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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

Conservation Planning

Description: Photograph of the Conservation Tillage Jamboree, Enid Oklahoma. Showing Edward Rohrer recalling personal experience as a wheat farmer concerning conservation tillage. OK-2826-5.
Date: July 11, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of bindweed. The control of bindweed with a 2-4-D herbicide (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) showing nearly a perfect kill. Only a few sprigs of bindweed are showing. Sprayed with 2-4-D at the rate of ½ pound per acre once in 1954 and once in 1955. Dorsay Sparkman is in this picture. OK-341-1.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: Engelman, Jack E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of raking three windrows at one time behind combine preceeding baleing. This operation follows immediately after combining. The type of baler used requires a large windrow for efficient operation. This land is also used for pasture. The cattle were taken off on May 10 to allow time for the clover seed to mature. 40 pounds of cleaned seed per acre were harvested from this land.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of a wind rower attachment to mower to windrow mixture of yellow hop clover, bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza so seed in yellow hop clover can be combined with pick-up attachment on combine. Windrower turns swath gently with minimum loss of seed. Note how bottom end of stems are turned out holding leaves unside for ideal curing of hay. Windrower and pick-up attachment on combine permit drying efficently and harvesting for seed. Ater combining of seed, grass and clover will be baled f… more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Development

Description: Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Henry, Andy, and Phillip Roye, sons of owner, operating machine. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shallow Range Site

Description: Photograph of the Shallow Range Site. Clumps of bushes are wild plum, and skunkbrush sumac. Dominant grasses are sideoats grama and hairy grama, tall dropseed, little bluestem, with big bluestem and Indiangrass in deeper soil pockets. Legumes are sensitive briar, yellow neptunia, prairie clover, dalea. Other forbs (sp) are western ragweed and broomweed. Other woody plants are prickley pear and other cactus.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Residue Utilization

Description: Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.
Date: July 11, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of grassland Utilization. Baling Bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza for the hay following combining of big yellow hop clover seed. The hay yield was 35 bales per acre and the seed yield was 40 pounds per acre. This field is also used as pasture. The cattle were taken off the field on May 10, 1956 to allow time for grass and lespedeza growth for hay and for the seed to mature for combining. Cattle were placed on this immediately after this harvest. OK-334-5.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Plastic Pipe with Sleeve Turnouts Irrigating a Field

Description: Photograph of a close up view of a plastic pipe with sleeve turnouts irrigating a field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Irrigation. Irrigating by using plastic pipe with sleeve turnouts. Note sacks at outlet to prevent erosion. Flow of water through outlets is controlled by use of clothes pins. The SCS recommends this method of water distribution by either surface or underground pipes."
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: Woodward, Grant
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

Strip Pit Spoils Covered in Kudzu

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men standing next to a strip pit spoils covered in Kudzu. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Kudzu growing on strip pit spoils. Clay subsoil, soil unit 6. Unfit for use except as wildlife habitat. Planned and supervised by SCS technicians."
Date: July 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Spoils Bank Remaining After Strip Mining of Coal

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a spoils banks remaining after strip mining of coal. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Spoils banks remaining after strip mining of coal. These banks were sodded to Bermuda grass (costal) in 1955. Land is useless until vegetated. It will offer some grazing when the grass is established. No fertilizer had been used to get this growth. Area in background is unvegetated. With stored water in pits formed when excavating coal, water for irrigation ma… more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Leveled Coal Strip Mining Spoil Banks

Description: Photograph of a former coal strip mining spoil banks leveled with a dozer. The area will be sodded to coastal Bermudagrass and used for future grazing, but the process will take some time as well as the risk of soil compaction hampering growth. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Leveled spoil banks after strip mining of coal. This area was leveled with a dozer and will be sodded to coastal Bermuda grass. Vegetation will be slow in this area as the soil is not fertile and lacks top soil and … more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Weeping Lovegrass at One Year

Description: Photograph of 60 acres of one year old planting of weeping lovegrass on 6w soil-Class 7 - in Bayou Watershed. Korean lespedenza has been overseeded and is up to a good stand. Kenneth B. Blan, Student Trainee, with SCS, in photo.
Date: July 11, 1959
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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