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[Photograph 2012.201.B0255.0510]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mom's cookin' is the order of the day for the 200 Helena school students who are fortunate to have a mother's club which has operated the school cafeteria for more than 14 years."
Date: January 22, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Kochia weed and salt grass on salt area where it is very difficult to get crops started. The problem is this—getting the crops started. Volunteer kochia weed serves as a priority treatment to get a cover on the land. At certain stages cattle graze readily and it supplies a large amount of organic material when plowed down in a seed-bed preparation. OK-745-2.
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a plastic protector for a waterway. State soil Conservationist Earl Rowley and Dan Hamill. Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Weatherford, Oklahoma, demonstrates a plastic cover that can be spread over a Bermuda grass waterway where the slope increase would be a hazard. Water can flow over the plastic preventing erosion. The Bermuda grass receives sunlight through the plastic. Soil moisture loss under the covered area is reduced to a minimum. OK-692-7.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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