Data collection and tools

Photograph of a clip board designed for holding engineering field notes while working on the farm. This clipboard was developed by E. E. Ray, a Work Group Engineer headquartered at Fort Smith, Arkansas. See the “A” photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Data collection and tools

Photograph of Owen E. Allred, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC] using a small carry board device to handle engineering field notes while working in the field. Note metal enclosed border that holds the engineering notes securely even on windy days. See “B” photo. AR-61-612-A.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a 2B model, Krussow Double spiral 2-unit seed separator which operates by gravity and can be utilized in separating balboa rye seed (oblong) from hairy vetch seed (round) after chaff and foreign matter have been removed by a regular seed cleaner. A Future Farmers of America [FFA] demonstration that bags, separates and cleans their own and farmers' seeds in their area on a custom basis to raise funds for their chapter. AR-16, 42. Cf. https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1773213/
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Field

Photograph of a grass field.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a number of cows grazing a in pasture, with trees visible along the edges in the background. Handwritten note on back: "Pasture mgt. This pasture has lost about forty percent of the forage by not having the [cow] droppings scattered. J.A. Treadway Mt. Ida, ARK"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a cow grazing on fescue and ladino clover.
Date: unknown
Creator: Adkisson, G. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 Fescue

Photograph of a Kentucky 31 Fescue graph.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Poteau River Basin Association Meeting

Photograph of "Rev. John E. Evens, chairman of the Poteau River Basin Association speaking to the fifth annual meeting of the association." With the exception of Evans, who is at the microphone podium, there are over 50 UNIDENTIFIED people in the photograph's foreground and background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Poe, Buford
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodlands

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Technician Andrew Costner and Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) board member Jack Rabourn discuss a pine area on a soil best suited to woodland use. OK-2483-7.
Date: August 4, 1966
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodlands

Photograph of landowner Jack Rabourn observes as a Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Technician uses a woodland stick in discussion of the landowner's woodland program of management. OK-2453-8.
Date: February 4, 1966
Creator: Costner, Andrew
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Praying Hands in a Wheat Field

Photograph of hands, in a prayer stance, rising from a wheat field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Give us this day our daily bread."
Date: May 2, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A strand of pine after thinning. AR-61-861-A.
Date: September 8, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A stump of one of the largest trees cut is thinning.. AR-61-861-B.
Date: September 8, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of second year land that has been in rice production. Cleared from woods in 1951 and 1952. AR-61, 868.
Date: August 27, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the W.J. Alderson farm, showing Herefords on pasture established in 1950 on severly eroded Crowfley’s Ridge. AR-61-878.
Date: August 19, 1953
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of the marked trees being cut. AR-61-855-C.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of an area of pine marked to show the trees to be saved, 1 - 9, when thinning is done. No. 10 is a young pine for a crop tree that will develop when the "bull pine in the foreground is cut." AR-61-855-A.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of Forest-Range. Note overgrazing is not only holding back pine reproduction but the grass is going out. AR-61-871.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of an area sprayed by chemicals to kill scrubby hardwoods. Note the excellent stand of native grasses. This area produced over 100 pounds of beef per acre in 1952. AR-61-873.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of the Blackjack-Post Oak Ridge Range site. Range in poor condition. AR-61-872.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of cattle grazing on chemical-sprayed area. Area sprayed in June, 1952.AR-61-876.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a post oak tree flat range site. H.C. Ray, Forest and Range Specialist determining the age of the trees. AR-61-870.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Troxall, A. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History