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Cover Crops

Description: Photograph of Lee Brown, operator, is plowing under mature cover of rye after it has been grazed about 5 months by livestock. Knie uses this field, approximately 100 acres of Class I, II, and III land, exclusively for grazing. He says the cattle gained about 2 lbs. per day and this utilization of the land produces considerable more than harvest crops by machine.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita County Soil Conservation District Surplus Wheat

Description: Photograph of a 1958 surplus wheat crop from the Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators to hold and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. An UNIDENTIFIED individual is using a tractor to push the wheat. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bountiful crop of 1958 in Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. This entire crop was produced from land where good… more
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cordell Wheat Harvest and Elevator

Description: Photograph of a line of trucks waiting to unload their wheat payload into an elevator located in Cordell. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wheat harvest. Wheat trucking waiting to be unloaded into Cordell elevator. Wheat yields have been good in county since adoption of conservation practices such as terraces, waterways, legume rotation, and crop residue management."
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Legume Rotation

Description: Photograph of Austrian winter peas growing in rotation with small grain. Nelson has been cooperating with the Washita County Soil Conservation District for several years. He stands between wheat and Austrian peas.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of surplus wheat. Bountiful crop of 1958 in the Washita Soil Conservation District was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. All this crop was produced from land where good soil conservation practices are carried out. OK-708-5.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of brush control. Eldred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District [SCD] co-operator, makes a first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infested pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed and the grass left. OK-705-10.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of Kidred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District cooperator, makes the first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infected pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed with grass left. OK-705-10.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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