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

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of H.R. Wells, biologist, left, and M.D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a western wheatgrass planting. This native, cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This ;iving grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman's Association and the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Eastern Gamagrass Identification

Description: Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, Oklahoma City highschool students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. 4-H and FFA groups have found the plots helpful for review work in training for the National Land, Range and Pasture Contest sponsored each year by WKY and WKY-TV in Oklahoma City.… more
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Exhibitions and Presentations

Description: Photograph of H.R. Wells, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Biology Specialist in Oklahoma, studies the value of Vanada wild rye for food and cover for wildlife. This cool season native grass is a good source of food for quail, as well as excellent for grazing and, additionally, erosion. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the Oklahoma chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedmen’s Association and the Oklahoma State… more
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of H. R. Wells, biologist, left, and M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, discuss a Western wheatgrass planting. This native cool-season grass furnishes good food and cover for wildlife, as well as excellent grazing and erosion control. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Seedman’s Association and the Oklahoma State fair and Exposition. OK-298-12.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Robert Gamble, left, and Bill Shirley, right, Oklahoma City high school students, study identifying characteristics of Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Over 50 kinds of grasses, legumes and forbs native to Oklahoma are growing in a living grass exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. This living grass exhibit was planned and established by members of the chapters of the Soil Conservation Society of America, in cooperation with Oklahoma Seedman’s Associa… more
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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 ¼ pounds in 6 months. Three and four inch fingerlings planted with Blue Gills. OK-120-6.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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