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[Photograph 2012.201.B0504.0123]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Checking the standings after winning top honors in the 4-H poultry contest are members of the Granite 4-H club team, left to right, Darlene Pietz, Delores Graumann and Lorraine Graumann"
Date: December 10, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Black-Eyed Peas Cover Crop

Description: Photograph of a cover crop of black-eyed peas. The back of the photograph proclaims, “blackeyed [sic] peas for a cover crop on land where alfalfa was grown in 1952. Cotton was grown in 1953-54. Class III land, 2% slope, Soil Unit 12. See photo No. Ok-92-10.”
Date: July 21, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0441]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This two by 8 feet lithograph is being placed in the rotunda of the OSR by Rev. Arnold Steverson, (back to camera) chaplain, with the assitance of four youthful inmates of the institution."
Date: December 22, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0116]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-three writhing diamond back rattlesnakes are attracting crowds at the Quartz mountain park, as Lloyd Broadie and Eiland Stokes open their concession "snake pit."
Date: May 16, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Covercrop

Description: Photograph of blackeyed peas for a cover crop following cotton for a long period of years. This field is adjacent to field where peas are growing after alfalfa. See photo No. OK-92-10. Class III land, 2% slope, soil unit 12.
Date: July 21, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Borders

Description: Photograph of irrigated alfalfa in contour borders to protect sloping thin land that is being cultivated. Land class III, slope 2%, Soil Unit 2p-RR.
Date: July 18, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigation

Description: Photograph of cotton field being irrigated with syphone from border ditch. Ivan Owen, owner, add fertilizer (liquid) to tirrigation water to irrigate and fertilize in one operation.
Date: July 18, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Row Irrigation

Description: Photograph of row irrigation; pre-irrigating for cotton. Newly perpared land; planned, staked and checked by SCS personnel in Greer Co. , SCD, Okla.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Row Irrigation

Description: Photograph of row irrigation; pre-irrigating for cotton. Newly prepared land; planned, staked and checked by SCS personnel in Greer Co., SCD, Okla.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Cutting alfalfa with a swather. Swather mows and swaths in a single operation. Alfalfa was irrigated with sprinkllers and will make 60 bales per acre from this second cutting. Class I land, 1% slope. Soil unit 8 & 9. OK-92-5.
Date: July 21, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock--Dietary and Nutritional Needs

Description: Photograph of silage, Fred Jackson farm. Trench silo is being filled with Atlas Sorghum. Feed is averaging 18 tons per acre of silage. Will be used to feed 65 head of diary cattle this winter. The crop was irrigated. OK-143-1.
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pre Irrigating for Cotton

Description: Photograph of row irrigation, pre-irrigating for cotton. Newly prepared land; planned, staked and checked by S"CS personnel in Greer Co., SCD, Okla.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigated Atlas Sorgo

Description: Photograph of Fred Jackson, owner, standing by side of irrigated Atlas Sorgo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fred Jackson, owner, standing by side of irrigated Atlas Sorgo. Crop is making 18 tons of silage per acre. Irrigation system was designed and staked by SCS personnel in the Greer Co. SCD."
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Murray, Hubert
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of contour farming with terraces. Field terraced and contour listed showing uniform distribution of water after rains. OK-465-5.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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