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Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Here he checks it for proper adjustment as recording starts. Picture # 5 of a series. TX-46, 266-E.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The floats are being placed within the rings. Picture # 2 in a series. TX-46, 266-B.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The device is completely set up. The recorder is on the left. The water supply drum is on the right. Rings, floats and water on the lower right. Picture # 4 in a series. TX-46, 266-D.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of roots, leaves and seed heads of red plantains {USDA: redseed plantains*], one of several small plants called tallow weed. TX-46, 888. *https://plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_plrh.pdf
Date: July 1, 1950
Creator: Hart, James
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of clipped bluestem plot, the same as in TX-43, 229-A. Average forage yield of this and 9 other plots was 5,567 pounds per acre. Yield of mulch was 1580 pounds per acre. TX-43, 229-B.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of two piles of grass. The large pile is the yield of forage. The small pile is one year’s accumulation of mulch as the area was burned about two years ago. The total forage produced per acre when the amount of this plot was averaged with 10 others was 2500 pounds per acre. The yield of mulch was 750 pounds per acre. TX-43, 228-B.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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