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Newly Set Coastal Bermuda
Photograph of newly set Coastal Bermuda. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows made by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958.
Date:
May 11, 1958
Creator:
McCollum, W. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grassland Utilization
Photograph of raking three windrows at one time behind combine preceeding baleing. This operation follows immediately after combining. The type of baler used requires a large windrow for efficient operation. This land is also used for pasture. The cattle were taken off on May 10 to allow time for the clover seed to mature. 40 pounds of cleaned seed per acre were harvested from this land.
Date:
July 11, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grassland Utilization
Photograph of a wind rower attachment to mower to windrow mixture of yellow hop clover, bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza so seed in yellow hop clover can be combined with pick-up attachment on combine. Windrower turns swath gently with minimum loss of seed. Note how bottom end of stems are turned out holding leaves unside for ideal curing of hay. Windrower and pick-up attachment on combine permit drying efficently and harvesting for seed. Ater combining of seed, grass and clover will be baled for winter feed. Cattle were removed from this pasture on May 10.
Date:
July 11, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pasture Development
Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Henry, Andy, and Phillip Roye, sons of owner, operating machine. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five
Date:
July 11, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Buffalo Grazing on Loamy Prairie
Photograph of Range sites, Loamy Prairie. Buffalo grazing on an area of Loamy Prairie range site in excellent condition. Moderate use as it appears in the spring season.
Date:
May 11, 1961
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shallow Range Site
Photograph of the Shallow Range Site. Clumps of bushes are wild plum, and skunkbrush sumac. Dominant grasses are sideoats grama and hairy grama, tall dropseed, little bluestem, with big bluestem and Indiangrass in deeper soil pockets. Legumes are sensitive briar, yellow neptunia, prairie clover, dalea. Other forbs (sp) are western ragweed and broomweed. Other woody plants are prickley pear and other cactus.
Date:
July 11, 1958
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Roadside Erosion Control
Photograph of Severe gullying of roadside channels has been halted by sloping and sodding the banks and sodding the slopes to Bermuda grass. Work completed last part of June, 1940. Roadsides are now being utilized for terrace outlet channels. When work was started, the gullies on each side of the road were cutting back into the fields and damaging the fence. Yukon Camp.
Date:
October 11, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Residue Utilization
Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.
Date:
July 11, 1959
Creator:
Chance, R. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Residue Utilization
Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.
Date:
July 11, 1959
Creator:
Chance, R. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Sill Conservation Planning
Photograph of trees and brush growing in roadside4 burrow area. To facilitate maintenance and proper function of the drainage way, trees and brush should be removed. Near west end of south boundary road (east).
Date:
April 11, 1968
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Modern Hay Loading Equipmant
Photograph of Lee Roark with modern hay loading equipment.
Date:
July 11, 1968
Creator:
Perryman, Tom
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Sill Conservation Planning
Photograph of streambed erosion-stabilization measures are needed. Improved area, NE of Stockade.
Date:
April 11, 1968
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of a range workshop held on the R.C. White Ranch. C. E. Kingary, regional conservationist (RC), discussing range classes with Soil Conservation Service (SCS) employees. Left to right: James E. Smith, Foy Hendrix, John W. Thomas, Hubert Murray, William W. Fuller, Morton Hay and C.E. Kingery. No OK ID number.
Date:
October 11, 1962
Creator:
Hager, P. E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grassland Utilization. Baling Bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza for the hay following combining of big yellow hop clover seed. The hay yield was 35 bales per acre and the seed yield was 40 pounds per acre. This field is also used as pasture. The cattle were taken off the field on May 10, 1956 to allow time for grass and lespedeza growth for hay and for the seed to mature for combining. Cattle were placed on this immediately after this harvest. OK-334-5.
Date:
July 11, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of part of a 30 acre field retired from cultivation and seeded in sorghum stubble to weeping lovegrass the last of March 1945. In July of this year Mr. Burt Yowell harvested 100 pounds of seed from part of the field. The lovegrass was grazed in the winter of 1945 and part of the summer of 1946. OK-90908.
Date:
September 11, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Camp Rice Arroyo Watershed
Photograph of blue grama at Camp Rice Arroyo Watershed.
Date:
September 11, 1950
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
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
Jim Ragland
Photograph of School Superintendent Jim Ragland holding a Bermuda grass runner used for the Wetumka Highschool football field.
Date:
October 11, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Destroyed Home and Cars after May 10, 1950 Flood
Photograph of the aftermath of the May 10, 1950 flood. Note the completely destroyed home and several wrecked cars. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Willow Creek and Magnolia Street - Flood of May 10, 1950.”
Date:
May 11, 1950
Creator:
Terbush
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Aerial Shot of a Floodwater Retarding Structure on Site 14 Chigley Sandy Creek
Photograph of an aerial shot of a floodwater retarding structure on Site 14 Chigley Sandy Creek. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Floodwater Retarding Structure. D. A. 979 A., total cap. 432. 52 A. F. total area 53 A., sed. Storage 1.0 in., flood storage 4.3 in. 69,000 cu. yd.”
Date:
October 11, 1955
Creator:
Brune, G. M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention.
Photograph of a rotary drill used to making test wells for irrigation. OK-357.
Date:
May 11, 1939
Creator:
Haines, R. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of loamy bottomland and slickspot range sites in excellent condition. There was little if any use during the growing season. Lower left corner is inland saltgrass. Lower right corner is alkali sacaton grass on an elevated area. The short grass is whorled dropseed. Spots of mid grass is alkali sacaton. The tall vegetation is abig sedge and eastern gama, switchgrass growing in an area of loamy soil. Some rhombopod grass is growing on alkali spots. The soil is (3Ø). Fort slickspot complex. OK-1175-6.
Date:
August 11, 1960
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Charcoal Briquette Plants
Photograph of the largest charcoal and briquette plant west of the Mississippi. OK-1154-5.
Date:
October 11, 1961
Creator:
Warth, Peter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of erosion control. Automatic sprigging machine planting common Bermudagrass roots on the 2:1 back slope of the dam at Site # 22 of the Big Wewoka Creek watershed. The tractor and the sprigger are held in place by a catepillar tractor on top of dam. This grass is being planted to prevent erosion on the dam. It is being fertilized at the time of planting and will be irrigated to get it established. OK-640-4.
Date:
September 11, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History