Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a view of a correctly built large, loose rock, bootheel structure at the head of a gully. Note the way in which the structure curves up at the end. OK-5071.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of contour furrows in pasture land in order to control and preserve water as precipitation falls. Results have proven that this is one way to develop a good pasture. OK-5011.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Photograph of wind carrying silt on a clean, cultivated field. Notice how the wind picks up the soil and carries it higher the farther it goes. Also notice that the soil is not picked up until the wind has a chance to gather momentum close to the ground. The soil in the foreground is not being carried as the end of the field is near, and the fence and vagetation act as a windbreak. This wind erosion is aserious problem in western Oklahoma, Kansas and Southwestern Nebraska. OK-5123.
Date: March 6, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Photograph of a view of drifted fence with blow and which comes from the cultivated field in the background. OK-5025.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Civilian Conservation Corps

Photograph of the southwestern part of Guthrie, Oklahoma, a view of the Guthrie Soil Conservation Camp from the adjoining water tower showing the typical layout of the Oklahoma Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] camps. OK-5115.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of a view of a newly completed line of terrace outlet structures in Geary, Oklahoma. Semi-masonry and reinforced single and double buttresses. OK-5068.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a graphic picture of an abandoned field very badly gullied due to incorrct farming procedures. This field, only part of which is shown here, could not even be reached by a pickup truck. Plowing the field up and down the hill was the primary reason for this "picture story". OK-5046.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sheet And Gully Erosion Caused By Uncontrolled Run-Off

Photograph of sheet and gully erosion caused by uncontrolled run-off on an unprotected cultivated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sheet and gully erosion caused by uncontrolled run-off on unprotected cultivated field. Rows have been run across the slope in an attempt to prevent this drainage but runoff "jumped" the furrows causing cross-cutting. Contour cultivation and perhaps terraces will be required to control erosion here."
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Yukon Camp Grounds

Photograph of a close-up view of a painting of the Yukon camp done by Harry Leibmann, a camp enrollee. OK-5073.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an abandoned field very badly gullied due to incorrect farming procedures. This field, only part of which is shown here, could not even be reached by a pickup truck. Plowing the field up and down the hill was the primary reason for this "picture story". OK-5046.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a badly eroded farmyard about 20 miles west of Guthrie Soil Conservation Camp. OK-5112.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of two four-horse teams pulling Fresno Scrapers and building a terrace at the Konawa Terracing Demonstration. OK-5023. Also see Okla-5022.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drilling and Blasting Methods

Photograph of close-up view of camp boys drilling dynamite holes with air hammer for blasting rock loose in rock quarry. OK-5017.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Badly Eroded Farmyard

Photograph of a badly eroded farmyard about 20 miles west of the Guthrie Soil Conservation Camp.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Listing Between Terraces for Row Crop Planting

Photograph of a "View of contour listing between terraces for row crop planting."
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Topside View of a Large Masonry Arched Overfall Structure at the End of a String of Terrace Outlets/Ardmore District/Chickasha Project

Photograph of "Topside view of a large masonry arched overfall structure at the end of a string of terrace outlets."
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Guthrie Soil Conservation Camp

Photograph of the Guthrie Soil Conservation Camp from an adjoining water tower showing the typical layout of the Oklahoma CCC camps.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Furrows and Sloped Gullies in Abandoned Land/Stillwater District/Chandler Camp

Photograph of a "View of contour furrows and sloped gullies in abandoned land."
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History