Caddo Switch Grass

Photograph of irrigated Caddo Switchgrass planted for seed production. This is a selection out of native switch grass. It is excellent for hay, pasture and seed production.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Closed Terraces

Photograph of channel type terraces constructed in 1951. These are closed terraces. Note the water held by the terraces on the morning after 2 inch rain and hail storm with a small tornado. This field has been placed in the Acreage Reserve program. This land will be summer fallowed and will be drilled to wheat for the fall of 1958.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Constructing Channel Type Terraces

Photograph of constructing channel type terraces with an excavator type terracing machine. This is the first farm in Dewey Co. Soil Conservation District that is participating with the Great Plains Conservation Program.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigated Coronado Side Oats

Photograph of irrigated Coronado Side Oats grama grass planted for seed production. This grass will make two seed crops per year and will produce from 200 to 400 pounds of seed per acre under irrigation. It is excellent grass to use in native grass mixtures for seeding cultivated land back to grass.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elementary schools in Putnam City school system have been singled out to participate in a nationwide health screening program to detect kidney diseases, the president of the National Kidney Foundation said Sunday."
Date: January 19, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0458]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lee Craig, 78, remembers coming to Trail from Arkansas in a covered wagon."
Date: November 19, 1985
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0348.0409]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don Kyle"
Date: August 19, 1986
Creator: Hoke, Doug
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307B.0154]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 19, 1986
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History