Digging Peanuts

Photograph of Marvin Majors using a peanut digger that turns the vines upside down.
Date: October 7, 1969
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Crop Residue Use (2)

Photograph of Luther Nunley in field showing Stubble mulching, after wheat grown on Class Ii-soil Unit 7 Land.
Date: July 7, 1961
Creator: Leonard, Claude
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Control of Shinnery

Photograph of shinnery sprayed with 1 lb 2-4-5-T in 1958 and 1959. Deferred in summer 1958, 1959 and 1960. Grazed in winter 1960-1961.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek Flood

Photograph of Wilhorse Creek channel after 4 inch rain storm on night of 7/8/62. Thirteen structures were discharging above this point. No flooding occurred during 1962 except where channel was blocked by debris 3 miles below this point.
Date: September 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of Washita Watershed - Wildhorse Creek channel at the first section line crossing below Lake Humpreys on site 22. Only site 22 was discharging into creek above this location. At this time site 22 had a 5 foot rise over the principal spillway. Principal spillway is a 36 inch pipe.
Date: July 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of bulldozer operator Gene Price, Stumper Construction Company, Luther, Oklahoma, discusses gully shaping plans and specifications with District Conservationist, Rob Maples, Konawa, Oklahoma . OK-3311-1.
Date: January 7, 1969
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Year Strawberry Beds

Photograph of a farmer cultivating a first year strawberry beds on Bodine stony lilt loam, 5 to 15% slopes.
Date: October 7, 1961
Creator: Warth, Peter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Growing on Kirkland Silt

Photograph of wheat growing on Kirkland silt loam, 0-1% slope.
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Cotton and Cow Peas

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Towns and Cities of Oklahoma

Photograph of the city of Stilwell, OK, from the Davis Mountains. OK-1606-1.
Date: October 7, 1961
Creator: Warth, Peter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock (and Grasses)

Photograph of livestock water. Commercial hereford cattle watering from a stock pond. Slope in the background is former cropland that has been reinvigorated with native bluestem and weeping love grass. OK-1559-9.
Date: February 7, 1962
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Field and Oil Wells

Photograph of a wheat field, with oil wells in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wheat field on Kirkland Renfro [sic] complex with oil wells and rangeland in background."
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Field on Kirkland Silt Loam

Photograph of "Wheat growing on Kirkland silt loam, 0-1 percent slope."
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFED Man Renovating Bermudagrass with Cultivator

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a tractor using a cultivator to renovate Bermudagrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Renovating Bermuda grass with field cultivator. Cultivator is going about 4 inches deep. Will be fertilized."
Date: April 7, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Renovating Bermuda Grass

Photograph of renovating Bermuda grass with field cultivator. Cultivator is going about 4 inches deep. Will be fertilized.
Date: April 7, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildlife Habitat Area

Photograph of a Wildlife Habitat area seeded in 1959 to lespedeza, weeping lovegrass, sand love, Indian and little bluestem, swtich.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cotton and Cow Peas

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Vetch Overseeded on Weeping Lovegrass

Photograph of Vetch overseeding on weeping lovegrass.
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Crop Residue Use

Photograph of Luther Nunley in field showing Stubble mulching, after wheat grown on Class Ii-soil Unit 7 Land.
Date: July 7, 1961
Creator: Leonard, Claude
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish

Photograph of a sein being used to catch channel cat to be placed in fish out pond on Rudolph McGehee farm.
Date: April 7, 1969
Creator: Collins, F. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish

Photograph of typical size (1 1/4 lb.) channel catfish being placed in the fish out pond on farm.
Date: April 7, 1969
Creator: Collins, F. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Quarter Horse Mare and Colt

Photograph of a Quarter Horse mare and colt eating Bermuda grass and Korean lespedeza hay.
Date: March 7, 1961
Creator: Parrish, Wilber E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

King Ranch Bluestem Competing with Other Grasses

Photograph of eleven year old King Ranch Blue Stem plant competing with Switch grass and Little Bluestem and Sand Bluestem in a planting on eroded Woodward soil. There is some volunteering of K. R. nearby. K. R. at left center, Switch grass at right center. Follow-up to OK-904-11.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Construction of Site No. 40, Upper Washita River Watershed

Photograph of construction of site no. 40, Upper Washita River Watershed. Sponsored by Upper Washita SCD, constructed by SCS.
Date: May 7, 1961
Creator: Sorrells, W. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History