Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a field listed under an emergency tillage program after recent spring rains. This one has a 3% slope and is only one of many in the field that cannot be crossed with farm machinery. OK-467-12.
Date: May 16, 1957
Creator: Weidner, Curtis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Austrian winter peas. 150 acres seeded in November 1956 for soil improvement. Good nitrogen fixation when photo was taken. An excellent growth, field has been in wheat for several years and with a wheat crop to planted in 1957. Seeding rate is about 20 pounds per acre. Seed inoculated. No fertilizer applied. Ray Murell, Work Unit Conservationists [WUC] in the picture. OK-456-1.
Date: April 16, 1957
Creator: Cooper, Boyd
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History