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Pasture Management

Description: Photograph of Fescue-Ladino mixture on soil unit 4. Fescue crowded out by clover, resulting in danger of bloat. Cooperator and SCS technicians agreed on method of planting clover width of drill, leaving strips of fescue with no competition from the clover. This pasture was drown out in the May flods.
Date: May 17, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Unit 4 Overflow Land

Description: Photograph of soil unit 4 overflow land cleared of timber and seeded to mixture of Kentucky 31 and Fescue, Common bermudagrass (seed), Ladino clover and Burr clover. Topdressed with 80 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate per acre.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Alfalfa and Fescue Rotation

Description: Photograph of rotation hay and pasture-alfalfa and fescue established on shallow upland soils through a special ACP practices for soil improvement. Soil Conservation Service determines from soil classification whether fields selected by farmer are commercial alfalfa lands.
Date: September 20, 1958
Creator: Brown, George
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Field

Description: Photograph of a man in tall grass. This picture shows native grass after timber was sprayed in the Spring of 1967. Grass has made a quick recovery and good growth. Grazing was deffered during the growing season to enable native grasses to make growth and produce seed. OK-2904-12.
Date: September 14, 1967
Creator: Price, Neil
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Coal Mining

Description: Photograph of soils, featuring mine pits and dumps in Coal County, Oklahoma. A typical area of the mine pits and dumps mapping unit. (100). OK-3290-10.
Date: December 1968
Creator: Moebius, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock--Dietary and Nutritional Needs

Description: Photograph of range management-uniform grazing. Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians recommended portable salt boxes such as this to be moved frequently to obtain uniform grazing by pulling cattle away from overgrazed areas to areas underutilized. Number 10 of a series. OK-858-12.
Date: July 8, 1959
Creator: Brown, George
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of pasture seeding. Buffalo grass seeded in 1950 on overflow bottom of Clear Boggy Creek. Soil Unit 3ab. This grass shows good possibilities on this type of soil and is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] for these areas. Mr. Krebs and C. T. Forrester, SCS and Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], respectively, in the picture. OK-534-1.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Evans, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of pasture seeding. Showing the length of the stolons on Buffalo grass. Grass planted on overflow bottom of Clear Boggy Creek. Grass is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] for tight soils in overflow area. OK-534-2.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Evans, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Muddy Boggy Creek Flooding on SH 31

Description: Photograph of Muddy Boggy Creek inundating SH-31 for 3 days, halting traffic. Adjacent farm land floods several time yearly, making cropping and pasture hazardous. Application submitted for PL-566 assistance in upstream prevention.
Date: May 20, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Partially Flooded Coalgate Sewage System Near Coalgate

Description: Photograph of a partially inundated Coalgate City Sewer system causing raw sewage to be released and the evacuation of some homes. This photograph was taken from a hill near Coalgate. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Coalgate City Sewer system partially inundated in Caney-Coon Creek floodplain, causing raw sewage to be released. Flood also caused evacuation of some houses. This is a portion of Muddy Boggy Creek Watershed."
Date: May 20, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Management-Weed Control

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED worker on a tractor spraying the field for controlling weeds, native and tame pasture grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture Management-Weed Control. Spray Rig consists of PTO Pump, tractor, barrels and boom costing approximately $250.00 being used to control weeds, native, and tame pasture. This practice highly recommended by the Soil conservation Service technicians, to reduce competition and increase stand of grasses. Native grass infested with rag… more
Date: July 8, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fescue-Ladino Mixture Crowded Out By Clover

Description: Photograph of pasture management consisting of Fescue-Ladino mixture crowded out by clover. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture Management. Fescue-Ladino mixture on soil unit 4. Fescue crowded out by clover, resulting in danger of bloat. Cooperator and SCS technicians agreed on method of planting clover width of drill, leaving strips of fescue with no competition from the clover. This pasture was drown out in the May floods."
Date: May 17, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Close-Up Photograph of Alfalfa and Fescue

Description: Photograph of a close-up photograph of alfalfa and fescue. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rotation Hay & Pasture – Alfalfa and Fescue established on shallow upland soils through a special ACP practice for soil improvement. Soil Conservation Service determines from soil classification whether fields selected by farmer are commercial Alfalfa land."
Date: September 20, 1958
Creator: Brown, George
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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