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Photograph of a clip board designed for holding engineering field notes while working on the farm. This clipboard was developed by E. E. Ray, a Work Group Engineer headquartered at Fort Smith, Arkansas. See the “A” photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a 2B model, Krussow Double spiral 2-unit seed separator which operates by gravity and can be utilized in separating balboa rye seed (oblong) from hairy vetch seed (round) after chaff and foreign matter have been removed by a regular seed cleaner. A Future Farmers of America [FFA] demonstration that bags, separates and cleans their own and farmers' seeds in their area on a custom basis to raise funds for their chapter. AR-16, 42. Cf. https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1773213/
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Field

Photograph of a grass field.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a number of cows grazing a in pasture, with trees visible along the edges in the background. Handwritten note on back: "Pasture mgt. This pasture has lost about forty percent of the forage by not having the [cow] droppings scattered. J.A. Treadway Mt. Ida, ARK"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Poteau River Basin Association Meeting

Photograph of "Rev. John E. Evens, chairman of the Poteau River Basin Association speaking to the fifth annual meeting of the association." With the exception of Evans, who is at the microphone podium, there are over 50 UNIDENTIFIED people in the photograph's foreground and background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Poe, Buford
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodlands

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Technician Andrew Costner and Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) board member Jack Rabourn discuss a pine area on a soil best suited to woodland use. OK-2483-7.
Date: August 4, 1966
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodlands

Photograph of landowner Jack Rabourn observes as a Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Technician uses a woodland stick in discussion of the landowner's woodland program of management. OK-2453-8.
Date: February 4, 1966
Creator: Costner, Andrew
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Praying Hands in a Wheat Field

Photograph of hands, in a prayer stance, rising from a wheat field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Give us this day our daily bread."
Date: May 2, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the W.J. Alderson farm, showing Herefords on pasture established in 1950 on severly eroded Crowfley’s Ridge. AR-61-878.
Date: August 19, 1953
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Application of Lime to Sericea

Photograph of UNIDENTIFIED farmer applying lime to sericea. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Applying lime to sericea."
Date: July 16, 1953
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ouachita River Bottom Land

Photograph of Ouachita River Bottom Land seeded with Bermuda grass.
Date: November 13, 1952
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cattle

Photograph of a herd of Fred Burroughs' cattle.
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seed Planter

Photograph of a four-row seed planter.
Date: July 5, 1952
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fescue

Photograph of fescue plants.
Date: April 1, 1951
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a poor cow on poor pasture.
Date: August 17, 1950
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

P. L. Blackshire

Photograph of P. L. Blackshire, pioneer in Kentucky 31 fescue seed production, standing in a seed field.
Date: May 23, 1950
Creator: Millard, T. T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a rolling flint land in solid stand of orchard grass. AR. 61-478
Date: April 24, 1950
Creator: Millard, T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Mechanical Harvester

Photograph of a farmer using a mechanical harvester on Bermuda grass. The machine was designed by Lewis Doss and H. K. Sager.
Date: July 1949
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lewis Doss

Photograph of Lewis Doss next to the Bermuda grass root harvester he designed with H. K. Sager.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Prof. C. X. McClelland and a class of WW II, veterans and Asst. Prof. W. J. Wiser standing in part of 110 acres of sericea lespedeza. The sericea is now in its 14th growing season and has produced better than 2 tons of hay per acre each year.
Date: July 3, 1945
Creator: Lee, Thomas P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

W. H. Sayler

Photograph of W. H. Sayler standing next to one of his twenty-three cows.
Date: October 17, 1944
Creator: Webb, Gordon C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History