Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a gully on the Doug Gray farm before shaping and sprigging to Bermuda grass.
Date: April 1973
Creator: Ball, Dale
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a gully on the Doug Gray farm before shaping and sprigging to Bermuda grass.
Date: April 1973
Creator: Ball, Dale
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Round Stem Bull Rush Harvesting

Photograph of Raymond Alberson, French Gunn and Ken Locke, Federal Wildlife Service, harvesting Round Stem Bull Rush at the Federal Fish Hatchery near Reagan. The photograph does not identify the left to right positions of Alberson, Gunn, and Locke. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Raymond Alberson, French Gunn and Ken Locke, Federal Wildlife Service, harvesting Round Stem Bull Rush to be planted in sediment pool areas flood prevention structures on Chigley Sandy Watershed. These plants are used primarily for water fowl cover.”
Date: April 25, 1958
Creator: Lowe, Sam D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a homemade border packer filled with concrete. OK-148-2.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seeding King Ranch Bluestem

Photograph of seeding King Ranch bluestem with grass drill. Seedbed was prepared with 10 ft. offset disc and harvested after first light rain. This old field area had been used for annual lespedeza pasture prior to the droughts of 1952 and 1953. John Bullman on tractor.
Date: April 16, 1954
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History