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Bird Nest Creek Flood
Photograph of a farmland field inundated with water from the nearby Bird Nest Creek after a flood. A house or a barn is covered by floodwater in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Flood. Farmland inundated by water adjacent to Bird Nest Creek, due to lack of channel capacity.”
Date:
October 2, 1959
Creator:
Baggett, Beryl
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bird Nest Creek Flood
Photograph of a farmland field inundated with water from the nearby Bird Nest Creek after a flood. A house or a barn is covered by floodwater in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Flood. Farmland inundated by water adjacent to Bird Nest Creek, due to lack of channel capacity."
Date:
October 2, 1959
Creator:
Baggett, Beryl
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Exhibitions and Presentations
Photograph of the Mayes County Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] exhibit displayed at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3226-2.
Date:
October 2, 1968
Creator:
Croom, Dan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Orchard
Photograph of an overgrown orchard
Date:
October 2, 1958
Creator:
Culbertson, C. N.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Mr. Oscar Coleman on a tractor, combining Dallis grass seed from a 15 acre pasture. Mr. Coleman, member of the Board of Supervisors and Business of the Little River Soil Conservation district, says he expects a yield of 200 to 250 pounds of seed per acre. OK-9236.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Idabel Limestone Pit and Crusher
Photograph of five UNIDENTIFED workers using a rock crusher to grind limestone for fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service cooperators. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Lime pit and crusher leased and operated by supervisors of the Little River Soil Conservation District, Idabel, Oklahoma. The lime is crushed and sold near cost to the cooperating farmers of the district."
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Land Improvement
Photograph of: Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area & would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared this 12 acres, seeded it to Dallis grass, yelow hop, black medic & white Dutch clover & improvement increased carrying capacity to 2 cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cows.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9204.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9202.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of an old cultivated field that had lain idle, overgrown with brush and sprouts. It has been flat broken [i.e., When land is broken by continuous lapping of furrows], disked and fertilized, then in the spring of 1945 it was seeded to carpet and Dallis grasses, yellow hop, burr black medic, white Dutch clover and Kobe and Korean lespedeza. OK-9206.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Pasture Development. Region of worthless, wooded area (as in background) that was cleared last spring and seeded to Dallis grass, yellow hop and black medic clover. When Wayman and Julius Canant started their pasture program their original 400 acre farm had sufficient pasture for only about 25 head of livestock. Now it carries 100 heads. OK-9207.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hereford and Nurse Cows
Photograph of hereford and nurse cows grazing on 60 acres of old 160 acre field seeded spring of 1945 to Kobe and Korean lespedeza and overseeded to big hop and black medic clover. Mr. Cavender bought this 560 acre farm from his father in 1944. With assistance of the Little River Soil Conservation Districkt the farm wa planned as a livestock unit. Sixty acres of native grass went to meadow, 100 acres to sericea lespedesa. In 1946, 40 additional acres were planted to sericea. Old pastures were improved, overseeded to clover mixtures and area now kept mowed. A 60 acre old field, fertilized, limed and planted with Korean laspadeza in 1945 was overseeded to hop & black medic clover shis summer, 600# carpet grass this spring. Weeds were kept mowed & this year Cavender grazed 22 registered polled Herefords, 2 horses & 6 grade cows on the old "field".
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a part of 12 acres of brushy pasture that has been cleared with a power saw since January 1946. Additional trees will be cut and sprouts will be controlled by mowing. The land has been seeded to carpet grass and will be overseeded to clovers and lespedeza next spring [1947]. The worthless, wooded area in the right background also will be cleared. Camera Station: in the 120 acre pasture. Facing the southeast from the side of the road at point 468 feet south of the farmstead gate. OK-9208.
Date:
October 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hydraulic Coring Machine
Photograph of a bull hydraulic power takeoff coring machine and tool box.
Date:
October 2, 1957
Creator:
Nance, Earl
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a well-filled tree of Golden Delicious apples. Soil is Baxter silt loam. OK-1455-5.
Date:
October 2, 1961
Creator:
Warth, Peter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dalhart Sandy Loam/Soil Profile
Photograph of a field of tilled stubble mulch on Dalhart sandy loam. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Dalhart sandy loam. Stubble mulch tilled prior to seeding close-up."
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welch, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of stubble left after drilling wheat on Richfield silt loam. Stubble mulch tilled and standard disc-type wheat drill. OK-158-7.
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welch, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of drilling wheat on Richfield silt loam. OK-158-8.
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welch, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch on Dalhart Sandy Loam
Photograph of Dalhart sandy loam. Stubble mulch tilled prior to seeding close-up.
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welch, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch on Dalhart Sandy Loam
Photograph of stubble on Dalhart sandy loam. Stubble mulch tilled prior ot seeding close-up.
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welch, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Drilling Wheat on Richfield Silt Loam
Photograph of three UNIDENTIFIED workers drilling wheat. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling wheat – Richfield silt loam."
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welsh, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Drilling Wheat on Richfield Silt Loam
Photograph of three UNIDENTIFIED workers drilling wheat. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling wheat – Richfield silt loam."
Date:
October 2, 1955
Creator:
Welsh, A. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Native Grass Harvest
Photograph of making hay from native grass after seed had been harvested with a combine. Grasses are bluestem, switch, Indian. Mr. Ferguson says this is good quality hay.
Date:
October 2, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History