Mr. Frank Spreading Manure on Contoured Field of Alfalfa/Stillwater Project/Guthrie Camp

Photograph of Mr. Frank, cooperator, with a horse drawn cart, spreading manure on a contour field of alfalfa. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mr. Frank, Cooperator, spreading manure on a contour field of alfalfa. Taken to illustrate an article by Mr. Ivy M. Howard."
Date: December 3, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of pine reproduction and growth following girdling of cull hardwoods in May, 1947. AR-61-595.
Date: December 3, 1951
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFIED Man Plowing Austrian Winter Peas As a Green Manure Crop

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man with horse drawn equipment plowing under Austrian Winter peas as a green manure crop. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Plowing under Austrian Winter Peas as a green manure crop on the Experiment Station farm at Stillwater, Oklahoma."
Date: December 3, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.
Date: December 3, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.
Date: December 3, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History