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Grain Sorghum Stubble
Photograph of grain sorghum stubble on Dalhart fine sandy loam soil. Stubble 16 inches high. This should be good enough to control wind erosion.
Date:
December 16, 1956
Creator:
Murphy, R. S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grain Sorghum Stubble Used to Control Wind Erosion on Barnes Farm
Photograph of grain sorghum stubble used to control wind erosion on Barnes farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Grain sorghum stubble on Dalhart fine sandy loam soil. Stubble is 16 inches high. This should be good enough to control wind erosion."
Date:
December 16, 1956
Creator:
Murphy, R. S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Core drill drilling 12" dia. holes thru 18'' corr. sh. mt. pipe set in the working platform. Holes were drilled 40' deep to be used in forming concrete piles and a spread footing.
Date:
December 14, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Core drill drilling 40' holes for setting concrete piles and spread footing. Note ground water flowing from hole.
Date:
December 14, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Eight UNIDENTIFED Workers Grouting Working Platform For Prevention/Municipal Structure at Site #22, Wildhorse Creek
Photograph of eight UNIDENTIFIED workers grouting working platform for prevention/municipal structure at Site #22, Wildhorse Creek. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Flood Prevention Structure. Halliburton cementing truck grouting working platform under the municipal structure."
Date:
December 6, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of brush control. Conservation aid, Jesse Nail, showing the fins on a root plow. These fins are set at a 45 degree angle to the blade to pull up roots of brush and to produce the turbulence necessary for seedbed preparation. The fins have a large share of the effectiveness of the operation. TX-602-9.
Date:
December 6, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Halliburton cementing truck grouting working platform under the municipal structure
Date:
December 6, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Pipes in crushed stone for grouting working platform under the municipal structure.
Date:
December 6, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Creek Washita River
Photograph of flood prevention structure Halliburton cementing trucks iin operation grouting the working platform under the municipal structure.
Date:
December 6, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Three UNIDENTIFED Workers Placing Crushed Stone Around 18-Inch Corrugated Sheet Metal Pipe for Municipal/Flood Prevention Structure
Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED workers placing crushed stone around 18-inch corrugated sheet metal pipe in preparation for grouting to form working platform under municipal/flood prevention structure. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Flood Prevention Structure. Placing crushed stone around 18" corr. sh. mt. pipe in preparation for grouting to form working platform under municipal structure."
Date:
December 4, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Placing crushed stone around 18' corr. sh. mt. pipe in preparation for grouting to form working platform under municipal structure.
Date:
December 4, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Washita Watershed Wildhorse Creek Sub-Watershed
Photograph of flood prevention structure. Placing crushed stone around 18' corr. sh. mt. pipe in preparation for grouting working platform under the municipal structure.
Date:
December 4, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Site 22, Wildhorse Creek Municipal Tower Base Construction
Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man looking down towards the base of a municipal tower foundation at Site 22, Wildhorse Creek. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Site 22, Wildhorse Creek. Municipal tower foundation base. Setting 18” corrugated pipe, to hold back sand and water allow drilling of 12” Dia. Holes 40” deeper 8” Dia. Holes 40” deeper 8” Dia. Caseing [sic] them to be set in each hole and concrete pumped down forming 12” piles and a spread footing 70’ below natural ground.”
Date:
December 2, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Creek Municipal Tower Base
Photograph of site 22, Wildhorse Creek. Municipal tower foundtion base. Setting 18' corrugated pipe, to hold back sand and water to allow drilling of 12" Dia. Holes 40" deeper 8" Dia. caseing them to be set in each hole and a spread footing 70' below natural ground.
Date:
December 2, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Creek Municipal Tower Base
Photograph of site 22, Wildhorse Creek. Municipal tower foundtion base. Setting 18" corrugated pipe, to hold back sand and water to allow drilling of 12'"Dia. Holes 40" deeper 8" Dia. caseing them to be set in each hole and a spread footing 70' below natural ground.
Date:
December 2, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Creek Municipal Tower Base
Photograph of site 22, Wildhorse Creek. Municipal tower foundtion base. Setting 18' corrugated pipe, to hold back sand and water to allow drilling of 12' Dia. Holes 40' deeper 8' Dia. caseing them to be set in each hole and a spread footing 70' below natural ground.
Date:
December 2, 1956
Creator:
Cornforth, Kenneth
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Supplemental Pasture
Photograph of a supplemental pasture of oats and vetch seeded in Bermudagrass sod. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Supplemental Pasture. Oats and vetch seeded in Bermudagrass sod in the fall of 1956. Seeding was done with a sod disc and about 200 pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer was applied with the seed. Fifteen pounds of vetch and 2 bushels per acre were seeded in the Bermudagrass sod. Owner plans to use oats and vetch as winter grazing for his cattle."
Date:
November 30, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Supplemental Pasture of Oats and Vetch Seeded in Bermudagrass Sod
Photograph of a supplemental pasture of oats and vetch seeded in Bermudagrass sod in the fall of 1956. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Oats and vetch seeded in Bermudagrass sod in the fall of 1956. Seeding was done with a sod disc with about 200 pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer being applied with the seed. Fifteen pounds of vetch and 2 bushels of oats per acre were seeded in the Bermudagrass sod. Owner Planned to use the oats and vetch as winter grazing for his cattle."
Date:
November 30, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Conservation, Management and Utilization
Photograph of forestry lumber. A general view of a lumber yard and storage sheds at Herron lumber mill. Storage sheds and wood working rooms are laid out in a definite manner to make lumber easier to handle and store to reduce time and labor needed to produce the finished product. OK-413-11.
Date:
November 28, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of hardwood control. Quintas Herron, owner, and C. P. Durk [?], Soil Conservation Service, examine pine trees released by deadening culled hardwood trees with a basal injection of 2-4-5T herbicide in December, 1954. Planting an acre of pine seedlings costs about $8.00 per acre where controlling hardwoods to release young pine costs about $4.00 per acre. Natural reproduction of pine produces more trees per acre to be cut as poles, posts and pulpwood than plantings. OK-414-3.
Date:
November 28, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of forestry lumber. The dry kiln at Herron mill, Idabel, Oklahoma. The kiln was installed to conserve time. Lumber is gas dried and ready 48 hours after being put through the kiln. Several mills in southeast Oklahoma have installed these kilns in a modernization of the lumber industry. Improvements in machinery and management at the mill and in the forest have been adopted to upgrade the lumber industry in this area. OK-413-10.
Date:
November 28, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of Luther Lawson felling a pine tree. This tree is being taken down for lack of growth progress owing to fire damage. To gain the best from a forest, all space must be conserved for sound trees properly spaced to get the maximum footage from each acre. OK-414-7.
Date:
November 28, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Conservation Education
Photograph of the Vocational Agriculture class at Smithville, Okla. High School studying conservation plan map of school forest. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Left to right is J. C. Brown, Glenn Scott, Jack Brock, Instructor, back row; Glen Hensley, Tom Stickle, Don McClung, Steve Hilton and Luther Baxter. The boys of this class are learning forestry by doing as well as studying in class.
Date:
November 27, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Forestry Training
Photograph of Smithville, Okla. Vocational Agriculture class with instructor examining pine tree that should be removed from the forest because it is defective. Small log or pulpwood will be cut from defective trees of this type. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Selective cutting has been carried out on 20 acres in the 1955 and 1956 compartment. The high school's senior class receives the net income from this forest project.
Date:
November 27, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History