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Closed Terraces

Description: Photograph of channel type terraces constructed in 1951. These are closed terraces. Note the water held by the terraces on the morning after 2 inch rain and hail storm with a small tornado. This field has been placed in the Acreage Reserve program. This land will be summer fallowed and will be drilled to wheat for the fall of 1958.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Caddo Switch Grass

Description: Photograph of irrigated Caddo Switchgrass planted for seed production. This is a selection out of native switch grass. It is excellent for hay, pasture and seed production.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 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 the Culton boys at well in which the water level has risen 6 to 8 feet in the last two years since terraces were built and contour farming has been practiced. OK-5296.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of harvest cutting. It takes good logs to make good homes. To keep this mill operating continuously the Stauter Lumber Company buys logs from the McCurtain County Land Utilization [LU] Project formerly administered by the Soil Conservation Service. Increased timber volume enabled this mill to employ 85 people where none worked before. OK-315-12.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Walter Gray Farm Corn Field Flood Damage

Description: Photograph of Mr. Gray and Harry Maricle standing in cornfield following flood. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Harry Maricle, 2. Mr. Gray. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Corn crop following flood. Best growing season in 51 years followed flood, Mr. Gray said. That's reason crop will be better than expected. He lost one cutting of alfalfa because of flood. 290 acres of corn hurt. Should make 75 bushels to acre in some parts of field. Has spent $500 poisoning … more
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Four UNIDENTIFIED Men Discussing The Benefits of Contour Farming and Crop Rotation/Muskogee District/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED men standing in a contoured field on the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "SCS Personal explaining contour farming and crop rotation to a colored cooperator."
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member

Description: Photograph of H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member, riding a horse. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Board Member since 1939. Old time cowboy and stockman. Saw first train to Idabel. Attends state and national soil conservation meetings regularly. Ate a rare steak in Omaha but remarked "I've had 'em get well hurt nor worse than this." Walker lives alone except for horse and sheep and cattle."
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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