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[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0433]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Christmas Tree is first of its kind in Oklahoma and stands as a marker at the state's first quadruple-producer, Gill Oil No. 2 McAfee, on the northwest flank of the Healdton Field, in Jefferson County."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1122.0392]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. J. Redford, vocational agriculture instructor at Waurika High School, is watching every step of construction on the $25,000 building being erected for his department."
A Heavily Grazed Pasture
Photograph of a heavily grazed pasture, note poor calves and frequent dung piles.
Tepee Type Exclosure
Photograph of a tepee style exclosure to be used for yield data and to help ranchers determine degree of use. Teepee's cost approximately $10 not including labor.
Elbon Rye Being Harvested
Photograph of Elbon rye being harvested. Rye was planted for cover crop and pasture. Good seed crop was harvested. Approximately 30 bushels per acre.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-12. Native grass seeding on complex. OK-1467-2.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of land clearance and shrub control. Follow-up of OK-1002-3. Land cleared with a saw and later sprayed. OK-1467-7.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of land clearance and brush control. Follow up of 1002-2. Brush sprayed with 2-4-5T herbicide in 1954. OK-1467-6.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass land near Ryan, Oklahoma. A typical landscape. Deep sand range site, fair condition, Minco fine sandy loam soil type. Principal forage species are little bluestem, sideoats grama, tall dropseed, Scribner’s panicum. Non forage plants are sandage, gaura, spp. [Latin = species pluralis: “multiple species”], doze-daisy; yucca-woody species are sand plum and prickly ash. OK-1466-1.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-9. Native grass seeding made in 1954. This is the first year out of a CR [cost reimbursement] contract. OK-1466-11.
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species are green briar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash, and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalo grass, tumble love grass, tall drop seed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats grama and little bluestem. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photographic follow-up of OK-1002-7. Timber cleared in 1951, sprayed in 1959. OK-1467-8.
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a root plow in operation in a mesquite thicket. Area sprayed previously, it appeared that most trees were dead but sprouted back. Present trees are from old sprouts. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. The principle grass is buffalograss. OK-1407-7.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a close-up of mesquite roots showing a bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow. OK-1407-8.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of hybrid field corn growing on Minco silt loam soil type nearly level Class I land. For use in Jefferson County Soil Survey Report. OK-1466-3.
Wheat Following Alfalfa on Bottom Land
Photograph of wheat following alfalfa on bottom land. Note heavy straw. Yield approximaely 40 bushels per acre. Residue to be left on top not plowed.
Wheat Following Alfalfa
Photograph of wheat following alfalfa on bottom land. Note heavy straw. Yield approximaely 40 bushels per acre. Residue to be left on top not plowed.
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of a gully before shaping. Camera directed east with follow up shot to be taken. OK-1290-8.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of more brush control. A follow-up of OK-1002-1. Brush sprayed in May 1957 with 2-4-5T herbicide. OK-1467-5.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1001-2. Native grass seeding on claypan. OK-1467-2. OK-1467-4.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of native grass planting on 5-B soil [sic; Type B?] in 1957. Shows slick spot where the vegetation failed to survive.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of of grasses. Follow-up of OK-1000-4. Native grass mixture seeded in the spring of 1957. OK-1466-10.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass plantings. Follow-up of OK-487-10. Native grass plantings of 1957. OK-1467-3.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a close-up of mesquite roots showing bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow. OK-1407-8.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of land clearance. Follow-up of OK-1002-7. Timber cleared in 1951 and sprayed in 1959. OK-1467-8.
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a root plow in operation in a mesquite thicket. Area sprayed previously. It appeared that most of the trees were dead but sprouted back. Present trees are from old sprouts. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. Principle grass: buffalo grass. OK-1407-7.
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grasses. Little bluestem in phytometer,* clipped at 3 different levels weekly during growing season. OK-1466-7. * a device that measures a plant’s transpiration (i.e., water movement through the plant including evaporation from its aerial parts) by placing it in a sealed soil-containing vessel so that water can escape only through the plant’s transpiration.
Exclosure Fence
Photograph of an exclosure fence at the end of growing season on Red Clay Prairie site.
Pecan Development on Beaver Creek
Photograph of a Pecan development on Beaver Creek. Note dense stand of timber in background where clearing has not taken place. Grass is beginning to improve.
Brush Control
Photograph of brush control, this strip, 150 feet wide and one half mile long, sprayed in 1959 and again in 1960.
Mesquite Roots Showing Bud Zone
Photograph of a close up of mesquite roots showing the bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow.
Brush Sprayed
Photograph of a follow up of OK-1002-1. Brush sprayed in May 1957 with 2-4-5-T.
Native Grass Planting
Photograph of native grass planting.
Hybrid Field Corn
Photograph of hybrid field corn growing on Minco silt loam soil type nearly level Class I land. For use in Jeferson County Soil Survey Report.
Native Grass Seeding
Photograph of native grass seeding.
Root Plow in Action
Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species green briar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalo grass, tumblelove grass, tall dropseed, small amounts of switchgrass, sideoats grama and little bluestem. Plow cutting from 8 to 10 inches deep.
Root Plow in Operation
Photograph of a root plow in operation in mesquite thicket. Area sprayed previously, it appeared that most trees were dead but sprouted back. Present trees are from old sprouts. Plow cuts from 8 to 10 inches deep. Principal grass: buffalograss.
Wheat Following Alfafla
Photograph of wheat following alfalfa on bottom land. Note heavy straw. Yield approximaely 40 bushels per acre. Residue to be left on top not plowed.
Little Bluestem in Phytometer
Photograph of little bluestem in phytometer, clipped at 3 different levels weekly during growing season.
Little Bluestem in Phytometers
Photograph of Little Bluestem in phytometers, clipped at 3 diffeent levels weekly during growing season.
Native Grass Planting 1957
Photograph of native grass planting in 1957. This is a follow up photo of OK-487-10.
Timber Clearing
Photograph of timber cleared in 1951 and sprayed in 1959.
Native Grass Seeding Made 1951
Photograph of a native grass seeding made in 1951. This is the first year out of CR contract.
Overuse on Red Clay Prairie Range Site
Photograph of land overuse on Red Clay Prairie Range Site. Note erosion, cactus and mesquite.
Native Grasss on Slick Spot Follow Up
Photograph of native grass on slick spot. Follow up of OK-1002-8.
Test Plot for Spraying
Photograph of pasture spraying test plot. Area on right sprayed with 1 lb. low vol-ester in 3 gallon of water, area on left not sprayed.
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species include greenbriar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalograss, tumblelove grass, tall dropseed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats gama, and little blue stem. Plow cutting from 8 to 10 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a four inch square sod to placed in a phytometer. OK-1466-8.
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species include greenbriar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalograss, tumblelove grass, tall dropseed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats gama, and little bluestem. Plow cutting from 8 to 10 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Native Grass Seeding on Complex
Photograph of native grass seeding on complex.
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