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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat Harvest

Description: Photograph of a wheat harvest scene, combine in foreground is transferring wheat to a truck. Other combines can be seen cutting wheat in background.
Date: July 20, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Tilling Wheat Stubble

Description: Photograph of tilling wheat stubble land with oneway plow. Condition and amount of residue on the soil surface following this tillage operation can be seen in foreground.
Date: July 20, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch. Stubble mulch tillage operation on the Myrtle Patterson farm in Trail Flat. Stubble from 35 bushels of wheat per acre. Soil Conservation Service [SCS] program started in 1952 on this farm. OK-349-11.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: Riley, J. T., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Constructing Channel Type Terraces

Description: Photograph of constructing channel type terraces with an excavator type terracing machine. This is the first farm in Dewey Co. Soil Conservation District that is participating with the Great Plains Conservation Program.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigated Coronado Side Oats

Description: Photograph of irrigated Coronado Side Oats grama grass planted for seed production. This grass will make two seed crops per year and will produce from 200 to 400 pounds of seed per acre under irrigation. It is excellent grass to use in native grass mixtures for seeding cultivated land back to grass.
Date: July 19, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Site No. 1A, Barnitz Creek After 5-inch Rain

Description: Photograph of Site No. 1A, Barnitz Creek near Leedey after approximately five-inch rain. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Site No. 1A after approximately 5-inch rain at Leedey, Okla., 6-17-56. Water lacks approx. 1 foot being top of riser. “
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: Ritchey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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