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Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flooding. Looking south on the highway toward Driftwood Creek (channel is among the distant trees) on the morning after receiving 4 inches of rain. Considerable damage was done to ripening wheat crop. Farmers in this watershed have made early planning steps for initiating a watershed program on this creek through the Soil Conservation Service. OK-1724-10.
Date: May 31, 1962
Creator: Grover, Edward S.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a flood, Waggoner farm, near Driftwood, OK. Looking across the creel channel and adjacent overflowed land from bridge approach on OK Hwy 58 on the morning after receiving a 4 inch rain. Considerable damage was done to the ripening wheat crop. Farmers in this watershed have made early planning steps for instituting a watershed program on this creek through the Soil Conservation Service. OK-1724-8
Date: May 31, 1962
Creator: Grover, Howard S.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Cherokee Experiment Station, Cherokee, OK. HQ shown in the background. More than 300 farmers and agricultural workers at the Field day, May 24 (1962). Two treatments are applied to wheat as shown in the foreground. Average yields of wheat "cleaned" tilled continuous wheat without nitrogen is 41.2 bushels per acre. Stubble mulched continuous wheat with 40 pounds. Nitrogen is 45.4 bushels per acre. OK-1724-1.
Date: May 24, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cherokee Experiment Station Cropping Systems

Description: Photograph of various cropping systems at the Cherokee Experiment Station. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cropping systems. (A). Caddo Switchgrass 3 year, rotated with 3 years wheat, the wheat yield average 39.9 bu. per acre. (B) Compared to 3 years alfalfa rotated with 3 year wheat, the wheat yields averaged 46.6 bu. per acre. (C) Continuous wheat No. N/A equals 33.5 by per ac. (D). Continuous wheat 40 lb. N/A equals 46.6 bu. per acre. Three years Caddo Switch is only beginning to have… more
Date: May 24, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulching equipment, here a rod weeder, as one of the two tools necessary to do the right kind of job when stubble mulching. OK-958-7.
Date: May 9, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulching Ewuipment

Description: Photograph of Rod Weeder, one of two tools necessary to do the right kind of job of stubble mulching.
Date: May 9, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1239.0218]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dixie Shaw of Burlington"
Date: May 29, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1011.0239]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Miguel Martinez brushes a wild mustang as part of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and James Crabtree Correctional Center officials training program.."
Date: May 17, 1991
Creator: McNutt, Michael
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0507]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dewayne Massengale, lying on his back, is the "victim" in this demonstration of applying a leg splint given during a session of first aid class at Helena State Training School for Boys."
Date: May 18, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0506]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Instructions on preparing an arm splint are given by Cleo Hinchee of the Enid fire department, right, to two members of a first aid class being conducted at the Helena State Training School for Boys."
Date: May 19, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1144.0268]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Salt Plains - Alfalfa County"
Date: May 16, 1941
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0506]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scattered debris is all that remains of the Reed mobile home. The five children of the Reed family in Jet, Okla., were recuperating Tuesday, two of them in an Enid hospital, from injuries sustained in a tornado Monday night. A little more than a month ago, the children were hospitalized as a result of a school bus / auto accident. The parents are the Leon Reeds."
Date: May 1, 1973
Creator: Artman, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1144.0266]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Salt Plains-Alfalfa County 2 miles from Cherokee"
Date: May 3, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1249.0409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ben Smith, 68, a Cherokee Indian interpreter, opertes an employment office for members of his tribe on the Delaware county reservation."
Date: May 1, 1951
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0388.0592]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 2, 1986
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0079]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: May 22, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0473]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Looking upstream through the spillway."
Date: May 28, 1941
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0470]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The upper or flood control wier (dam) in the Salt Plains Lake Spillway."
Date: May 23, 1941
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0589]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crash Crew workers and volunteers view the wreckage of a B-25 Vance air force base training bomber, which crashed Tuesday afternoon 11 miles south of Cherokee."
Date: May 22, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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