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Sod Drilled Oats
Photograph of a closeup of sod drilled oats, drilled Sept. 15, 1959.
Date:
November 6, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sod Drilled Oats
Photograph of sod drilled oats. Johnsongrass and lespedesa meadow. Drilled Sept. 15, 1959. This type of operation eliminates seedbed preparation which is a different operation in Blackland.
Date:
November 6, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fescue Lodino Clover Pasture
Photograph of a Fescue-Ladino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil-5% slope, has produces and still producing excellent pasture. Lime-fertilized-managed.
Date:
November 4, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cotton Hulls for Cover
Photograph of Cotton hulls placed on field as cover crop. The hulls will also add organic matter to thte soil.
Date:
November 25, 1959
Creator:
Nelson, P. I.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Seed Harvest Grandstand Storage
Photograph of a district employee turning grass seed as part of the curing process. This area is located beneath the grandstand at the City Park and one of the many such areas leased by the District for this purpose.
Date:
November 1, 1957
Creator:
Elder, A. T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Seed Harvest
Photograph of a district employee cleaning switchgrass seed in District warehouse. Also shown is part of the many thousands of pounds of switchgrass already cleaned and stacked ready for distribution.
Date:
November 1, 1950
Creator:
Elder, A. T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Combining Native Bluestem Grass
Photograph of Houston Hicks, combining native grass from the Alva Tims farm. Rotation grazing and conservation ranching had permitted this grass to make an excellent seed crop in 1955. 58 pounds of good seed per acre, principally little bluestem and Indiangrass were harvested.
Date:
November 10, 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New Irrigation Well
Photograph of a new irrigation well with proper gravel pack to replace well that was improperly packed and failed.
Date:
November 29, 1957
Creator:
Woodward, Grant
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Border Irrigation
Photograph of a portion of a 200-acre field level bordered in the Washita River bottom. This is the first water after leveling and corrugating. Winter oats were seeded and with Nitrogen fertilizer applied, yeilded 80 bushels per acre in 1953. Seeded to alfalfa in 1953 and with 400 lbs of 0-20-0 per acre produced 7 tons per acre. Water supply comes from the Washita River from a unit supplying 4,000 gallons per minute.
Date:
November 1952
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Perforated Well Casing
Photograph of a perforated well casing. A 3 foot section of perforated casing with 1/8" opening. It is reported that this sectio of casing will let through 100 gallons per minute.
Date:
November 1, 1958
Creator:
Rowlett, O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Graded Border Irrigation System
Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date:
November 17, 1955
Creator:
Hurd and Moreland
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Seed Harvest
Photograph of Little Bluestem grass seed set cut in sun to dry before cleaning. Seed is being processed by Upper Washita SCD to be used in reseeding land in Roger Mills County.
Date:
November 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Native Grass Seed
Photograph of the upper Washita SCD 1958 grass seed harvest. Bluestem seed laid out on bleachers to dry before cleaning.
Date:
November 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass Seed Harvest
Photograph of Ed Rowley, SCS business manager, and assistant sacking and weighing grass seed in the District warehouse.
Date:
November 1, 1957
Creator:
Elder, Arthur T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass Seed Harvest
Photograph of Ed Rowley, SCS business manager, and helpers cleaning switchgrass seed seed in the District warehouse.
Date:
November 1, 1957
Creator:
Elder, Arthur T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Edgerock Range Site
Photograph of Edgerock Range site, in excellent condition.
Date:
November 14, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Edgerock Range Site
Photograph of Edgerock Range Site in excellent condition.
Date:
November 14, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Plowing Second Growth Oak
Photograph of second oak growth being plowed with a 48" disc. Cutting to a depth of 14 to 18 inches. 60 acre block. Area to go to bermuda grass. Newt Chamberlain, contractor, in photo.
Date:
November 2, 1959
Creator:
Collins, F. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wet Spots in a Spinach Field
Photograph of wet spots in a spinach field. Soil unit 9H. Drowning out due to plow pan and surface crusting. Approx. 5 acres lost in a 40 acre field. Crop residue and land leveling would correct this.
Date:
November 4, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stocking Fish Ponds
Photograph of Augie Sewell, Washita County SCD supervisor and Darwin Craig, Cordell Sportsman Club receive fish from the Oklahoma Fish Hatchery delivery truck to be taken to floodwater retarding structures on Cavalary Creek watershed.
Date:
November 1, 1958
Creator:
Rowlett, Olen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Back Slope Planted to Bermuda
Photograph of the back slope of a dam planted to bermuda grass August 5, 1959. Irrigated immediately after planting. Fred Fortney Soil Conservationist.
Date:
November 18, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Caucasian Bluestem
Photograph of Caucasian Bluestem grass planted in spring of 1959. Good stand was secured where tractor tires firmed the soil. Few plants were established on loose soil. Fred Fortney, Soil Conservationist. Zanies loam soil.
Date:
November 19, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Combining Native Bluestem Grass
Photograph of Howard Nix combining native bluestem mixture on the farm of Alva Tims. Proper range management and rotation grazing permitted the harvest of 1500 pounds of bluestem mixture from approximately 35 acres.
Date:
November 4, 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Examination of Bluestem Harvest
Photograph of Claud Leonard (left), Work Unit Conservationist, Rush Springs, Okla. And Howard Nix combine operator, examine some of the native bluestem mixture harvested from this area. 1500 pounds of seed were harvested from approximately 35 acres.
Date:
November 4, 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History