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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of 4 1/2 acres of Madrid sweet clover, planted on the contour on May 26, 1945, at the rate of two pounds per acre. Clover has been grassed and an electric fence separates it from the adjacent cultivated field. TX. 1015.
Date: November 28, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Switch grass doing good on a turned out field. Naturally reseeded. No Assistance. TX, 42-392.
Date: November 16, 1945
Creator: Bill, F. Lewis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of apparent flooding around Marfa, Texas {Photo text to faded and broken up for legibility].
Date: September 27, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of range cattle at watering trough. Typical [illegible] farm, heavily overgrazed. TX-42-243.
Date: September 26, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of cattle on pasture land.
Date: September 26, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service technician (left) and Harry Newer (right), Soil Conservation Supervisor examine some of the cured weeping lovegrass hay that is being baled from windrows on a 2 ½ acre field planted 14 ½ months ago. On June 15 it yielded 350 pounds of reclaimed seed valued at $3.50 to $4.00 per acre. Forty-five days after the grass was cut with a binder for seed it yielded 10 [number unclear], sixty-five pound bales of hay. Total value of yield from planter to date is about $1200 or $600 per acre.** He [Mr. Newer?] planted lovegrass March 27, 1944 after his wife asked him to “sow that field [with] something that will keep the dust out of the house.” He plans to plant an additional 8 or 10 acres of lovegrass next year. OK-9042.
Date: August 31, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cultivated Field to be Terraced

Photograph of a cultivated field to be terraced on the W. K. Y. watershed taken from Camera Station #4. The back of the photograph proclaims, "(Camera Station #4. Looking S. up second terrace that empties in pasture W. of farmstead. Camera 40' N. of fence.) W. K. Y Watershed. Cultivated field to be terraced. Ends of terraces will extend out into native pasture (in foreground) which will serve as an outlet."
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9029.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9024.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9036.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9037.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9028.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo grazing on native prairie on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9022.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo watering on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9026.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9027.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9034.
Date: August 30, 1945
Creator: Merrill, L. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Class VII Land Use Capability

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED person showing the formation of a gully or ravine on Class VII land with a soil 20, and 2% slope somewhere in Roger Mills County. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Land use capability Class VII. Soil 20, 2% slope. Rolling Red Plains. Retired from cultivation and reseeded to sideoats, hairy and blue grama, bluestem, weeping lovegrass. Seeded 1941."
Date: August 29, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of horses grazing on revegetated Class VII land, planted in 1942 with a mixture of side-oats, blue end hairy grass, bluestem and weeping love-grass. Mr. [unclear] is a district Supervisor. OK-9186.
Date: August 29, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of Class V land (due to high water table). Rolling Red Plains. Sedge cover is utilized for grazing and hay. Bottom land soil. OK-9124.
Date: August 29, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of sideoats grama grass that was seeded in the Spring of 1942 in 36" rows by oil Conservation Services Nursery, Woodward, Oklahoma. Has been cultivated and was mowed for weed control while young. Seed ware combined in 1944 and 1945. OK-9079.
Date: August 28, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

U. S. Government Tract 184 Revegetation of Range Land

Photograph of revegetation of rangeland on U. S. Government Tract 184. An UNIDENTIFED man kneels in a field of two year old Bluestem and blue grama grasses planted in 1944. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Revegetation of range land. Two year old planting of bluestem and blue grama grasses. Planted spring of 1944."
Date: August 28, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

U. S. Government Tract 120 Grassy Field

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man kneeling in a field of native grasses. This particular field consists of little bluestem, sideoats, blue grama, and sand lovegrass. The text on the back of the photograph proclaims, "Three year old planting (seeded in cane cover crop in spring of 1943) of native grasses. Six row mixture of little bluestem, side oats [sic], and blue grama and one row of sand lovegrass. Has not been utilized but could be slightly grazed. Will be grazed in 1946. Field formerly was in cultivation."
Date: August 27, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stocked Pond

Photograph of rancher J.E. Time (right) shows Fred Whittington, Soil Conservation Service Technician, one of the 16 ponds on his ranch. This one was stocked with fish in the fall of 1944.
Date: August 26, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Boy Scouts of America

Photograph of Camp director J.D. Smoot holding the boat on a 2.5 acre lake stocked with bluegill breen, black bass & channel catfish, and is used for swimming, boating and fishing. In the foreground, L to R: Dean Hess, Gene Poyner & Gerald Hoff statter. In the boat in the background are David Sradar [sp.?] & Jimmie Kemp. OK-9104.
Date: August 25, 1945
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History