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Alfalfa Being Readied for Baling

Description: Photograph of an 8 year old stand of alfalfa being readied for baling. W. M. McCarty, work unit conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service, holds up some of the mowed alfalfa. This stand received 2 tons of lime per acre when planted and a light application of sheep manure. It yielded 1. 5 tons per ace by the end of the third year. Treated with 300# of 32% raw rock phosphate to the acre then it made good but spotted growth. The fan-type phosphate distributor used was blamed. Later another… more
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Mr. Dickerson Standing in Hairy Vetch

Description: Photograph of E. Dickerson standing in his field of hairy vetch, left, and oats to the right. The field was limed 2 years ago at the rate of 2 tons to the acre and phosphate with 500 pounds of raw rock phosphate.
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of twenty-two combination clean and trashy grass seeding drills for delivery to the Soil Conservation Service for use in Washita Flood Control Program. From left ot right: E. Conrad, Earl K. Lowe, C.E. Bunch, & W.T. Wheeler. OK-9293.
Date: March 24, 1947
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Homes

Description: Photograph of the modern farm home of L.A. Rounds. OK-9485.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Homes

Description: Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver checking farm records in the neat kitchen of their farmstead. Tolliver bought a run-down 40 acre farm that used to scarcely produce 5 bushels of corn per acre. "It had gullies I couldn't cross with implements and the soil would produce practically nothing," Tooliver said. He terraced and contoured the 22 acres he cultivated, rotated his crops and use dhairy vetch for cover and soil improvement. Pasture cleared and mowed. OK-9479.
Date: 1947
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Homes

Description: Photograph of the comfortable Lindsey home. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey stand in front of it. The yard is covered with a good stand of clover. OK-9435.
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of one of 22 combination clean and grassy seeding drills for use in the Washita Flood Control program. Frames were constructed and machines assembled by Chickasha Iron Works. Standing beside the seeder is Mr. A.J. Kennedy, foreman of the job for Iron Works. OK-9299.
Date: March 24, 1947
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the farm of C.L. Miniek of Hedley, Texas. Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation, following cotton with cover crop of Austrian winter peas, yielding three times as much Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation grown on the same type of land without a legume cover crop. Mr. Miniek planted Austrian winter peas as a winter cover crop in the fall of 1946 on that part of the field where the larger Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation is growing. The Austrian winter peas were inoculated and 100 pou… more
Date: 1947
Creator: Rhode, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a close-up detail of individual plants in the excellent composition on normal upland site. The predominantly tall plants, starting at the left, are tall dropseed, a single stalk of sideoats grama, a large clump of little bluestem, and, the plume-like one toward the right, Indian grass. See TX-43, 965A for the percentage composition of the grasses on this site. TX-43, 965B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Corn Cultivated on the Contour

Description: Photograph of young corn cultivated on the contour. The corn field is terraced. It's runoff wateres empty into the shaped sodded terrace outlet in the foreground.
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of twenty-two combination clean and trashy grass seeding drills for delivery to the Soil Conservation Service for use in Washita Flood Control Program. From left ot right: E. Conrad, Earl K. Lowe, C.E. Bunch, & W.T. Wheeler. Frames were constructed and machines assembled by the Chickasha Iron Works. OK-9291.
Date: March 24, 1947
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of M.H. Dougan (left) and Sam Dougan (right) showing their many visitors some of the clovers and lespedezas they have grown on their pastures. M.H. holds a bundle of giant hop clover while his brother has a small hop clover. On the table at the left is black sample clover, at right is Korean lepedeza. All the samples were out in 1946. OK-9322.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of blue panic grass seeded in March, 1947. A seed crop in June yielded 300 to 400 pounds per acre. Another seed crop will be available around November. There has been only 1 ½ inches of rain on this stand since it was cut for seed in June. TX-43, 881.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Description: Photograph of Owen Womack explaining to a group of ranchers what his ranch conservation program is, and what he has done and the results. TX-44, 239.
Date: October 10, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the farm of C.L. Miniek of Hedley, Texas. Cotton following cotton with cover crop of Austrian winter peas yielding three times as much cotton grown on the same type of land without a legume cover crop. Mr. Miniek planted all the peas as a winter cover crop in the fall of 1946 on that part of the field where the longer cotton is growing. The Austrian winter peas were inoculated and 100 pounds of phosphate fertilizer was applied per acre at the time of planting.
Date: 1947
Creator: Rhode, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of close up of grasses [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 968.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of representative erosion damage in this section from a heavy rain, approximate a 1 inch accumulation on May 9, 1947. Silting and washing in this 35 acre cornfield have destroyed conservatively 12 to 18 percent of the corn and cotton crop. Corn and cotton was cultivated up and down rows and dozens of small washes 3 to 25 feet wide have covered the young plants completely with silt. Erosion control methods, properly established, would have reduced the damage to less than 1%. Class II … more
Date: May 9, 1947
Creator: Becton, T. H.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of grasses and other plants [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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