Graham Flat Enclosure

Photograph of the Graham Flat Enclosure on the west end of Graham Flat in the east part of the Big Game Pasture. Flats site (loamy bottom in excellent condition, light utilization). Flattened appearance of vegetation near enclosure is largely due to characteristic lodging of big bluestem, plus some trampling and bedding damage by buffalo.
Date: April 14, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Enclosure below Cutthroat Dam

Photograph of an enclosure below Cutthroat Dam in NW corner of Big Game Pasture
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Buffalo Grazing on Skyline

Photograph of Buffalo on skyline and slope grazing on Hilly range site in excellent condition.
Date: May 12, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History