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

Active Sand Dunes

Photograph of active sand dunes becoming stabilized with the use of blow-out grass and sand bluestem grass. The sand in these dunes was blown up from the North Canadian river bottom.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Midland Bermuda Grass Pasture

Photograph of a Midland Bermuda Grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954 pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasture 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

Stuve's Lespedeza

Photograph of Stuve's lespedeza along margin of Blackjack timber in highway borrow ditch.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Erosion Control

Photograph of wind erosion control. Homemade wind erosion coontrol made of old tires spaced at 20 feet intervals to try to check wind erosoion on the county road. These tires are used to slow wind erosion until vegitation can get started in the borrow ditch.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Erosion Control

Photograph of home made erosion control made of old tires spaced at 20 foot intervals to try to check wind erosion on the county road. These tires are used to slow wind erosion until vegetation can get started in the borrow ditch.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Root System of Giant Reed Grass

Photograph of the root system of giant reed grass exposed by wind action. Giant reed grass will eventually stabilize this active blowing if deferred from grazing.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Planting Maize

Photograph of planting maize on land that has been lev3eled and is to be irrigated.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History