Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of pasture improvement. The area to the right, one year ago was exactly like that on the left. The shrub brush was removed, sprouts mowed three times during the summer and grazing prohibited. Note differences of grass growth. OK-5994.
Date: November 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pasture Improvement

Photograph of pasture improvement showing the area on the right, one year ago which was exactly like that on the left. The scrub brush was removed, aprouts sowed three times during the summer and grazing prohibited. NOTE: difference of grass growth.
Date: November 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK.General view of east slope, looking north. OK-R-29.
Date: October 18, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Native cover conditions undisturbed. Note climax [?] grasses. OK-R-30.
Date: October 18, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Showing blue gama grass. Fully mature. OK-R-28.
Date: October 15, 1937
Creator: Slosser, J. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Bermuda sod strips in lower end of outlet channel after a 4.6 to 5 inch depth of flow. OK-6090.
Date: July 9, 1937
Creator: Reif, Frank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a view showing catchment in contour furrows constructed with a 16 inch sulky plow (2 rounds in a furrow), June 1937. The snow is 6 inches deep in the furrows. OK-R-53.
Date: June 1937
Creator: Slosser, J. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of hairy vetch growing on submarginal land only a few inches thick above bedrock. The vetch was used as a winter cover crop and will be plowed under as green manure. Gullies can be seen in the field above in which [unclear] is exposed. OK-5710.
Date: May 21, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a contour pasture ridge with water standing both above and below. This was taken in the rain. An inch of rain fall in half an hour just preceding the taking of the picture. Notice that all the water is being held on the pasture. OK-5493.
Date: April 20, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History