Personnel, Lemuel F. Ball

Photograph of Lemuel F. Ball, Area Conservationist, SCS, Claremore, Okla.
Date: February 6, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of Boley Camp cooperative garden planted using contour farming methods by CCC workers. Contour farming: planting and cultivating crops around a hill rather than up and down the hill so the rows create a dam effect that slows water run-off. OK-5645.
Date: May 6, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Griffin water and tool truck. OK-584-7.
Date: December 6, 1957
Creator: Brune, Gunner M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds, Association Meetings

Photograph of Tom Wharton, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Planning Engineer explains detention site location map to members of the Stillwater Creek Watershed Association at the regular monthly meeting. Officers and directors facing camera, L to R: Chilton Swank, legal advisor; Lester Ham, president; Allen Denn, Chairman, Conservancy District; Tom Wharton, Planning Engineer, SCS; G. W. Dowell, Soil Conservation District [SCD] Representative and Ruben Joy, City Commissioner. OK-1563-2.
Date: March 6, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of an Acker power auger. OK-584-11.
Date: December 6, 1957
Creator: Brune, Gunner M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a failing 1500 rotary drilling rig. OK-584-4.
Date: December 6, 1957
Creator: Brune, Gunner M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the discing of old contour ridges which have been plowed in as preparation for a Bermuda grass seed bed. OK-6297.
Date: April 6, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seeding Bermuda Grass

Photograph of harrowing contour ridges which have been plowed in to the center and disced in preparing a Bermuda grass seed bed.
Date: April 6, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds, Association Meetings

Photograph of the Stillwater Creek Watershed Association's regular monthly meeting. Officers and representatives in the picture. L to R: standing, Cecil Wildman, Soil Conservation Service [SCS]; Ruben Jay, City Commissioner; Tom Wharton, SCS; Lester Ham, President. Backs to the camera, L to R: Gerald Bilyeu, Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor; Ray Henderson, Vice president; Sam Myers, Chamber of Commerce [?; C of C] Representative. Others facing camera, L to R: Chilton swank, legal advisor; Allen dean, Chairman, Conservation District; E. W. Schroeder, Conservancy District Engineer; Tony dean, Secretary of the Association; G. W. Dowell, SCD Representative. OK-1563-1.
Date: March 6, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History