[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0433]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Christmas Tree is first of its kind in Oklahoma and stands as a marker at the state's first quadruple-producer, Gill Oil No. 2 McAfee, on the northwest flank of the Healdton Field, in Jefferson County."
Date: February 12, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1122.0392]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. J. Redford, vocational agriculture instructor at Waurika High School, is watching every step of construction on the $25,000 building being erected for his department."
Date: August 22, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A Heavily Grazed Pasture

Photograph of a heavily grazed pasture, note poor calves and frequent dung piles.
Date: February 15, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tepee Type Exclosure

Photograph of a tepee style exclosure to be used for yield data and to help ranchers determine degree of use. Teepee's cost approximately $10 not including labor.
Date: March 22, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Elbon Rye Being Harvested

Photograph of Elbon rye being harvested. Rye was planted for cover crop and pasture. Good seed crop was harvested. Approximately 30 bushels per acre.
Date: July 12, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-12. Native grass seeding on complex. OK-1467-2.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of land clearance and shrub control. Follow-up of OK-1002-3. Land cleared with a saw and later sprayed. OK-1467-7.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of land clearance and brush control. Follow up of 1002-2. Brush sprayed with 2-4-5T herbicide in 1954. OK-1467-6.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grass land near Ryan, Oklahoma. A typical landscape. Deep sand range site, fair condition, Minco fine sandy loam soil type. Principal forage species are little bluestem, sideoats grama, tall dropseed, Scribner’s panicum. Non forage plants are sandage, gaura, spp. [Latin = species pluralis: “multiple species”], doze-daisy; yucca-woody species are sand plum and prickly ash. OK-1466-1.
Date: August 1, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-9. Native grass seeding made in 1954. This is the first year out of a CR [cost reimbursement] contract. OK-1466-11.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species are green briar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash, and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalo grass, tumble love grass, tall drop seed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats grama and little bluestem. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Following Alfalfa on Bottom Land

Photograph of wheat following alfalfa on bottom land. Note heavy straw. Yield approximaely 40 bushels per acre. Residue to be left on top not plowed.
Date: July 12, 1961
Creator: Hagar, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Following Alfalfa

Photograph of wheat following alfalfa on bottom land. Note heavy straw. Yield approximaely 40 bushels per acre. Residue to be left on top not plowed.
Date: July 12, 1961
Creator: Hagar, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a gully before shaping. Camera directed east with follow up shot to be taken. OK-1290-8.
Date: March 8, 1961
Creator: Hagar, F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of more brush control. A follow-up of OK-1002-1. Brush sprayed in May 1957 with 2-4-5T herbicide. OK-1467-5.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1001-2. Native grass seeding on claypan. OK-1467-2. OK-1467-4.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-4. Native grass mixture seeded in the spring of 1957. OK-1466-10.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grass plantings. Follow-up of OK-487-10. Native grass plantings of 1957. OK-1467-3.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of a close-up of mesquite roots showing bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow. OK-1407-8.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of land clearance. Follow-up of OK-1002-7. Timber cleared in 1951 and sprayed in 1959. OK-1467-8.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a root plow in operation in a mesquite thicket. Area sprayed previously. It appeared that most of the trees were dead but sprouted back. Present trees are from old sprouts. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. Principle grass: buffalo grass. OK-1407-7.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Little bluestem in phytometer,* clipped at 3 different levels weekly during growing season. OK-1466-7. * a device that measures a plant’s transpiration (i.e., water movement through the plant including evaporation from its aerial parts) by placing it in a sealed soil-containing vessel so that water can escape only through the plant’s transpiration.
Date: September 24, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exclosure Fence

Photograph of an exclosure fence at the end of growing season on Red Clay Prairie site.
Date: September 4, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pecan Development on Beaver Creek

Photograph of a Pecan development on Beaver Creek. Note dense stand of timber in background where clearing has not taken place. Grass is beginning to improve.
Date: July 13, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History