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- Gully Caused by Heavy Rainfall
- Photograph of a gully caused by the 19-inch rainfall which fell in 7-hours on June 22. This gully, 25 feet deep and 40 feet wide, & several blocks long, is in the middle of what was a travelled street before the rain started. Less than 2 acres of land drain into the gully above its head.
- Gully Control
- Photograph of gully control by diverting wter, sloping banks and planting trees. This area was formerly a huge gully caused by unprotected diversion ditch. An area has been fenced out of pasture. Gully banks sloped, diversion terrace constructed and cottonwood and black locust trees planted. Erosion is 100% stabilized and trees show good growth. Geary, Okla. CCC Camp
- John Briscoe Ranch
- Photograph of the John Briscoe Ranch, part of the 70 acre old cultivated field retired and planted to little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and blue-green grasses about the 1st of March 1945. Mixture was seeded at a rate of approximately 12 pounds per acre. This 10 acres was seeded for permannet pasture on clean cotton land. Yield is estimated to be 30 to 35 pounds combined material per acre. Briscoe retired 135 acres last year on this farm and 65 acres on another farm he owns. Next year he plans to plant 20 additional acres of bluestem on a field no win rye and vetch. Driving the tractor is Curtis Hudson, coopeator, one mile east of Geary, while his brother, Dillard, rides the combine. OK-9260.
- Geary Camp
- Photograph of a highway sign five miles north of Geary erected by the camp on the north boundary of its demonstration area. OK-5451.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 soil mix (= 70% topsoil plus 30% composting materials) or a heads or tillage per square foot number (https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/estimating-wheat-grain-yield-potential-2.html)
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of crop residue utilization. Earl Judge, left Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Soil Conservation District [SCD]-65, and D.G. Craig, Agronomist, Great Plains states, checking prospects for a good wheat yield. Mr. Jude Matli, an SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent soil loss from his 70 soil by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-7.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 soil mix (= 70% topsoil plus 30% composting materials) or a heads or tillage per square foot number (https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/estimating-wheat-grain-yield-potential-2.html)
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching on wheat land. Stubble mulch implement of Guy Schroder’s. This implement has a series of five 32-inch sweeps. Schroder is a cooperator with the North Caddo Soil Conservation District [SCD] and started the Soil Conservation Service program on this farm in 1950.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of pegs indicating the presence of one or more little bluestem seedlings which are invading a gravelly area. OK-10, 501.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of grass seedlings indicated. Each peg marks the location of one or more small bluestem seedlings starting growth in dense buffalo grass. OK-10, 502-B.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of native grass planting. This 7-acre seeding of Caucasian bluestem was planted in rows in 1951 on soil IV-12. Mr. Graden Teeter, shown, is a Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor. His use of this seedling has been consistent with good management practices. He has used it for a seed increase plot and for winter grazing. Note volunteer seedlings covering the areas between the rows. OK-298-1.
- Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
- Photograph of blackjack spraying, showing Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration [FHA], observing the kill and deterioration of woody growth following chemical treatment which was applied in 1956 and 1957. OK-703-12.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of native grass. Lee Awtrey, Work Unit Conservationist {WUC] Elza Bullen of the Central North Canadian Soil Conservation District [SCD], and Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration [FHA], observing the growth of the native grass in pasture that had been chemically treated to kill blackjack growth. OK-703-10.
- Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
- Photograph of the W.K.Y. watershed. Aerial view of a gullied, natural draw to be controlled by diversion of runoff, sloping and sodding. Field in the lower left will be terraced with outlets onto native grass pasture. The pond is to be constructed near the lower end of the gullied draw. See OK-9112, -9113 and -9119). OK-9114.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of the harvesting of a mung bean crop planted at 20 pounds per acre on June 1, 1943. Farm planner Harold Welch (left) and Earl Tucker (right) farm owner, examine the crop. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and the average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 to 315 pounds per acre. The beans followed a barley crop destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil-improving qualities of mung beans,” he said, “and I hope to work out a rotation with wheat.” The beans are selling at 5 cents per pound. OK-8580.
- Stubble Mulching
- Photograph of SCS Technician B.P. Prickett examining stubble mulch tillage. First time over with 32" sweeps-4" deep. Before 3" rain. No runoff here from rain. Adjoining cotton field washed considerably.
- Blackjack Spraying
- Photograph of Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of FHA, observing the kill and deterioration of woody growth following chemical treatment which was supplied in 1956 and 1957.
- Great Plains Conservation Program
- Photograph of GPCP participant Vernon Breckenridge checking one-year growth of midland bermuda. Breckenridge has sprigged 20 acres of bermuda grass for each of the last three years.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of switchgrass on seed increase plot at Canton Lake. Planted in 1949. OK-98-8.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of upland alfalfa for soil management, William Widnay farm. Earl Judge (right) discusses the advantage of alfalfa on upland for soil building and cover. Mr. Widney uses alfalfa in his conservation crop rotation. This was seeded in the fall of 1952. For a nurse crop, ½ bushel of wheat per acre cross-drilled in wide spaced rows (every other row drilled). Wheat made 20 bushels per acre. Utilization of alfalfa has been spring hay crop, seed crop in the summer, and fall pasture. He has another planting of alfalfa and plans to plow this one up in the fall. His plans are for the alfalfa to be in a 3-year rotation. He has been a soil conservation district cooperator since 1948. OK-279-10.
- Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
- Photograph of a pasture gully in a natural draw. Runoff water has been eliminated from the channel by a two pond dams, one above and one below this area. Mr. Harold Atkins is a District Supervisor. OK-8850.
- Gully Erosion Near Eagle City
- Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a gully, which will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass to control gully erosion and protect the endangered cropland. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Gully Erosion. Gully that is endangering cropland. This gully will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass in order to get water to the base grade and control the gully. See Ok-724-5 for view farther up the gully.”
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of harvesting mung beans planted 20 pounds [?] per acre, June 1, 1943. Mr. Earl Tucker (operating combine) said that he planted 30 acres this year and had never tried to grow a mung bean crop before. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 – 315 pounds per acre. The beans are following barley as destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil improving qualities of mung beans,” he said, “and I hope to work out a rotation with wheat”. The beans are selling at 5 cents per pound. OK-8579.
- Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes
- Photograph of wind erosion control on peanut [?] land. 8 rows of kafir corn alternating with 12 rows of peanuts. OK-8573.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of a close up view of Sorghum Almum. This picture shows the stooling from one plant.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of side oat gama on seed increase plot at Canton Lake, planted in 1949. OK-98-7.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of native grass planting. This 7-acre seeding of Caucasian bluestem was planted in rows in 1951 on soil IV-12. Mr. Graden Tester is an Soil and Conservation District [SCD] Supervisor. His use of this seeding has been consistent with good management practices. He has no use for a seed increase plot and for winter grazing. Note volunteer seedlings covering the area between the rows. OK-298-1.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of switch grass on seed increase plot at Canton Lake. Planted in 1949. OK-98-8.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of switch grass in west field of seed increase plots. Planted in 1949. OK-98-10.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].
- Photograph of crop residue utilization. Earl Judge, left, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC] & Soil Conservation District [SCD]-65, and D. G. Craig, Agronomist, Great Plains States, checking prospects for a good wheat yield. Mr. Jude Matli, an SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent soil loss from his 70 soil by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weed and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-7.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of Widney Farm. Upland alfalfa for soil management. Earl Judge (right) discusses the advantage of alfalfa on upland for soil building and cover. Mr. Widney uses alfalfa in his conservation crop rotation. This was seeded in the fall of 1952. For a nurse crop, ½ bushel of wheat per acre cross-drilled in wide-spaced rows (every other row drilled). Wheat realized 20 bushels per acre. The utilization of alfalfa has been a spring hay crop, seed crop in the summer, and fall pasture. He has another planting of alfalfa to be in a 3-year rotation. He has been a soil conservation district cooperator since 1948. OK-279-10.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of the Malti farm. Native grass. A native grass planting on soil group 12, land capability Class III. Original planting made in the spring of 1956, over seeding was done in the spring of 1957. OK-567-7.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of agronomy-sorghum almum. Sorghum Almumon sandy soil, group 12, planted in 40 inch rows, planted in April. OK-567-3.
- Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
- Photograph of road damage from flooding. This was a good section-line farm road at 4 pm, June 22, 1948. 8 hours later, after a 16 to 20 inch downpour, it looked like this. The road led to the farmsteads of Terry G. McCarty and his neighbor, Joe Payon [sp?]. OK-9651.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Cattle grazing on weeping lovegrass that was seeded in the spring of 1955. A seed crop was taken in 1957 then the grass was cut for hay in July 1957. This growth that is on the ground now, was produced since the hay crop was removed. OK-567-10.
- Section Line Road and Concrete Structure Swept Away By 16-20 Inch Rain
- Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a deep washout where a section line road and concreate culvert was swept away by 16-20-inch rain on June 22. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Section line road running north from Hydro washed out in, concrete culvert completely disappearing. Many farm families had to go miles out of way to reach town. Extent of washout indicated by size of Soil Conservation Service technician. Estimate repair cost: $3,000."
- Bonnie Tice Harvesting Weeping Lovegrass
- Photograph of Bonnie Tice on a John Deer combine harvesting weeping lovegrass on 90 acre planting. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bonnie Tice harvesting weeping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by being pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per core. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs. of seed from the 90 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately 69 head of cattle are being pastured."
- Aerial Shot of Strait Row Cultivated Field in W. K. Y. Watershed
- Photograph of "Aerial view of field planted in straight rows, that is to be terraced, contour tilled and operated under a system of conservation crop rotation. Gullied natural draw (left of center) will be sloped, sodded and protected by a diversion terrace." A UNIDENTIFED town is in the background and Lawson farmstead is on right side of mentioned field.
- Aerial Shot of Deep Gully in Natural Draw in W. K. Y. Watershed
- Photograph of an aerial shot of "Deep gully in natural draw in pasture that is to be controlled by water diversion, sloping and soddinf [sic]. See Okla-9112, 9113, and 9114."
- U. S. Gypsum Plant
- Photograph of the U. S. Gypsum plant in Southard, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "U. S. Gypsum plant located in the Blaine County SCD. Agricultural gypsum is processed a this plant which is used to neutralize alkali spots and also used as a base for mixed fertilizers."
- U. S. Gypsum Plant
- Photograph of the U. S. Gypsum plant in Southard, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "U. S. Gypsum plant located in the Blaine County SCD. Agricultural gypsum is processed a this plant which is used to neutralize alkali spots and also used as a base for mixed fertilizers."
- Harvesting Grasses From 70 Acre Old Cultivated Field on the John Briscoe Ranch
- Photograph of Part of seventy-acre old cultivated field retired & planted on the John Briscoe Ranch. Curtis Hudson, Cooperator and on the tractor, and his brother Dillard seen harvesting the little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and Blue grama grasses in this field. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Curtis Hudson, 2. Dillard Hudson. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Part of 70 acre old cultivated field retired & planted to little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and Blue grama grasses about the 1st of March 1945. Mixture was seeded at rate of about 12# per acre. This 10 acres was seeded for permanent pasture on clean cotton land. Yield is estimated to be 30 to 35# combined material per ac. Briscoe retired 135 acres last year on this farm & 65 acres on another farm he owns. Next year he plans to plant 20 additional acres of bluestem on a field now in rye & vetch. Driving the tractor is Curtis Hudson, cooperator, 1 mi. east of Geary, while his brother Dillard, rides the combine."
- Harvesting Wheat
- Photograph of harvesting wheat. Branch of Land Operations B.I.A.
- Gypsum Plant
- Photograph of U.S. Gypsum plant located in the Blain County SCD. Agricultural gypsum is processed at this plant which is used to neutalize alkali spots and also used as a base for mixed fertilizers
- Weaping Lovegrass Harvest
- Photograph of Bennie Tice harvesting weaping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by beng pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per acre. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs of seed from the 50 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately 60 head of cattle are being pastured.
- Farming Equipment and Methods--Sorghum Almum
- Photograph of a close-up view of Sorghum Almum showing root system. This planting was made in MAY, 1957. OK-567-5.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of King Ranch Bluestem on seed plot at the Canton Lake Area. Planted n 1949. OK-98-9.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of sideoat grama planted on the contour to take the place of terraces and break up the concentration of water between upland and bottom. OK-98-5.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of King Ranch bluestem on a seed plot at the Canton Lake area. Planted in 1949.
- Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
- Photograph of a former gullied area in a natural drain running through a cultivated field. The gully has been plowed in, banks leveled and with the field terraced. Note the terrace fills (in the background) where terraces cross the drain. The old gully was approximately 4 feet deep and could not be crossed with tillage implements. The field will be contour cultivated and a conservation crop rotation will be followed. Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, in the photo. Camera station # 7. In cultivated field at the south bank of the gully, looking north, 20 feet north of the idle land area. OK-9047-9[?].