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Great Plains Conservation Program
Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.
Date:
February 22, 1972
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Waterway Construction
Photograph of Waterway under construction on the Margaret Shuman land in the Ditch Valley community. This waterway will carry water from 1,000 acres of drainage.
Date:
January 12, 1972
Creator:
Stith, C. E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sorghum Sown in Stubble Mulch
Photograph of sorghum sown in a stubble mulch after one operation with a Noble plow.
Date:
July 22, 1955
Creator:
Stith, Clarence E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cattle Grazing On Properly Managed Range
Photograph of cattle grazing on a properly managed range. February calves creep-fed oats weighing 600 lbs. by September.
Date:
July 22, 1955
Creator:
Stith, Clarence E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sand Dunes
Photograph of sand dunes that wee at one time active becoming stabilized by giant reed bluestem grass.
Date:
July 8, 1955
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tick Clover
Photograph of Tick Clover along margin of blackjack timber growing in borrow ditch. This Tick clover is a wild legume and is doing well along the roadside.
Date:
July 8, 1955
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Planting Maize
Photograph of planting maize on land that has been leveled and is to be irrigated.
Date:
July 8, 1955
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Midland Bermuda Grass Pasture
Photograph of Midland bermuda grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954, pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasxture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.
Date:
July 8, 1955
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigation
Photograph of irrigating small grains by using gated pipe and corrugated rows.
Date:
September 23, 1959
Creator:
Stith, C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigation Riser
Photograph of an 8" pipe leading water from the riser connected to 12" concrete pipe below.
Date:
September 23, 1959
Creator:
Stith, C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Checking Growth of Yellow Sweet Clover
Photograph of SCS Tech. Clarence E. Stith checks growth of biennial yellow sweet clover. Stith planted the clover in the spring of 1952 in this 20 acre wheat field solely to improve the soil, the deep roots opening up the soil for the free circulation of air and water. He also uses hairy vetch turned in to add organic matter. To follow clover with wheat for 4 or 5 years.
Date:
July 3, 1953
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Stubble Mulch Tillage. First time over the tillage with a sweep plow. OK-1693-6.
Date:
July 9, 1964
Creator:
Howard, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management
Photograph of Carey silt loam profile. Note the compound columnar structure and the accumulation of caliche. The A1 horizon is about 12 inches thick, the B2 and B3 are about 2 ½ feet thick and the C ca [ca = pedogenic carbonates = carbonic acids that can that modify soil constituents] horizon extend below this. Entire picture covers 6½ feet of depth, typical of much of Carey soils in Harper County, transported by alluvial-colluvial forces from nearby hills and a weak B horizon has formed in places. Some soils are moderately permeable. OK-304-4.
Date:
July 14, 1956
Creator:
Nance, Earl C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch
Photograph of a good stand of wheat is present in this field where all tillage operations were performed with sweeps.
Date:
November 17, 1960
Creator:
Stith, C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Diversion Dam
Photograph of the head gate of a diversion dam, for irrigation, across Buffalo Creek on Ed George's farm.
Date:
April 11, 1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Settlers Irrigation Ditch
Photograph of where the diversion dam will be constructed across the Cimarron River for the Settlers Irrigation Ditch.
Date:
February 21, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of the main supply ditch for the irrigation of farm land. Water is carried approximately one mile by diversion dam across Buffalo Creek. OK-8113.
Date:
February 21, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch Tillage
Photograph of stubble mulching on wheat land. One time over with the Noble blade.
Date:
August 15, 1960
Creator:
Stith, C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a district-owned native grass seed drill. The drill is an 8-foot combonation seeder equiped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill. OK-133-4.
Date:
July 20, 1955
Creator:
Stith, Clarence
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of bindweed in bloom. OK-342-1.
Date:
July 9, 1956
Creator:
Engelman, Jack E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a crawler-pulling brush chopper. This picture shows sunflower and cockle burr on the bottom pasture land being controlled by a brush chopper. The chopper measure 32 feet wide. OK-101-5.
Date:
July 20, 1955
Creator:
George, Delbert
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigation Concrete Pipe
Photograph of the installation of a 12" underground concrete pipe to furnish water to leveled field to be irrigated by flooding.
Date:
August 27, 1959
Creator:
Stith, C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ditch Valley Irrigation Project
Photograph of (L-R): R.A. Lotspeich and Orvin Shuman, (Harper County farmers) and County Commissioner Oden Sheppard shown at the inlet of two large culverts installed under new farm-to-market road in Harper County. Culverts will be utilized to carry overhead water in the Ditch Valley Irrigation project.
Date:
February 22, 1972
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Great Plains Conservation Program
Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.
Date:
February 22, 1972
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History