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Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Here he checks it for proper adjustment as recording starts. Picture # 5 of a series. TX-46, 266-E.
Date:
November 1949
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The floats are being placed within the rings. Picture # 2 in a series. TX-46, 266-B.
Date:
November 1949
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Water-holding rings are in place. One picture of a series. TX-46, 266-A.
Date:
November 1949
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The device is completely set up. The recorder is on the left. The water supply drum is on the right. Rings, floats and water on the lower right. Picture # 4 in a series. TX-46, 266-D.
Date:
November 1949
Creator:
Hart, James
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of brush eradication. Sprayed (using a Basal Treatment—an oil soluble herbicide is mixed with an oil carrier instead of water and applied to the plants) in February, 1957. Large tree had circle hacked with an axe, small trees had only a spray band 1 foot wide at the base of the tree. A 2-4-5T herbicide gave a 100% kill. The Soil Conservation Service [SCS] recommends this use of the herbicide over mechanical removal as it reduces resprouting. OK-579-9.
Date:
November 5, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of range cover evaluation plot # 164, in excellent condition. Range on red shale hills site (soil unit 24-RR) had 4528 pounds of sideoats grama grass cover per acre, which was 97% effective in controlling soil splash. Detectability was 32% and the splash itself amounted to 1,248 pounds per acre. OK-10-634.
Date:
November 1, 1949
Creator:
Osborn, Ben
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of range cover evaluation plot # 173, in poor condition. Range on red shale hills site (soil unit 24-RR) had 1288 pounds of threeawn grass cover per acre, which was 48% effective in controlling soil splash. Detectability was 28% and the splash itself amounted to 17,869 pounds per acre. OK-10-632.
Date:
November 7, 1949
Creator:
Osborn, Ben
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Mr. Talmage Hardin using a sod-type drill (District-owned) seeding a small grain-vetch mixture on an old sod of Bermuda grass. OK-189-3.
Date:
November 14, 1955
Creator:
Robertson, Dan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of the H.E. Zimmerman Co-op and a drill being used in Bermuda grass pasture to seed oats and vetch for spring pasture. OK-195-2.
Date:
November 17, 1955
Creator:
Hindman, F. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of a fence line contrast, Dwight Ferguson farm. A fence-line contrast showing on the left the area utilized for summer grazing. On the right, the area deferred for winter grazing. The area on the right has been harvested for grass seed. OK-575-10.
Date:
November 1, 1957
Creator:
Elder, Arthur T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the A. B. Blackburn Coop, where oats and vetch are seeded in a Bermuda grass sod pasture with a sod drill. The Bermuda grass has not been grazed. OK-139-9.
Date:
November 15, 1955
Creator:
Windman, F. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Mr. Talmage Hardin using a sod-type drill (District-owned) seeding a small grain-vetch mixture on an old sod of Bermuda grass. OK-189-3.
Date:
November 14, 1955
Creator:
Robertson, Dan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a squirrel nest in a black locust tree which was planted on a spoils bank in 1947. Volunteer plants include silver bluestem grass, weeds, cottonwood and willow trees. OK-189-9.
Date:
November 15, 1955
Creator:
Hurd & Moreland
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of the portion of the area aerially sprayed by chemicals in June 1953 to kill brush on the C. J. Dohmer Ranch. The men in the picture are, left to right, Lowry Walker, aerial spray applicator, Louis Reid. Associate editor, Country Gentleman, C. J. Dohmer, owner, and Bus Cordray, foremen. OK-10-845.
Date:
November 1953
Creator:
Ray, H. C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Bermuda grass sprig sodded in March, 1955. Small grain hairy vetch mixture seeded with a sod-type drill, October, 1955. The cattle remained on the pasture. OK-189-2.
Date:
November 14, 1955
Creator:
Robertson, Dan
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 south end of a waterway under construction, 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-184-10 shows the waterway before construction. OK-184-12.
Date:
November 8, 1955
Creator:
Tarrant, Charles
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of John D. Faught, farm owner and Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor and J.L Coppedge, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician marvel at the way in which this King Ranch bluestem has grown and survived during 3 years of drought. The grass was planted in April, 1949, in 3-foot rows at the rate of 2 pounds per acre. Some barnyard fertilizer was used on the grass. TX-48-301.
Date:
November 1952
Creator:
Brock, C. G.
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 Maximillian sunflowers. TX-43, 233.
Date:
November 1946
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
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
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
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 terraced waterway seeded and sodded to Bermuda grass in April 1947. The field on the right empties terraces here and field on the left will do as when it is terraced in the near future. Water finally empties into Spring Creek. Dense stand of grass now carries water safely. Note remains of old gullies gouged out by run off before waterway and terraces were built. Soil Conservation Services technician Hillard Hoffman inspects the grass. TX-44, 813.
Date:
November 4, 1948
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History