Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of showing preparation to stop soil blowing. A farmer is making last minute preparations on a tractor pulling spring-tooth harrow to stop the soil from blowing. A program of crop residue management and legume rotation could have prevented this last minute operation. OK-396-7.
Date: October 24, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Texas Experiment Station Watermelons

Photograph of Superintendent L. E. Brooks and SCS Agronomist D. G. Craig discussing watermelon variety test at the Texas Experiment Station at Iowa Park. The photograph does not give the left to right positions of either Brooks or Craig. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Mr. L. E. Brooks, Supt. Iowa Park Experiment Station and D. G. Craig, Agronomist for SCS, discuss watermelon [sic] variety test on Station Watermellons [sic] followed two years of Madrid clover. Wheat follows mellons [sic]."
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: Craig, D. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watermelon Field on Iowa Park Experiment Station

Photograph of a watermelon field on Iowa Park Experiment Station. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Watermellon [sic] variety test on Iowa Park Experiment Station. Also See 465-7."
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: Craig, D. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History