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Wood Products

Description: Photograph of charcoaled wood from culled hardwoods. Many acres of LeFlore county soils are covered with cull hardwoods. Where the soil is well suited to tame pasture production, many land owners are removing the cull hardwoods in order to establish the area to improve pasture plants. By charcoaling the cull hardwoods a usable product is secured and a help in the cost of pasture development is realized.
Date: February 4, 1966
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearing

Description: Photograph of land clearing. Large trees pushed over with dozers leave holes in the ground. These holes will be filled, brush piles burned, land prepared, and cleared area seeded to fescue. Joe Qualls, left; A.D. McKenzie
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

County Road Blocked by Flooding

Description: Photograph of a county road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms effected by water as seen in photograph. Individual farmer can't do anything successfully about draining his land unless a master drainage plan is developed. Group drainage is needed. Soil units 9 and 15.
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hereford Cattle Grazing

Description: Photograph of Hereford cattle grazing fescue and ladino clover. Mr. Addison regularly consults with SCS Technicians on land treatment needs on his pasture and woodland.
Date: September 20, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cattle Grazing Fescue and Ladino

Description: Photograph of Hereford cattle grazing fescue and ladino clover. Mr. Addison regularly consults with SCS Technicians on land treatment needs on his pasture and woodland.
Date: September 20, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Two Row Bermuda Sprigger

Description: Photograph of loading fertilizer into fertilizer box on two-row Bermuda sprigger. Landowner is applying fertilizer as per SCS technician's recommendations for soil conserving grass pasture. This cooperator understands the need for proper plant food for establishment of the grass.
Date: July 13, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Combining Soybeans

Description: Photograph of combining soybeans on Arkansas river bottom soil. Such heavy soils often need drainage. SCS technicians stake drainage where needed on lands of district cooperators. These beans will make 40 bushels per acre.
Date: October 16, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose as a Fence (2)

Description: Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Short Leaf Pine Planting

Description: Photograph of a five acre short leaf pine planting made in 1950 from planting stock brought from Missouri. This is the best plantation in the Talihina Soil Conservation District. Cecil Keylon, SCS, checking progress of the trees. Plantation was made in an old cultivated field.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose (2)

Description: Photograph of multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Robert S. Kerr near Coaldale

Description: Photograph of strip dump as being developed into a very good wildlife area. The locust on the spoil pile and the fish in the pit area. Senator Kerr is rapidly carrying out the plan he and SCS technicians determined best for his soil. OK-1382-8.
Date: July 3, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] manager getting Greenfield Bermuda grass roots for springging. The District makes equipment available to do conservation for which there is not equipment available from other sources. OK-1382-1.
Date: July 30, 1961
Creator: Costner, Andrew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Tree Diseases

Description: Photograph of a crooked pine tree with little commercial value. Note crooks and limb condition. OK-1494-7.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemeul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the planting of pine seedlings. Joe Johnson is planting pine seedlings with new type of planting bar. Joe not only talks it--he does it. Joe planted 10,000 trees during the 1958-1959 planting season. Joe and jack Johnson, "Mr. Oklahoma Tree Farmers" of 1960, have encouraged many land owners to plant trees. OK-795-11.
Date: November 21, 1958
Creator: Turney, Douglas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of tree planting. Jim Thompson, Le Flore County Soil Conservation District [SCD] employee, planting Black Locust trees with dibble bar. Bill Mccain, left, Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Department, furnished plantings for wildlife cover. Parks Harlan constructed the fences and furrowed the rows. OK-1072-11.
Date: February 1, 1960
Creator: Turney, Douglas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of loading fertilizer into a fertilizer box on a two-row Bermuda grass sprigger. Landowner is applying fertilizer as per Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician's recommendation for soil conserving grass pasture. This cooperator understands the need for proper plant food for the establishment of the grass. OK-1361-6.
Date: July 13, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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