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Gully Control

Description: Photograph of trial basis of healing gullies. Gully sloped with a bulldozer. Cost estimated at $80. 00 for bulldozer work, $10. 00 for roots and planter. Gully approximately 550 feet long, 20 to 30 feet wide and 10 to 15 feet deep.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Frank Tansel Feeding Fish

Description: Photograph of Frank Tansel feeding fish in a newly stocked reservoir constructed July 1954. Bass weighng 1 1/4 lbs in 6 months. Three and four inch fingerlings planted with Blue Gills.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of filed stripping [or strip cropping] peanuts and grain sorghum for wind erosion protection. Field located across the road south from State Center School, on Indian land. OK-120-3.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a seven acre plot of land cleared with a bulldozer (John Holland) in June 1955, trees deposited in a windrow and offset by heavy disc plowing, 7500 pounds used to cut up underground roots into 12 to 14 inch segments. Depth of cut is approximately 12 inches. OK-97-8.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Charley Connelly standing beside a diary herd. The Weeping Lovegrass pasture is 2 years old, per the date of the photo. The land itself was cleared 3 years prior with a bulldozer followed with a 7500 pound brush disc plow. OK-119-2.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fisheries and Fish Management

Description: Photograph of Frank Tansel feeding fish in a newly stocked reservoir constructed in July, 1954. The bass weighed 1 ΒΌ pounds in 6 months. Three and four inch fingerlings planted with Blue Gills. OK-120-6.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fisheries and Fish Management

Description: Photograph of a conservation group studying farm ponds and fish management on a pond stocked in 1951. The pond is yielding bass and catfish weighing 4 to 5 pounds each. OK-120-2.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock

Description: Photograph of Ralph Wilson and some of his herds shown in 19 acres of 2 year old fescue. This 19 acres plus 25 acres of oats and vetch pasture and 1000 bales of alfalfa hay with some stubble grazing on small grain furnished pasture for 50 head of shorthorn cattle. OK-120-4.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fisheries and Fish Management

Description: Photograph of Frank Tansel casting for bass in a reservoir dug and stocked in 1954. Extra large fingerlings were planted and the bass weighed about 1 ΒΌ pounds in July, 1955. OK-120-7.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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