UNIDENTIFIED Man Mowing Contoured Pasture For Weed Control/Pryor Project

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man with horse drawn equipment mowing a contour ridged pasture for weed control. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Mowing in a contour ridged pasture for weed control.”
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Pasture

Photograph of contour pasture ridges with Bermuda grass on the ridges.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tree Planting

Photograph of Catalpa, locust, Osage, and mulberry trees on contour rows below a terraced field. These trees were planted in the spring of 1938 and have been cultivated twice. To be followed with later pictures.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a farm pond with a riprapped dam completely full of water, the excess of which is being carried off slowly by a solidly sodded Bermuda grass outlet. OK-6577.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Silting and Farm Pond

Photograph of a silting and farm pond. Both have rock riprapped earth dams.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Shocked Barley

Photograph of shocked barley on the contour so that the strip can be planted to cowpeas.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] foreman using a copy of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] cooperative agreement for on-the-job instruction to his enrollees. OK-6981.
Date: December 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of contour pasture ridges planted with Bermuda grass. OK-6570.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Cropping

Photograph of a strip cropped area with wheat, oats, and sweet clover
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFIED Man Mowing Contoured Pasture For Weed Control/Pryor Project

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man with horse drawn equipment mowing a contour ridged pasture for weed control. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mowing in a contour ridged pasture for weed control."
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History