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Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of packing shed where strawberries are taken by their pickers. They are paid as they bring the berries to the shed. The berries are packed in crates and are prepared to be shipped to market or the freezing plant. Berris are picked and handled quickly to conserve loss from spoilage. OK-293-6.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the typical sample of strawberry land. This land is mostly rocks and gravel. It will grow strawberries for 3 to 6 years before it should be put into bermudagrass and clovers to conserve the soil from further depletion from erosion and leaching. Strawberries can be grown on this land again in about 20 years. OK-293-7.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fire Damage

Description: Photograph of fire damage. Most fires when started in rural homes, do severe damage. Little chance to save property through fire fighting equipment is available. The best way to save property from fire in rural areas is by the establishment of safety rules which include the removal of fire hazards. Fight fire by avoiding them. OK-294-12.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of strawberries, John Garrrett farm / ranch. Strawberries growing on an extreme slope. This field will run from a 20 to 30% slope but will grow excellent berries. This land was recently cleared of brush and planted to strawberries. Irrigation is used in this field. After 3 – 6 years of strawberries this land will be planted with Bermuda grass. Erosion and leaching will deplete this soil in a few years and the grass is necessary to conserve and improve the soil. The berries can be gro… more
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a farm pond. Farm pond constructed for livestock water and recreation. It has been stocked. The pond has a drainage area of 60 acres, will cover 1.5 surface acres and will store 5 acre feet of water. There are 4173 cubic yards of earth in the fill and it has been sodded with Bermuda grass. The dam was staked and laid out by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-292-12.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of strawberries. Typical example of strawberry land. This land is mostly rocks and gravel. It will grow strawberries for 3 to 6 years before it should put into Bermuda grass and clover to conserve the soil from further depletion from erosion and leaching. Strawberries can be grown on this land again in about 20 years. OK-293-7.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation

Description: Photograph of strawberries. Strawberries growing on an extreme slope. This field will run from 20% to 30% slope but will grow excellent berries. This land was recently cleared of brush and planted to strawberries. Irrigation is used this field. After 3 to 6 years of strawberries, this land will be planted with Bermuda grass. Erosion and leaching will deplete the soil in a few years and the grass conversion is necessary to conserve and improve it. Berries can be grown again in about 20 years. OK… more
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of improved pasture. Beef cattle grazing on the Edds farm of only 40 acres. The catle on this Bermuda grass pasture receive no additional feed or pasture. Mr. Edds used only $150.00 worth of hay for the cattle in the winter of 1955 – 1956. The hay was harvested from this farm. The 40 acres of pasture are divided into four pastures for rotation, grazing and proper management. OK-294-3.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Nellie Buffington Ranch / Farm, showing improved pasture. The cattle are grazing in 135 acres of Bermuda grass and clover pasture. At the time of the photo there were 114 yearlings on this pasture which usually carries 110 year-round. The owner stocks yearlings in the fall and sells them in July or August then restocks again in the following fall. They are alternated between the winter and the summer pastures. Thirty-eight acres of this farm are used in the rotation system and als… more
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Strawberries

Description: Photograph of a packing shed where strawberries are taken by the pickers. The pickers are paid as they bring the berries to the shed. The berries are packed in crates and are prepared to be shipped to market or the freezing plant. Berries are picked and handled quickly to conserve loss from spoilage.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Poultry

Description: Photograph of the interior of a 48,000 capacity broiler house which is 30' x 300' in size. The yearly output of broilers on the Edds Farm is approximately 98,000.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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