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Crop Rotation of Wheat and Sweet Clover
Photograph of crop rotation of wheat and sweet clover; also showing contour farming and residue management. A good system of crop rotation is regularly followeed on this farm using sweet clover and alfalfa as soil improving crops. Terraces and waterway have been established under supervision of SCD.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Baggett, Beryl
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Close-Up of Stubble Mulch
Photograph of a close-up of stubble mulch. This is irrigated wheat. Mr. Staton stubble mulches wheat land with Holme followed with heavy duty double tandem disc to work mulch into surface soil. Average wheat yield is 40 bushels per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Borders and Irrigation
Photograph of Mr. Staton contour bordered and seeded to Buffalo Alfalfa for seed production. This field has produced 600 pounds of seed per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm. Class III Soil Unit 7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch
Photograph of a close-up picture of stubble mulch. Mr. Staton stubble mulches wheat land with Holme followed with heavy duty double tandem disc to work muclh into surface soil. Average wheat yield is 40 bushels per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stubble Mulch
Photograph of irrigated wheat. Mr. Staton is using a heavy duty tandem disc plow in wheat stubble to till the soil and eradicate present weeds. This method leaves plenty of stubble on the surface for a good mulch at wheat planting time. He says his wheat yields 40 bushels per acre. Class I, Soil Unit 8.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tilling Wheat Stubble for Mulch
Photograph of Mr. Staton using a heavy duty tandem disc plow in wheat stubble to till the soil and eradicate present weeds. This method leaves plenty of stubble on the surface for a good mulch at wheat planting time. He says his wheat yields 40 bushels per acre. Class I, Soil Unit 8.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Bailey, Oran F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Irrigation, Transcrete Pipe
Photograph of Transcrete pipe being laid for irrigation on bottomland soil unit 9. Gated pipe will be used from risers on 660' runs.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of a close up of photo OK-1362-7, in which Soil Conservation Service {SCS] Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke points out the first deadening of cull hardwood. Note the effect of the pine release by axe girdling of this large oak. OK-1362-8.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Deadening of Hardwoods by Girdling
Photograph of SCS Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke points out the first deadening of cull hardwood. Note effect of pine release by axe girdling of this large oak.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Julia Church Estate Collective Terrace Outlet
Photograph of Tanner C. Smith, right, SCS technician, and Homer Wilson, Left, farmer, evaluate collective terrace outlet recently planted to Bermudagrass on group 2 Blackland. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Homer Wilson, 2. Tanner C. Smith. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Collective terrace outlet recently planted to Bermudagrass on Group 2 Blackland. After grass has become well established, 80 acres will be terraced and outletted on this 150 ft. strip. The strip will be fenced and used for pasture as well as a terrace outlet. Homer Wilson, local, farmer, appears on the left, & SCS Technician Tanner C. Smith on right."
Date:
July 15, 1950
Creator:
Brock, C. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology
Photograph of SCS District Conservationist Hadley Meinders (left) and Dr. Howard Clemens discuss the self feeder used at the Clemens' catfish farm (Sooner Fish Farms).
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology
Photograph of SCS District Conservationist Hadley Meinders (left) and Dr. Howard Clemens discuss the self feeder used at the Clemens' catfish farm (Sooner Fish Farms).
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens (left) and SCS District Conservationist Hadley Meinders discuss management practices of catfish farming operations.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology Catfish Spawn
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens displaying catfish spawn taken from nest from one of his brood ponds.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Catfish Hatching Troughs
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens places catfish spawn in hatching troughs. Spawn are aerated through use of mechanical agitators.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Watersheds, Lindsay Lake
Photograph of George A. Brown, Lindsay businessman (left) and District Conservationist Hadley Meinders, Purcell, discuss rules and regulations pertaining to the multipurpose lake located north of Purcell.
Date:
July 15, 1907
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alfalfa Pasture
Photograph of fine crop of Alfalfa now ready for second cutting growing on this land that was formerly too wet to be productive. SCS Technician, J.A. Killough finds field well drained on morning following heavy downpour the previous afternoon after intormittent rains had fallen for more than a week. Lateral ditch bank seen in right background. Camera facing NE.
Date:
July 15, 1951
Creator:
Fox, Lester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Loamy Prairie Range Claypan Area
Photograph of Left-Loamy prairie range as included in loamy slickspot range site. Supports tallgrass mixture of little bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. Smaller amounts of sideoats grama. Note grass plants growing on exposed subsoil. Right-Claypan area as included in loamy slickspot site, supports meadow dropseed, blue grama, annual threeawn, sand dropseed, western ragweek, sideoats grama, fringeleaf paspalm, gummy lovegrass, and more whorled dropseed.
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Loamy Slickspot Range Site
Photograph of the Loamy Slickspot range site. On left is slickspot with alkali sacaton, whorled dropseed, and tumblegrass. On right is claypan with meadow dropseed, western ragweed, sideoats grama, and fringeeleaf paspalm, gummy lovegrass and some whorled dropseed.
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Eastern Gamagrass Identification
Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, Oklahoma City highschool students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. 4-H and FFA groups have found the plots helpful for review work in training for the National Land, Range and Pasture Contest sponsored each year by WKY and WKY-TV in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman's Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Expostion. OK-298-7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Exhibitions and Presentations
Photograph of H.R. Wells, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Biology Specialist in Oklahoma, studies the value of Vanada wild rye for food and cover for wildlife. This cool season native grass is a good source of food for quail, as well as excellent for grazing and, additionally, erosion. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Oklahoma chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedmen’s Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-9.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of H.R. Wells, biologist, left, and M.D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a western wheatgrass planting. This native, cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This ;iving grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman's Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of H. R. Wells, biologist, left, and M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a Western wheatgrass planting. This native cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, right, Oklahoma City high school students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-7.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History