Aerial Shot of Large Area Which Adopted Soil Conservation Practices/Muskogee Project

Photograph of an aerial shot of a large area of land which Soil Conservation practices have been adopted. The back of the photograph proclaims, "3000 feet altitude in airplane. View of large areas of treated land upon which Soil Conservation practices have been adopted."
Date: May 8, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aerial Shot of Large Area Which Adopted Soil Conservation Practices/Muskogee Project

Photograph of an aerial shot of treated land in which Soil Conservation practices have been adopted. Note the numerous houses and barns in the lower portion of the photograph and the various shelterbelts throughout this photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "3000 feet altitude in airplane. Views of large areas of treated land upon which Soil Conservation practices have been adopted."
Date: May 8, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Angus Bulls Grazing on Good Pasture

Photograph of Angus bulls grazing in a pasture of yellow hop clover and Bermudagrass. A former, almost healed, gully is visible in the center of the field is almost healed. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Angus bulls make a pleasing picture standing in good pasture where yellow hop clover and Bermuda grass provide quality grazing. The gully, now almost healed, once was exceptionally deep and rugged. The barn in the background holds hay cut from an adjacent area for winter feed."
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Checking Tall Corn

Photograph of Nolan Denton, WUC, Muskogee, Oklahoma, checking "tall corn" - Class I land, Soil Unit 4 BO. This corn following 2 years of fescue, soil is in excellent physical condition.
Date: July 1, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Civilian Conservation Corps

Photograph of CCC Enrollees helping to construct a wooden concrete form for making a watering trough. Okla-8062.
Date: March 14, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conferring With Tennant on Contour Planting

Photograph of Mr. Rowsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Sedwick, tenant, on contour planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in background.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Cotton Farming

Photograph of picking cotton on the contour in an unterraced filed which is yielding 1200 pounds of lint cotton to an acre. Mr. Cullen says, "I'm making more cotton this year than I have in years on this land, I believe it's because of those crooked rows."
Date: unknown
Creator: Slack, J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of SCS personnel explaining contour farming and crop rotation to African-American farmers. OK-5502.
Date: July 13, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of a channel-type terrace built with farm equipment. OK-195-8.
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: Evans, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of Earl Smith, SCS Agent, discussing the advantages of contour farming and strip cropping. OK-5299.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of a new channel type terrace constructed with two Fresno scrapers and two teams (2 drivers and 2 dumpers). The terrace is 200 feet long constructed in 18 hours by the owner. Excess run off is carried into a natural drain. OK-8226.
Date: September 23, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Pasture Ridges Planted to Bermudagrass/Muskogee Project

Photograph of contour pasture ridges planted to Bermudagrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour pasture ridges planted to Bermuda grass. Two rounds were plowed to the ridges the first year. This year the entire interval was planted. To be followed with later pictures showing how the Bermuda grass has made a solid cover over the entire area."
Date: November 30, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cotton, Oats and Corn Planted on the Contour in Strips in a Gently Sloping Field Without the Use of Level Terraces/Muskogee District/Muskogee Project

Photograph of the J. M. Anthis farm, which shows, "Cotton, oats and corn planted on the contour in strips in a gently sloping field without the use of level terraces."
Date: May 27, 1936
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cultivating Young Cotton on the Contour

Photograph of cultivating young cotton on the contour in a terraced field.
Date: July 3, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Diversion Terrace

Photograph of a diversion terrace on Clapp Morgan Mort. Company land.
Date: September 23, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drainage Problem

Photograph of 8 acres have been too wet to produce anythink in six years Campbell has owned land. Field was planted to soybeans 10 days before picture was taken. Can't drain field until group drainage project is worked out. Success of drainage on adjoining farm owned by L.W. Clark and operated by Campbell has led to circulation of petition for group drainage.
Date: August 11, 1951
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drainage Success Story

Photograph of 20 acre field which was too wet to be productive beore Campbell and two neighbors, with county help, put in a roadside ditch and Campbell put in field ditch in winter of 1947 This alfalfa crop yielded more than 800 bales to bring in $750 first 1951 cutting. In 1948 field produced $2350 alfalfa income. Drainage cost about $200. Results from drainage here and on adjoining farm owned by L.W. Clark and operated by Campbell have led to drawing of petition for group project that would drain about 2,500 acres, involve about 40 farms.
Date: July 11, 1951
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ezee Flow Spreader

Photograph of an Ezee Flow Spreader on the Jerry Thompson Farm.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Evans, Charles A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of the modern farm home of L.A. Rounds. OK-9485.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of George Mueller family and house. One of the better tenant houses and farmyards in eastern Oklahoma. OK-5307.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Work

Photograph of workers fertilizing a field with manure before planting watermelon.
Date: March 14, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History