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Checking Wheat

Description: Photograph of SCS Tech. John Bailey checking the seed heads of the wheat in this irrigated 60 acre field. Good tall growth of wheat was attributed to conditioning of the soil with alfalfa for six years. Wggins is to change from flood irrigation to level border. SCS Engineers designed irrigation system. III HP 2.
Date: July 5, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician John Bailey checks the seed heads of the wheat in this irrigated 60-acre field. Good tall growth of the wheat was attributed to conditioning of the soil with alfalfa for six years. Wiggins is to change from flood irrigation to level border. SCS Engineers designed the irrigation system. III HP 2. OK-10, 769.
Date: July 5, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Human Interest, Edward Brewer

Description: Photograph of +Mr. Edward L. Brewer, owner of 6000 acre ranch in Oklahoma panhandle. Mr. Brewer has owned and operated this ranch since 1917. He has seen several dry and wet periods. He went though the "Dirty Thirties" of dust storms. One of the first to sign contract under Great Plains Conservation Program.
Date: July 2, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lost Water from Straight Row Farming

Description: Photograph of lost water from straight row farming on about 2 percent slope section of land. Water was coming from field out into bar ditch in foreground along highway. Photograph was taken during a 1 in. rain.
Date: July 14, 1938
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0207]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Members of Panhandle State College's Museum Club, helping with excavation of a possible elephant skeleton near Guymon, are (left to right) Bernard Cooksey, Goodwell sophomore; Bill Reagan, Texline, Texas, senior, and Gary Doke, Guymon junior."
Date: July 18, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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