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Livestock (and Grasses)
Photograph of stream bank improvement. Brush was cleared from the area, with pecan trees left standing. Stream banks were shaped and area sprigged to bermuda grass in the spring of 1961. OK-1471-10.
Date:
October 5, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Livestock (and Grasses)
Photograph of stream bank improvement after shaping and sprigging were completed. Cattle have been grazing most of the summer after sprigging early in the spring. Yahola [?] very fine sandy loam (9) soil. The before picture is OK-1278-11 (classed under "Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention"). OK-1468-12.
Date:
September 29, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a young lady picking up pecans in one of the many pecan orchards in Garvin County. OK-1251-9.
Date:
January 17, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of Virgil Howard. Timber and undergrowth with pecan trees mixed in. Will be cleared of all except the pecan trees and sprigged with Bermuda grass. OK-1251-1.
Date:
January 17, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of streambank improvement. On a tributary of Beef Creek. Entire area will be sprigged to Bermuda grass. Work done with a bulldozer. OK-1278-11.
Date:
February 28, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].
Photograph of roadside improvement. The Fall after shaping and sprigging in the Spring. Good cover of Bermuda grass to stop erosion. Skeet Gregory and Elved Luttrell in the picture. Quinlen very fine sandy loam (2D) soil. OK-1471-5.
Date:
October 5, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Watershed Planning and Construction
Photograph of a watershed. Criner [?] Creek. Site # 4. Completed in 1959 and stocked with Bass, Blue Gill and Channel Cat [fish?]. [Note dam in the background]. OK-988-11.
Date:
July 12, 1961
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of diversion terraces. Newly constructed diversion terrace. The terrace carries the water to a farm pond. Yahola fine sandy loam soil. OK-1471-8.
Date:
October 5, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Roadside Improvement
Photograph of roadside improvement. Newly concreted chute on a road ditch on Highway 59B. Cooperative planning by farmer Jack Luttrell, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), State Highway Department and Soil Conservation Service (SCS). OK-1300-11.
Date:
April 4, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cattle Grazing on Properly Managed Newly Established Bermudagrass
Photograph of six heads of cattle grazing on newly established Bermudagrass on a properly maintained pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Proper pasture use/management. Cattle grazing newly established Bermuda grass. Grass was sprigged newly established Bermuda grass. Grass was sprigged 4-6-61. Pasture was mowed once. Scattering of threeawn is present. Chickasha fine sandy loam (7} soil. Before picture No. Ok-1305-2, 4 and 5."
Date:
October 20, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of pasture planting. Unloading Bermuda sprigs from a truck to a trailer on a sprigger. OK-1305-2.
Date:
April 6, 1961
Creator:
Fortney, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History