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Runoff Water Damage
Photograph of runoff water from unprotected cropland fields deposited silt and topsoil over part of the road. Excess water washed part of black top road material down the natural drain.
Date:
August 25, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Holding Snow
Photograph of stubble holds snow on the field
Date:
January 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wooden Bridge
Photograph of 55 foot span of wooden bridge the County Commissioner had been attempting to maintain and replace for school bus route, mail route, and Grade-A milk route. Bridge ws dangerous for heavy loads and expensive to maintain. A combination road fill and stock water pond was planned at this site; see OK-136-9 for road approach and see later picture for completed structure.
Date:
August 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of tree management. Still holding to the same tree he had to kneel to reach in the “A” shot, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician A. E. Howard now stands so he will show in the “D” picture. The hardwood in the center fell since the “C” photo was taken. OK-10-457-D.
Date:
May 1953
Creator:
Davis, D. O.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of George McKinley [this name written on the back of the photo] among noted grass and tree growth. Back of photo says "Kuron 1953 - 1954." and "Area received two applications," but unspecified.
Date:
1953/1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Sorghum Sudan grass planted without seedbed preparation with Pasture Dream planter / drill. 27 P5.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Clinton Harbers’ Bermuda grass. Clinton Harbers is talking about his coastal Bermuda grass that lies on a rather sandy part of his farm. From left to right: Fred Case; Samuel Hertha; Dick Marshall; Clinton Harbers; D. G. Craig; Mabry Milhollin and Bob Aicher. TX-308-12.
Date:
March 9, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management
Photograph of a plow pan, showing a close up view showing the plow pan left by the sweep when cover crop was cut loose. TX-309-12.
Date:
March 9, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Wade George examines hegira strip crop. He grows four rows of hegira to eight of peanuts. A rye cover crop and peanut hay left on the ground provide additional erosion protection. In 1949 and 1950 George had a 50-bushel-an-acre peanut yield. George has planted cover crops on his goober [synonym for "peanut'] acreage every year for 20 years. During that span of time, he has put in strip crops each year but one. III-12CT. TX-47-545.
Date:
April 17, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician W. A. Morgan examining shaped and Bermuda-sodded collective outlet. Sodding was done in the spring of 1950. III - 7CT. TX-47, 546.
Date:
April 17, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of strip cropping at Wade Farm. Single row of sudangrass used fro strip cropping this peanut land. The area between the single row of sudangrass has been planted to cover a crop of rye. A single row of sudan grass such as this does not do a good job of controlling wind erosion as does two rows. M.D. Gamble from Oklahoma is in the picture. TX-307-12.
Date:
March 7, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of R.D. Walker, right, and John O. Simpson, SCS technician, left, in a strip crop of sudangras and guar [ a legume--aka, the Lond bean, or Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, the source of guar gum]. Walker gets additional erosion protection on his peanut lands from rye and vetch cover crop and by leaving peanut hay on the ground. III-12CT. TX-47-556.
Date:
April 16, 1951
Creator:
Tompkins, Gordon
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Churches
Photograph of the Reverend Murray Kay delivering a conservation sermon every year in observance of Soil Stewardship Sunday but he practices conservation the year-round on his farm in the Round Grove Community. He is a cooperator with the Upper Leon Soil Conservation District and is a member of the Round Grove group. Reverend Kay’s great-great grandfather is in the picture’s background. He founded the Round Grove Church in 1871 (the founder’s name was Ruben Rome). TX-46, 504.
Date:
March 2, 1950
Creator:
Putnam, Jack
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Conservation Planning
Photograph of a typical meeting of the Round Grove Conservation Group at the community church. Dean Gardner, group leader, takes charge of the meeting. Reverend Murray Kay, great-grandson of the founder of the church, right foreground, is pastor of the church and a conservation farmer in the Round Grove Conservation Group. TX-46, 502.
Date:
March 2, 1950
Creator:
Putnam, Jack
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Graded Border Irrigation System
Photograph of graded Border Irrigation System. (4300 Acre). Water is pumped from Verdigris River at N. 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 irrigation in 1956. The system designed provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date:
November 17, 1955
Creator:
Hurd, Moreland
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History