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Deadening of Hardwoods by Girdling
Photograph of SCS Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke points out the first deadening of cull hardwood. Note effect of pine release by axe girdling of this large oak.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hobart Camp Wheat Project
Photograph of cutting and threshing wheat on the contour with a combine in a terraced field. The wheat was drilled in with a deep furrowed drill on the contour.
Date:
July 15, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of water standing in lister furrows and terrace channel after a four-inch rain in a cotton field planted on the contour.
Date:
July 15, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Erosion Control
Photograph of a cotton field with rows running up and down the hill during a 4-inch rain. Note the relatively small amount of water in the rows. It is running down in the hill and emptying into the wash in the background. This wash is cutting directly across the filed and is over 100 feet wide and about 18 inches deep. This picture was taken the same time as picture number Okla. 5837. Contract the pictures for the value of contour farming. This farm is situated directly North across Highway No. 9 of the Thayer farm shown in picture number Okla. 5837.
Date:
July 15, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigation, Transcrete Pipe
Photograph of Transcrete pipe being laid for irrigation on bottomland soil unit 9. Gated pipe will be used from risers on 660' runs.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of H.R. Wells, biologist, left, and M.D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a western wheatgrass planting. This native, cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This ;iving grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman's Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Eastern Gamagrass Identification
Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, Oklahoma City highschool students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. 4-H and FFA groups have found the plots helpful for review work in training for the National Land, Range and Pasture Contest sponsored each year by WKY and WKY-TV in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman's Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Expostion. OK-298-7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of water standing in lister furrows and terrace channel after a four-inch rain in a cotton field planted on the contour. OK-5839.
Date:
July 15, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a close up of photo OK-1362-7, in which Soil Conservation Service {SCS] Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke points out the first deadening of cull hardwood. Note the effect of the pine release by axe girdling of this large oak. OK-1362-8.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Exhibitions and Presentations
Photograph of H.R. Wells, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Biology Specialist in Oklahoma, studies the value of Vanada wild rye for food and cover for wildlife. This cool season native grass is a good source of food for quail, as well as excellent for grazing and, additionally, erosion. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Oklahoma chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedmen’s Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-9.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of H. R. Wells, biologist, left, and M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a Western wheatgrass planting. This native cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, right, Oklahoma City high school students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Conservation Planning
Photograph of a crowd of 400 ranchers and farmers looking at grasses and other plants at the first stop on the Range Conservation Field Day held by the Association of Hill Country Soil Conservation Districts [SCD]. Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, B. W. Allred led the discussion on the tour. This pasture has been conservatively grazed and rested since March 15. Note the good grasses in the foreground. TX-46, 950.
Date:
July 15, 1950
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch
Photograph of a close-up picture of stubble mulch. Mr. Staton stubble mulches wheat land with Holme followed with heavy duty double tandem disc to work muclh into surface soil. Average wheat yield is 40 bushels per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Catfish Hatching Troughs
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens places catfish spawn in hatching troughs. Spawn are aerated through use of mechanical agitators.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Weeping Lovegrass
Photograph of weeping lovegrass seeded on Soil Unit 12. A lot of wind erosion had taken place as evidenced by sand hummocks along field boundary. 125 pounds 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre applied with grain drill. Seeded April 1959.
Date:
July 15, 1959
Creator:
Riley, K. E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology Catfish Spawn
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens displaying catfish spawn taken from nest from one of his brood ponds.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cattle
Photograph of A. H. Hancock's cattle.
Date:
July 15, 1953
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of flood water damage. Bridge abutment and approach on Little Cane. Creek washed only-in flood on July 12, 1958. Damage to roads and bridges was extensive from this flood. There were 2 overflows to date in 1958 and 3 in 1957. Damage to the bridge is being inspected by John Crooch, Soil Conservation Service. OK-631-6.
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of flood water damage. Sonny Flack, operator, surveying the damage done to freshly cut alfalfa in a Cane Creek Bottom field. This hay is no longer of any use and must be picked up and hauled away to prevent it from killing the growing alfalfa which it is resting on. Approximately 25 tons of excellent hay were lost from this overflow, the second in 1958. Cane Creek watershed is not protected from flooding. OK-631-2.
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shinnery Oak Control on Daisy Dunn Bois D' Arc Ranch
Photograph of a field infested by shinnery oak on the Daisy Dunn Bois D' Arc Ranch. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture heavily infested with Shinnery oak. To be sprayed for control under Great Plains Program Contract in spring of 1959."
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tilling Wheat Stubble for Mulch
Photograph of Mr. Staton using a heavy duty tandem disc plow in wheat stubble to till the soil and eradicate present weeds. This method leaves plenty of stubble on the surface for a good mulch at wheat planting time. He says his wheat yields 40 bushels per acre. Class I, Soil Unit 8.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Borders and Irrigation
Photograph of Mr. Staton contour bordered and seeded to Buffalo Alfalfa for seed production. This field has produced 600 pounds of seed per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm. Class III Soil Unit 7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History