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Planting Pines for Wildlife Shelter

Description: Photograph of planting of pines for wildlife shelter. Planted in 1955. Short leaf and ponderosa.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wildlife Planting

Description: Photograph of wildlife planting of multi-flora rose, 1st year. Fertilized at time of planting with 80 lbs. of 10-20-10 per 1/2 mi.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Black Locust Tree Planting

Description: Photograph of Black Locust plot planted in 1960.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wildlife Planting

Description: Photograph of first year of multi-flora rose. Fertilized at time of planting with 80 lbs. of 10-20-10 per 1/3 mi.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bees

Description: Photograph of Claude Webb proudly displayes a few of the live bees from the 70 bee hives on his farm. Bees are the most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, K.C. Bennett, SCS technician, says to get more and better returns from legumes in a planned soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold $500.00 worth of honey last year.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Live Bees

Description: Photograph of Claude Webb proudly displaying a few of the live bees from the 70 bee hives on his farm. Bees are the most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, K.C. Bennett, SCS technician, says to ge more and better returns from legumes in a planted soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold $500.00 worth of honey last year.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bees

Description: Photograph of Claude Webb proudly displaying a few of the live bees from the 70 bee hives on his farm. Bees are the most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, K.C. Bennett, SCS technician, says to get more and better returns from legumes in a planned soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold $500.00 worth of honey last year.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Agronomy, Maize

Description: Photograph of Gerald Chambers, FFA Instructor and K.C. Bennett, SCS examine maize in Ottawa County.
Date: August 6, 1972
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fishing on Grand Lake

Description: Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Norman Richardson casting for large mouth bass in one of Grand Lakes many coves provides soul-satisfying recreation to thousands of fishermen annually. The wildlife Department restocks the lake as needed.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Tree Planting Black Locust

Description: Photograph of tree planting, the first year for black locust. Planted in 1960.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Newly Constructed Stock Pond

Description: Photograph of a newly constructed stock pond.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Timber Harvesting

Description: Photograph of Black Locust cut for fence post. Harvested off of Mr. Joe Johnson farm.
Date: October 25, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Vetch and Rye Plowed Under for Green Manure (2)

Description: Photograph of vetch and rye plowed under for green manure. Shown in picture, Left to Right, K. C. Bennett, WUC, Clyde Brown, district cooperator, and Elmo Goss, neighbor, Howard Rutledge, Vocational Agricultural Instructor, Fairland.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Vetch and Rye Plowed Under

Description: Photograph of vetch and rye plowed under for green manure. Shown in picture, Left to Right, K.C. Bennett, WUC, Clyde Brown, district cooperator, and Elmo Goss, neighbor, Howard Rutledge, Vocational Agricultural Instuctor, Fairland.
Date: July 20, 1952
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north in Field no. 1. Native grass plantings seeded into prairie hay mulch. View, and Raymond Magness, is near the center of the plot. OK-2879-15.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat and Clover Rotation

Description: Photograph of Armin Groeneman, district cooperator, and WUC, K.C. Bennett, in field of wheat on the Groeneman farm where sweet clover is used in crop rotation. Wheat is fertilized with 125 pounds of 5-20-20 and 100 pounds of 0-20-0 per acre. Groeneman is a firm believer in the value of sweet clover as a soil builder.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bees

Description: Photograph of Claude Webb, and K.C. Bennett, SCS Representative, proudly display a few bees from the 70 bee hives on the Webb farm. Bees are a most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, according to K.C. Bennet, to get more and better returns from legumes in a planned soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold around $500.00 worth of honey last year.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Extensive Growth of Vetch

Description: Photograph of left to right, Henery Heman, District cooperator, WUC, SCS K.C. Bennett, and Bart Brewster, neighbor. Brewster is shown admiring the extensive growth of vetch on the Heman farm, while Heman proudly looks on. The vetch is a common occurance now in Ottawa County with approxomately 60,000 acres grown annually. The vetch was practically not known before the beginning of the district in 1946.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Weeping Lovegrass broadcast seeded on 3-20-67 on blow drigt along snow fence north end of fields 1, 2, 3. Broadcast fertilized 400 pounds 10-20-10 per year at planting time. West end (foreground) top-dressed 300 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer on 10 August 1976. Overseeded with native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) 3-26-68. OK-3013-9.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north showing the southeast portion of the planting area (Field # 6). Thi sshows the mulched border along the east side of the unmulched tree plantings--this border was not seeded. Observations will be made on seedling establishement from vegetation along the border of the dam immediately south of the site. OK-2767-1.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north. The southeast portion of the plantings area (Field no. 6). This shows the mulched border along the east side of the unmulched tree plantings--this border was not seeded. Observations will be made on seeding establishment from vegetation along the border of the dam immediately south of this site. OK-2767-1.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sweet Clover as Green Manure

Description: Photograph of Armin Groeneman, district cooperator, and neighbor, plowing under a green manure crop of 4 to 6 ton per acre of sweet clover. Land was limed 6 or 7 years ago of 2.5 tons per acre and 500 lbs. of Raw Rock Phosphate per acre. Sweet clover in crop rotation is a common practice on the Groeneman farm. He says it opens the soil and allows better moisture penetration and improves crop yields.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Cover of annual rye drilled 9-25-67 on blow drift area north of fields 1, 2, 3 between snow fences. Fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per year at planting time. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year in February 1968. Broadcast seeded to Big Sandreed (Calamovilfa gigantea) and broadcast fertilized with 400 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year on 3-26-68. Seed and fertilizer not covered. OK-3013-3. more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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