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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] manager getting Greenfield Bermuda grass roots for sprigging. The District makesequipment available to do conservation for which there is not equipment available from other sources. OK-1382-1.
Date:
July 30, 1961
Creator:
Costner, Andrew
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] equipment manager getting Greenfiled Bermuda grass roots for sprigging. The District makes equipment available for conservation for which there is not equipment available from other sources. OK-1382-1.
Date:
July 30, 1961
Creator:
Costner, Andrew
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a peanut filed with no winter cover. OK-1293-12.
Date:
March 24, 1961
Creator:
Dowling, Leo E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the excellent condition of a native grass meadow. Note seed heads and amount of regrowth held in hand of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, Lemeul Ball. This is the proper use on a native bay meadow. The regrowth is necessary in order to maintain vigor of the stand. OK-1482-8.
Date:
October 16, 1961
Creator:
Costner, Andrew
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Soil and Water Conservation Department [SWCD] equipement used in planting land to Sericea meadow. Soil and Conservation Service technicians aided the land owner to see the need for permanent cover on this soil. OK-1382-4.
Date:
July 3, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a close-up of an anchor chain being used to drag timber as pulled by two bulldozers. Cost was $9.00 per acre. Brush will be winnowed with bulldozer and burned. Grass will be planted after land is cleared. OK-1491-12.
Date:
October 28, 1961
Creator:
Collins, F. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of showing a close-up of a root rake made from heavy railroad spikes assembled on a heavy bulldozer for the purpose of combing stumps or roots out of the ground on 300 acres of land that is being cleared below a detention reservior on the Wildhorse Creek Watershed. OK-1395-2.
Date:
July 25, 1961
Creator:
Lowe, Sam D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Conservation, Management and Utilization
Photograph of a fire in weeping lovegrass. Blaze controlled by Civil Defense [CD] and Soil Conservation District {SCD] fire fighting units. OK-1265-11.
Date:
February 12, 1961
Creator:
Brown, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Conservation, Management and Utilization
Photograph of pasture. Hereford cattle grazing on fescue and ladino clover. Mr. Addison regularly consults with Soil Conservation Service technicians on land treatment needs on his pasture and woodland. OK-1463-6.
Date:
September 20, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemeul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Conservation, Management and Utilization
Photograph of conservation of soil and water by planting Bermuda grass and clovers is a requirement on many formerly cropped areas. Soil and water Conservation District [SWCD] Supervisor Dick Allen shows Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician Tom Curtis the quality hay harvested from such cover. Hay can be sold for cash or fed to Allen's livestock. OK-1492-2.
Date:
October 23, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of the installation of 8 inch helcore corrugated pipe showing cut-off wall. Installed for principal spillway in an erosion control pond. Constructed under a General Partnership [GP] program. OK-1297-11.
Date:
March 24, 1961
Creator:
Hall, Joe B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Future Farmers of America (since 1988: National FFA Organization or FFA)
Photograph of, from left to right, Leon Hall, Doyle Stewart, Larry Hall, Donald Hichman, Darius Bandy, Joe Stewart, forman of FFA (House Chapter), as the planting crew. Hilt Summers as the land owner. The crew planted 10,000 short leaf pine trees. OK-1260-9.
Date:
1961
Creator:
Turney, Douglas
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of woodland management. Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke examines rows of Shortleaf pine on a Soil Conservation District [SCD] Cooperator. Note rows and growth for 4 years. OK-1368-11.
Date:
July 16, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemeul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of deferred native pasture, Leroy Mindeman farm / ranch. Native grass pasture east of the house. Grass was grazed into the ground. This is how it looks after grazing was deferred for one year. New pond in the background. OK-1430-2.
Date:
August 16, 1961
Creator:
Smith, Bob J.
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
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the J. R. Simmons ranch. Plot # 5. The field was seeded to a pure stand of native sideoats grama harvested from the ranch. OK-1286-10.
Date:
March 14, 1961
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the J. R. Simmons ranch. Plot # 4. A six-acre field planted to a mixture of native grass on the Red Shale site. Grass was seeded on March 24, 1959. Seed furnished by the Plant Material Center. The mixture for this plot was: Little bluestem, blue grama, sand bluestem, Illinois bundleflower, Caddo Switchgrass and native sideoats grama. OK-1286-9.
Date:
March 14, 1961
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of range seeding. Claude Gilbert, Assistant Supervisor, seeding tall native grasses with a district drill. OK-1349-2.
Date:
January 17, 1961
Creator:
Prickett, B. P.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of the Reese Pole Plant near Heavener. When Soil and Conservation District [SCD] cooperators thin pine stands to D + 6 [= diameter of tree + 6 ft for spacing between trees], the posts ate part of the harvest. These posts are ready for the treatment vat. OK-1480-6.
Date:
September 26, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History