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O. A. Bingman Rejuvenated Pasture/Muskogee Project/Morris Camp #1
Photograph of a “Badly overgrazed pasture which is being rejuvenated by use of contour furrows. Original furrows were on intervals so this year more were constructed with 2-bottom tractor plow and planted to Bermuda.”
Date:
April 16, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
O. A. Bingman Rejuvenated Pasture/Muskogee Project/Morris Camp #2
Photograph of a “Badly overgrazed pasture which is being rejuvenated by use of contour furrows. Original furrows were on intervals so this year more were constructed with 2-bottom tractor plow and planted to Bermuda.”
Date:
April 16, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Badly Damaged Cotton Field
Photograph of a cotton field which has been badly damaged wheee the salt Fork River cut across a bend. The field is now filled with scouring channels 10 to 15 feet wide and 2 feet deep. Other parts of the field is silted in from 2 to 18 inches.
Date:
April 27, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Blackberry Crop Growing on Contour/Duncan Project
Photograph of "Blackberries in bloom planted on contour on hilltop land utilized as a cash crop."
Date:
April 12, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Blown Soil
Photograph of blown soil accumulations in Russian Thistles in highway now 4 feed deep. This was caused by allowing thistles to grow along side of the highway which caught soil moved by wing from the adjoining field.
Date:
April 30, 1937
Creator:
McLean, B. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Civilian Conservation Corps
Photograph of one of the occasional occurences of CCC boys engaged in Soil Conservation Services [SCS] work. The men are unloading the truck of excess weight which caused it to bog down in a small gulley. Others are hitching on a chain to another truck which will help to pull it out. OK-6318.
Date:
April 12, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Complete Loss
Photograph of a wheat field which is completely covered with flood water from the Chickaskia River. This farmer lost his entire wheat crop due to this rise.
Date:
April 23, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Confluence of Chickaskia and Salt Fork Rivers
Photograph of alfalfa field which is sloughting off into the Salt Fork River near its confluence with the Chickaskia. Approximately 20 acres of this 50 acre field has been washed into the river on this bend.
Date:
April 27, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of well-grassed natural draingae to be used as a terrace outlet channel. OK-5619.
Date:
April 23, 1937
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Ridge Construction by Three UNIDENTIFIED Men/Elk City Project
Photograph of three UNIDENTIFIED men constructing contour ridges on a field, which has been in cultivation but is being retired to permanent pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Construction of contour ridges on a field which has been in cultivation but is being retired to permanent pasture. To be followed with later pictures."
Date:
April 2, 1938
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cows Grazing on A Contoured Furrowed Pasture/Stillwater Project
Photograph of eleven cows grazing on a contour furrowed pasture, planted to Bermudagrass, buffalo, grama, and straminium. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cows are here shown grazing on a contour furrowed field. The furrows have been planted to Bermuda grass and the predominating grasses of this of this virgin pasture are buffalo, grama, and straminium [sic]. Over pasturing in the early spring is considered detrimental."
Date:
April 27, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Elk City Project
Photograph of diversion terrace built entirely from the upper side. It provides protection for the terraced field below.
Date:
April 2, 1938
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Elk City Project
Photograph of spreading manure on the contour in a terraced field.
Date:
April 4, 1938
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Elk City Project
Photograph of terrace maintenance. Plowing up to the terrace.
Date:
April 2, 1938
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Erosion Control
Photograph of a large alkali spot and gullies in a field that has been abandoned for five years. The original cover was good blue stem grass with a heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5616.
Date:
April 22, 1937
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Erosion Control
Photograph of a large alkali spot and gullies in a field that has been abandoned for five years. The original cover was good blue stem grass with a heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5616.
Date:
April 22, 1937
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Erosion Control
Photograph of Little Bluestem grass reestablishing itself in badly gully eroded area which was formerly cultivated. Notice the soil holding properties of the grass.
Date:
April 11, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Homes
Photograph of a panaramic view of the Will Rogers Ranch. OK-6371.
Date:
April 18, 1938
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Homes
Photograph of the ranch house--the Dog Iron Ranch--of the Will Rogers' estate [the"White House on the Verdigris River"--in the 1960s moved near the Oolagah Resevoir]. The house was built in 1875 by Will Rogers' father and is the house in which Will was born and raised. The ranch is now being managed by a near relative of Will Rogers who has been a cattleman all his life.
Date:
April 18, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of the seeding of contour ridges in native pasture, using lespedaza and sweet clover. The ridges were built with two rounds with terracing plow, then worked with the orchard disc. Seed broadcast by hand. Covering with two mower wheels as drag or barrow. OK-5668.
Date:
April 27, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of one of the occasional occurences of CCC workers engaged in Soil Conservation Services [SCS] work. The men are unloading the truck of excess weight which caused it to bog down in a small gulley. Others are hitching on a chain to another truck which will help to pull it out. OK-6318.
Date:
April 12, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of the discing of old contour ridges which have been plowed in as preparation for a Bermuda grass seed bed. OK-6297.
Date:
April 6, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fields Brothers Farm Contour Furrowed Field/Chickasha Project
Photograph of the Fields Brothers Farm contour furrowed field holding windblown snow. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Newly constructed contour furrows in native pasture holding windblown snow in furrows. These furrows were constructed with long wing terracing plow.“
Date:
April 9, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fields Brothers Farm Contour Furrowed Field/Chickasha Project
Photograph of the Fields Brothers Farm contour furrowed field holding windblown snow. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Newly constructed contour furrows in native pasture holding windblown snow in furrows. These furrows were constructed with long wing terracing plow.“
Date:
April 9, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History