Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Photograph of a stubble mulch grain drill (John Deere) drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rotation Hay and Pasture

Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart 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

Hay and Pasture Rotation (2)

Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of a Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine with blade raised out of ground. It is the preferred type of tillage mulch machine being used on Wheatland Experiment Station by Supt. Harold Meyers.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation (2)

Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gullying, Sheet Erosion, and Siltation

Photograph of "Gullying, sheet erosion, and siltation resulting from 10 inch rain on Grant silt loam, 3-5% slopes. Land was clean tilled." A house is located in the background on top of the hill.
Date: July 24, 1963
Creator: Grover, Edward S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Brillion Seeder used to plant weeping Lovegrass used on Wind Strip & Rotation Hay and Pasture

Photograph of a Brillion Seeder used to plant weeping lovegrass strip on 7x AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam after soil was prepared with a rod weeder and chisel type machine. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wind Strip & Rotation Hay and Pasture. Pasture strip on 7x AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a rod weeder and chisel type machine."
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Strip & Rotation, Hay and Pasture

Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of Mr. Harold Myers, Wheatland Experiment Station superintendent, holding up wheat stubble and root system which has been released by the Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Strip & Rotation, Hay and Pasture (2)

Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Photograph of a John Deere stubble mulch grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8 inch blade. This is front view of grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of Noble blade stubble mulch tillage machine being used on Wheatland Exp. Station. This is the first operation by the 8 ft. blade cutting approximately 5 inches under the surface. It raised the slice of dirt slightly, but leaves the stubble and other residue in place.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Austrian winter peas and barley in the cropping system. OK-498-6.
Date: July 6, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a plastic protector for a waterway. State soil Conservationist Earl Rowley and Dan Hamill. Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Weatherford, Oklahoma, demonstrates a plastic cover that can be spread over a Bermuda grass waterway where the slope increase would be a hazard. Water can flow over the plastic preventing erosion. The Bermuda grass receives sunlight through the plastic. Soil moisture loss under the covered area is reduced to a minimum. OK-692-7.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of 7X-AB Pratt Fine Sandy Loam soil. Reinhart using a rod weeder fastened to a chisel type instrument. Chisels loosens soil and rod rotates in reverse which lifts all vegetation up from 4 inch depth. On tighter or more loamy soils this machine is used after one-waying for the second operation.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
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