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[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0516]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Quonset type building erected at a cost of 6,600 is the only permanent fair structure owned by the Geary chamber of commerce."
Date: September 3, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0276.0484]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Getting small ferris wheel ready for fair (left) are Verlin Long, left, and Gene Lash, president of the Hydro fair association."
Date: July 30, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Bonnie Tice Harvesting Weeping Lovegrass

Description: Photograph of Bonnie Tice on a John Deer combine harvesting weeping lovegrass on 90 acre planting. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bonnie Tice harvesting weeping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by being pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per core. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959… more
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: Judge, E. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Weaping Lovegrass Harvest

Description: Photograph of Bennie Tice harvesting weaping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by beng pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per acre. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs of seed from the 50 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately… more
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0131]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the youth division of the Okeene Whea Esta Tuesday were Oscar John, left, who won second , and Dan Dout, who was first, on their seed samples."
Date: September 13, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0330]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This bustling little town of 800 is bringing its community-owned cranial out of mothballs in preparation for Hydro's annual district free fair."
Date: July 30, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Flumed Out Gully

Description: Photograph of a flumed out gully, which will be sodded and used in a waterway later. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Gully Control. See Ok-724-5 for before pasture. This is after gully has been flumed out to be sodded and used in a waterway at a later date."
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully Erosion Near Eagle City

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a gully, which will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass to control gully erosion and protect the endangered cropland. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Gully Erosion. Gully that is endangering cropland. This gully will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass in order to get water to the base grade and control the gully. See Ok-724-5 for view farther up the gully.”
Date: July 9, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass. Lee Awtrey, Work Unit Conservationist {WUC] Elza Bullen of the Central North Canadian Soil Conservation District [SCD], and Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration [FHA], observing the growth of the native grass in pasture that had been chemically treated to kill blackjack growth. OK-703-10.
Date: July 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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