Food Availability through Conservation Farming

Photograph of Mrs. Phyllis Johnson who is one of many house-wifes that enjoys shopping in the modern day super-markets. Good conservation farming and modern canning methods make many items of food available to the house-wife of today.
Date: February 6, 1966
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Misc. Title Screen Layout

Photograph of a title layout that was made by using Hernard 3-D title letters on a lithographic America The Beautiful print. Note. Shadow effect by using the raised letters. Color slides wre made by using the raised letters. Color slides were made of the same picture with amazing results.
Date: September 6, 1966
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Food Availability through Conservation Farming

Photograph of Mrs. Phyllis Johnson who is one of many house-wives that enjoys shopping in the modern day super-markets. Good conservation farming make many items of food available to the house-wife of today.
Date: February 6, 1966
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation Cartoons

Photograph of a cartoon by Virgil White concerning fishing, here overfishing.
Date: unknown
Creator: White, Virgil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation Cartoons

Photograph of a cartoon by Virgil White concerning fishing, here moderate fishing
Date: unknown
Creator: White, Virgil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation Cartoons

Photograph of a cartoon by Virgil White concerning fishing, here the large catch is ready to devour the fisherman.
Date: unknown
Creator: White, Virgil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation Cartoons

Photograph of a cartoon by Virgil White concerning fishing, here overfishing.
Date: unknown
Creator: White, Virgil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation Cartoons

Photograph of a cartoon by Virgil White concerning fishing, here a man with a very large catch, a single fish
Date: unknown
Creator: White, Virgil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of King Ranch Bluestem seed, clean and of commercial quality. High grade plantable material. Size of seed in original negative about one-half actual size. TX-44, 870.
Date: November 1, 1948
Creator: Davis, David O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of composite samples of Texas Wintergrass taken in December, 1946. The large sample was taken where litter was in good condition and considerable stubble from previous years growth remained. The range where the small sample came from had been burned the previous September. Ground temperatures were from 5 to 6 degrees warmer. TX-45-943.
Date: December 1946
Creator: Fox-Davis.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Photo of the Lege Ranch showing registered Herefords on volunteer stand of Huban clover and Johnson grass pasture. [Too much of the rest of the rest of the text too faded for legibility}. TX-41, 636.
Date: May 30, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Hubam clover and Johnson grass for supplemental pasture. TX-41, 542.
Date: May 20, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of clipped bluestem plot, the same as in TX-43, 229-A. Average forage yield of this and 9 other plots was 5,567 pounds per acre. Yield of mulch was 1580 pounds per acre. TX-43, 229-B.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of two piles of grass. The large pile is the yield of forage. The small pile is one year’s accumulation of mulch as the area was burned about two years ago. The total forage produced per acre when the amount of this plot was averaged with 10 others was 2500 pounds per acre. The yield of mulch was 750 pounds per acre. TX-43, 228-B.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of ungrazed Buffalo grass on an abandoned golf course. The area had been burned a year previously. See TX-43, 228-B, the photo of all-clipped Buffalo grass. TX-43-228-A.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a typical spot for the grazing of little bluestem grass where some is closely grazed, some hedged and some trimmed at the sides. TX-43, 250.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of bees from this row of 23 hives are pollinating 35 acres of hairy vetch from which seed crop will be harvested. Bee pollination increases seed production. TX-45. 667.
Date: July 2, 1949
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Dull from Woodward, Oklahoma. Here he explains it to D.G. Kolkar, soil conservation student, from Mumbai (orig. Bombay], India. TX-46. 266 F.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of Infiltrometer built by Soil Conservationist Service [SCS] scientist, A.D. Bull. SCS technicians examine the recording instrument. No. 3 of a series.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Maximillian sunflowers. TX-43, 233.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Antelope Horn milkweed on a rocky area. TX-45, 378.
Date: May 1, 1949
Creator: Allred, B. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a heath aster plant. Aster ericoides [an outdated classification]. TX-43, 254.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the flowers, leaves, stems and top root of an eryngo plant TX-44, 747.
Date: October 4, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a Maximilian sunflower
Date: October 4, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History