Caves & Speleology

Photograph looking out of the Cave Springs caves. OK-1460-5.
Date: September 25, 1961
Creator: Warth, Peter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cecil Reinhart Wind Strip & Rotation Hay and Pasture

Photograph of Cecil Reinhart kneeling in a four acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7x AB Pratt fine sandy loam soil. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rotation Hay and Pasture. 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7x AB Pratt fine sandy loam soil. Reinhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800 lb. seed on the 4 acres. After 5 years the strips are plowed up and other strips are seeded to control wind erosion."
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Charley Connelly

Photograph of Charley Connelly standing next to his dairy herd.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Charley Connelly

Photograph of Charley Connelly standing next to his dairy herd.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Clarence E. Bunch and A Field of Big Bluestem Grasses

Photograph of "Clarence E. Bunch, flood control agronomist for the Washita River watershed who was in charge of native grasses seed harvest in Northeast Oklahoma, stands in excellent big bluestem."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Composite Surface Soil Sample

Photograph of J. A. Killough in fourth of a series: How to take a composite surface soil sample. After you have taken a thin slice of soil from the hole, take a core about a half inch wide from the center of the slice and place in a clean bucket. Repeat for each spot selected within the field or area to be sampled.
Date: January 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Composite Surface Soil Sample

Photograph of J. A. Killough in second of a series: How to take a composite surface soil sample. At each spot the plant growth, trash or mulch is cleared from the ground where the hole is to be dug.
Date: January 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Composite Surface Soil Sample

Photograph of J. A. Killough in fifth of a series; How to take a compostie surface soil sample. After soil is taken from each spot selected from the area to be treated it is thoroughly mixed. Two or three hand fulls of this mixed sample is placed in a clean bag and tagged with required information. Sample should not be mixed from different areas to be treated.
Date: January 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Composite Surface Soil Sample

Photograph of J. A. Killough in third of a series: How to take a composite surface soil sample. Dig hole depth of surface soil through plow depth. Then take a thin slice of soil (1/2" to 3/4" thick) from the hole. This is repeated from each spot selected within the field or area to be sampled.
Date: January 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Composite Surface Soil Sample

Photograph of J. A. Killough in first of a series: How to take a composite surface soil sample. Farmer planning to take his soil sample, necessary equipment, a sharpshooter or spade and a clean bucket.
Date: January 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree, the Stubble Mulch Judging Site--Louis Derr, State Soil Scientiist, SCS, Stubble Mulch Judging Committee in charge of this site and hole. OK-1622-6.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of 3rd place 4-H Club team from Custer County, Oklahoma, at the Stubble Mulch judging school held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. Left to right: Arica Page, Scott Smith and Tony. OK-1624-1.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of contestants and interested spectators observing machinery dispalyed at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1621-12.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of one of the great many pieces of equipment on exhibition at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. Davies plow hooked to a Massey-Ferguson tractor. This is a sweep plow. OK-1621-6.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of contestants in the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Judging Contest held in conjunction wit the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1622-5.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of a group of 4-H and F.F.A. contestants receiving information from Fred Dries, Soil Scientist, SCS, during the stubble mulch judging contest held at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree, July 24-25, 1962, at Enid, Oklahoma. OK-1622-9.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree, the first place 4-H club team from Garfield County at the Stubble Mulch Judging Contest in the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1623-9.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of Maurice Gamble, Conservation Agronomist, SCS, in a training session showing amounts by which straw is reduced from the surface by various tillage methods at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1621-4.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of Stubble Mulch Contest at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1622-10.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree --open to 4-H Clubs, F.F.A. teams, adults and individuals. One of the sites being judged. OK-1622-7.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of contestants in the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Judging Contest held in conjunction wit the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1622-4.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of contestants and interested spectators observing machinery dispalyed at the 2nd Annual Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, July 24-25, 1962. OK-1621-11.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of a channel-type terrace built with farm equipment. OK-195-8.
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: Evans, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Furrows in Pasture

Photograph of contour furrows in pasture. Made with 2-row lister on right, alternating 42 inches and 17.5 feet apart; on left, 7 feet apart made with 3-row lister. Approximately 1.5 lb blue grama grass seed per acre seeded along furrows immediately after furrowing.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History