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Tree Planting

Description: Photograph of Catalpa, locust, Osage, and mulberry trees on contour rows below a terraced field. These trees were planted in the spring of 1938 and have been cultivated twice. To be followed with later pictures.
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hobart Camp Wheat Project

Description: Photograph of cutting and threshing wheat on the contour with a combine in a terraced field. The wheat was drilled in with a deep furrowed drill on the contour.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of water standing in lister furrows and terrace channel after a four-inch rain in a cotton field planted on the contour.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of a cotton field with rows running up and down the hill during a 4-inch rain. Note the relatively small amount of water in the rows. It is running down in the hill and emptying into the wash in the background. This wash is cutting directly across the filed and is over 100 feet wide and about 18 inches deep. This picture was taken the same time as picture number Okla. 5837. Contract the pictures for the value of contour farming. This farm is situated directly North across Highway No.… more
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of SCS personnel explaining contour farming and crop rotation to African-American farmers. OK-5502.
Date: July 13, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of water standing in lister furrows and terrace channel after a four-inch rain in a cotton field planted on the contour. OK-5839.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of contour rows of coton in an unterraced field. Notice the reverse curve in the rows. OK-5342.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosian Control

Description: Photograph of the T.J. David farm. Vegetated seven foot drop, two to one slope in lower end of terrace outlet channel. Channel shown in OKLA 5330. Loose rock and sod construction with wire holding sod in place until it becomes well-established. Bermuda sod used.OK-5328.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Culton boys at well in which the water level has risen 6 to 8 feet in the last two years since terraces were built and contour farming has been practiced. OK-5296.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a double drop masonry structure placed at the lower end of terrace outlet channel. Structure is built so that it provides a bridge in the farm driveway. Otherwise, it would have been necessary to build the driveway through the outlet channel. OK-5334.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a Permian Redbed sandstaone exposure with clumps of little bluestem growing wherever there is any soil. B and C horizon in the background vegetated primarily with little bluestem. OK-5284.
Date: July 18, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a farm pond with an earth-filled dam. Loose rock rip-rap and spillway. This is quite typical of farm pond construction in this area. The water is low due to the severe hot and dry summer. Some farm ponds supply the only stock water available on many farms. OK-5332.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lost Water from Straight Row Farming

Description: Photograph of lost water from straight row farming on about 2 percent slope section of land. Water was coming from field out into bar ditch in foreground along highway. Photograph was taken during a 1 in. rain.
Date: July 14, 1938
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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