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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Soil Conservation District technician Wesley Meinders, examining grass drills prior to seeding native grass for 1949. OK-9914.
Date:
March 2, 1949
Creator:
Lowe, Sam D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a farmer plowing on the contour with a 3-horse team and a sulky plow. This land is being turned under with 8 inches of grass which will act as a soil builder and fertilizer for Spring oat planting. OK-5877.
Date:
November 2, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
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
Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management
Photograph of gullies on cut slopes that was left unprotected near the Port of Catoosa. OK-4946-1.
Date:
February 2, 1973
Creator:
Lewis, S. L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Conservation, Management and Utilization
Photograph of road fill on section line road. This is a cooperative project with the Soil Conservation Service [SCS], county commissioners, landowners and the Agricultural Conservation Program [ACP]. OK-1066-3.
Date:
December 2, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education
Photograph of Lincoln Elementary third grade students on a bus on a conservation tour. OK-4285-5.
Date:
May 2, 1971
Creator:
Donahoo, Don D.
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
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of an outlet channel constructed with a plow in the fall of 1948 (1000 feet long x 20 feet wide) seeded to 50 pounds of intermediate wheat grass. Fertilized with 200 pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer at the time of seding. OK-9898-B.
Date:
July 2, 1950
Creator:
Orr, Erwin T
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Dr. C. Q. Lynd, Agronomy Department, Oklahoma A & M College [i.e.,Oklahoma State University], Stillwater, Oklahoma and M.D. Gamble, Agronomist, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], examining stand of native grasses in excellent condition. OK-139-12.
Date:
September 2, 1955
Creator:
Lowe, George
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 crop rotation. Mung beans planted in rows 40 inches on May 11, 1955. Variety jumbo. Expected yield is 600 pounds. Wheat to follow the Mung beans. Last year, the wheat averaged 37 bushels per acre. OK-143-11.
Date:
September 2, 1955
Creator:
Murrell, Ray C.
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
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of the south end of a waterway, just staked,, looking north. Designed on non-erosive grade for drainage of 1600 acres for 3700 feet spilling into the South Canadian River. It protects several acres of bottom alfalfa land. Photo OK-184-12 shows the waterway after construction started. OK-184-10.
Date:
November 2, 1955
Creator:
Bates, Leland A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of the W.K.Y. watershed. Aerial view of a gullied, natural draw to be controlled by diversion of runoff, sloping and sodding. Field in the lower left will be terraced with outlets onto native grass pasture. The pond is to be constructed near the lower end of the gullied draw. See OK-9112, -9113 and -9119). OK-9114.
Date:
February 2, 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of bindweed control. A close-up of bindweed area in a wheat field sprayed with 2,4,5-T herbicide in the spring of 1956 only partially killed. This weed spreads very rapidly and can cover large areas in a short amount of time if not controlled. It is resistant to poisons and needs constant tillage. It will kill out other vegetation as it increases. OK-353-12.
Date:
August 2, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch Tillage (2)
Photograph of stubble mulch tillage on the contour with impounding type terraces. The wheat stubble was left on the ground to control wind erosion, increase water intake of the soil and to add organic matter to the surface soil.
Date:
August 2, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Floodwater Damage Stillwater Creek
Photograph of floodwater damage in the vicinity of Stillwater. Aerial photograph.
Date:
May 2, 1957
Creator:
Brune, Gunner M.; Curry, Jerald; Mullins, Tilman & and Holden, Harold
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sediment Damage
Photograph of sediment damage just after May flood on Beaver and Cow Creek Watersheds. This is on the highway between Duncan and Lawton, Okla.
Date:
July 2, 1955
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass Rotation
Photograph of 20 acres Cornado sideoats planted Feb, 1948 in cultivated rows. It was fertilized and cultivated 1300 lbs. of certified seed was harvested Oct. 1958 or 65 lbs. per acre. This seed was used to seed 68 more acres of cropland and overseeded some poor stands of native grass pasture.
Date:
July 2, 1959
Creator:
Chance, R. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tamping Soil
Photograph of Kent Kirkpatrick tamping soil around cutoff collar on principal spillway pipe of erosion control dam.
Date:
December 2, 1959
Creator:
Hamill, Dan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Proposed Erosion Control Dam
Photograph of owner and Vernon Chittended, Operator, looking downstream on proposed erosion control dam with 8" pipe for principal spillway. Pyropse to control active gully
Date:
November 2, 1960
Creator:
Hamill, Dan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch Tillage
Photograph of a close-up of stubble mulch tillage on the contour with impounding type terraces. The wheat stubble was left on the ground to control wind erosion, increase water intake of the soil and to add organic matter to the surface of the soil.
Date:
August 2, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
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
Range Hedged Elm Near Deer Enclosure
Photograph of Arthur F. Halloran examining a closely hedged elm tree near deer enclosure No. 3 on Grace Mt. flat in Mt. Pinchot pasture. Twig growth is nil compared with long growth of twigs inside the enclosure.
Date:
April 2, 1968
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History