20 Year Service Award to Mr. McCraw

Photograph of Mr. Tidwell presenting a 20 year service award to Mr. McCraw.
Date: August 22, 1969
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lynn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

25 Year Service Award to Mr. Lobrecht

Photograph of Mr. Tidwell presenting Mr. Lobrecht with a 25 year Service Award.
Date: August 22, 1969
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lynn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

30 Year Service Award to Mr. Leonard

Photograph of Mr. Tidwell presenting Mr. Leonard with a 30 year service award.
Date: August 22, 1967
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lynn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

30 Year Service Award to Mr. Milton

Photograph of Mr. Tidwell presenting Willis Milton with a 30 year Service Award.
Date: August 22, 1969
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lynn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

30 Year Service Award to Mr. Stidham

Photograph of Mr. Tidwell presenting Mr. Stidham with a 30 year service award.
Date: August 22, 1967
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lynn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

1957 Soil Bank Grass Planting

Photograph of 1957 Soil Bank grass planting of native bluestem mixture on slick spot in a field of mixed prairie upland. A check will be makd to see if bluestem grasses will survive on this spot.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aerial Sprayed Mesquite

Photograph of Aerial spraying of Mesquite trees, 1960. Note resprouts of mesquite in tops of the mesquite trees.
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy

Photograph of L. L. Humphreys, president of Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention Assoc. , showing Lee J. Cerillo silage being put up by :Doc: Ely (in background). Mr. Cerillo is with the Ayer & Son Advertising Agency, Philadelphia, Pa. and was touring the watershed gathering informaiton for an article sponsored by the Caterpillar Co. Silage was cut from a field in Wildhorse bottom and had made an excellent growth.
Date: August 28, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Corn Growing in Bermuda Sod

Photograph of corn growing in bermuda sod to be cut for insilage.
Date: August 6, 1971
Creator: Donahoo, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Improved Bermuda Grass

Photograph of improved Bermuda grass hay on Galey loamy fine sand, 1 to 3% slopes.
Date: August 6, 1964
Creator: Stidham, Neal
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Maize

Photograph of Gerald Chambers, FFA Instructor and K.C. Bennett, SCS examine maize in Ottawa County.
Date: August 6, 1972
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Area IV WCU Training

Photograph of A.E. Borell and Herb Wells train Area IV WUC's to determine if farm ponds are in proper biological balance.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Ottinger, A. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Automatic Drawdown Pipe Instillation for a Wildlife Fish Pond

Photograph of the installation of an automatic drawdown pipe for a Wildlife Fish Pond five miles east and 2 ½ miles north of Binger. The back of the photograph proclaims, “The Installation of an automatic drawdown pipe that will release water 6 feet below water surface.”
Date: August 1968
Creator: Orr, Ervin T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Barnitz Creek Detention Success Story

Photograph of Barnitz Creek bottomland farm which was protected from damage in the May 1951 flood by Barnitz Creek detention reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2. Crops are corn, cotton and alfalfa. Farm worked by Winfred Shepard.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Benefits of Crop Rotation

Photograph of Estel Cosby, Cooperator and Lowell Caskey, Member of Board of Supervisors of Garvin Soil Conservation District, showing an excellent crop of peanuts produced with hairy vetch in crop rotation.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Lowe, Sam D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass

Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date: August 15, 1955
Creator: Huckabee, DeWitt
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass

Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date: August 15, 1955
Creator: Huckabee, DeWitt
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Bluestem and Other Miscellaneous Grasses

Photograph of an excellent stand of big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent stand of big bluestem grass. Note a native legume at the lower left. Some Indiangrass and little bluestem was also in this mixture."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Bluestem and Other Miscellaneous Grasses

Photograph of an excellent stand of big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent stand of big bluestem grass. Note a native legume at the lower left. Some Indiangrass and little bluestem was also in this mixture."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Bluestem in Full Bloom

Photograph of Big Bluestem in full bloom eight miles north of Randolph, Kansas on Highway #77 facing east. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Big bluestem (Andropogon furcatus) in full bloom in northeastern Kansas on limestone hill."
Date: August 12, 1938
Creator: Shuhart, D. V.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bindweed

Photograph of bindweed area at the edge of a wheat field. This area is uncontrolled and is in excellent condition. It is in a low spot where it received enough moisture to encourage growth. If not contolled it will spread rapidly into the ajoining wheat field and cause much damage to the wheat. It is resistant to poisons and can be controlled only by constant tillage. It will kill out other vegetation as it increases.
Date: August 2, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bindweed Control

Photograph of Ted Lehman, WJC, and Bill Storm, County Agent, examining an area treated for bindweed. Farmer applied Boroacu at the rate of 2300 pounds per acre in the Spring of 1953. A good kill was received except around the edges. Note size of area that has been out of production for three years. Bindweed is considered a serious problem in some areas of the High Plains. OK-138-4.
Date: August 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Biology-Channel Catfish

Photograph of Jerome Sykora pointng out the features of these Catfish hatching pens to Myron Hurd. These pens are on the Moore Fish Farm near Claremore. The Moores have shifted their operations from market type Channel Catfish to fingerlings.
Date: August 6, 1967
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Biology-Fish

Photograph of Herb Wells, Biology Specialist, SCS, and Charlie Melton, WUC of Sallisaw, making a check on fish balance in a farm pond on O.L. McCart in Okmulgee Co.
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Evans, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History