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Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a specially-constructed grader made from an old road maintainer. It has no front wheels and hitches to the tractor for frontal support. The grader and tractor are equipped with lights and is now working three eight-hour shifts a day. The graderfixed up in this way is very efficient. OK-5167.
Date: May 4, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of contour furrows in pasture land in order to control and preserve water as precipitation falls. Results have proven that this is one way to develop a good pasture. OK-5011.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of wind carrying silt on a clean, cultivated field. Notice how the wind picks up the soil and carries it higher the farther it goes. Also notice that the soil is not picked up until the wind has a chance to gather momentum close to the ground. The soil in the foreground is not being carried as the end of the field is near, and the fence and vagetation act as a windbreak. This wind erosion is aserious problem in western Oklahoma, Kansas and Southwestern Nebraska. OK-5123.
Date: March 6, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of a break in newly constructed terrace showing overfall which developed above it from water coming down from breaks in higher terraces. The break here is at a fill which was not built high enough. Photo was taken shortly after a quick 6-inch rain. OK-5169.
Date: May 4, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

S. F. Nixon

Description: Photograph of S. F. Nixon next to an eight foot overfall at the lower end of a terrace outlet channel.
Date: October 9, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton and Alfalfa Growing on the Marion Bryan Farm/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of cotton rows growing on the contour on the side of the hill, while alfalfa grows at the bottom of the slope on the Marion Bryant Farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, “The cotton rows are on the contour on the side of the hill, while the alfalfa is at the bottom of the slope. In former years when the cotton was farmed in straight rows up the slope, there was a great deal of washing in the sandy soil of the cotton field and the silt was deposited in the alfalfa, threatening to… more
Date: October 9, 1936
Creator: Howard, Ivy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a view of a broken dam from the downstream side. A six inch rain in one night caused the dam to overtop its entire length and finally break. Notice the huge pieces of concrete from the core wall. As facing the wall, they were carried down by water. A large bridge washed through this break. This dam and resevoir, which cost $350,000, silted in 48% in nine years and was soon to be abandoned because its storage capacity was reduced too much for it to be relied upon for the city water… more
Date: May 5, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of severe sheet and slight gully erosion on an unterraced field after a heavy rain. Notice how all the soil which has been loosened by the plow was taken out of the channel at the bottom of the drainage, and how the small gullies in general followed the direction of the lister plow furrows up and down the slope. OK-5154.
Date: May 3, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a specially-constructed grader made from an old road maintainer. This grader has no front wheels and hitches directly to the tractor for frontal support. The grader fixed up in this way is very efficient. The grader and tractor are equipped with electric lights for night work and is being run three eight-hour shifts a day. OK-5166.
Date: May 4, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Elk City, OK

Description: Photograph of a diesel tractor converted for night work in the Elk City, OK area. Photo by Jim Slack, USDA Soil Conservation Service, March 1936.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

S. F. Nixon Farm

Description: Photograph of a tractor pulled grader converted from a road maintainer at the S. F. Nixon Farm near Elk City, OK. Photo by Hufnagle, USDA Soil Conservation Service, May 4, 1936.
Date: May 4, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

V-Shaped Patch of Sown Cane on the B.A. Howard Farm/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of a V-shaped patch of sown cane on the B. A. Howard farm, which is used to eliminate any point rows in the field of cotton, which is contoured. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This is a V-shaped patch of sown cane, which is used to eliminate any point rows in the field of cotton, which is contoured. Irregular strips and points such as this one are easily handled by planting them to some sown crop, which can be used for forage or hay. This enables the farmer to use all the lan… more
Date: October 9, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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