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Sand Accumulation Around Machinery and Farm Buildings

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man sitting on a cultivator looking at sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note man on cultivator, which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns in over 100 yds. long and 5 ft. high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard."
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Corn With A Buffer Strip of Clover Planted on Contour Strip and Rotation of Crops on D. E. Frank Farm/Stillwater District/Guthrie Camp

Description: Photograph of corn with a buffer strip of clover planted on contour strip and rotation of crops on D. E. Frank farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour strip and rotation of crops. This is corn with a buffer strip of clover. There was no run-off from this field during a 3 ¼ inch rain. The field is not terraced. This cooperator thought that it would be necessary to construct 6 to 8 miles of terraces on his farm, but there was no work done on this man's farm except the breaking down o… more
Date: July 13, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

W. G. Methvin Farm Prairie Dog Damage

Description: Photograph of the destruction of this field's natural grass cover by prairie dogs. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Showing how prairie dogs have killed out a lot of the natural grass cover here. A heavy stand of Canadian Thistles is visible in the background. Notice the prairie dog mounds visible in the foreground."
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Oats and Cotton Drilled on Contour and Terraces on the Frank DeVorak Farm/Stillwater District/Stillwater Project

Description: Photograph of oats and cotton drilled on contour and terraces on the Frank DeVorak farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Oats drilled on contour in a strip and on the terraces and between two strips of cotton, which is also planted on the contour."
Date: May 26, 1936
Creator: Slack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Spot Sodded on Pasture Contours

Description: Photograph of a field consisting of Bermuda, needle grass, and ragweed. Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours and will spread and completely cover the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours. All the other vegetation in the pasture consists of needle grass and ragweed's. The Bermuda will spread and in time completely cover the pasture, making it a great deal better than it was before the contours were built and the Bermuda started. To be followe… more
Date: December 7, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Spot Sodded on Pasture Contours

Description: Photograph of a field consisting of Bermuda, needle grass, and ragweed. Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours and will spread and completely cover the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours. All the other vegetation in the pasture consists of needle grass and ragweed's. The Bermuda will spread and in time completely cover the pasture, making it a great deal better than it was before the contours were built and the Bermuda started. To be followe… more
Date: December 7, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three UNIDENTIFIED Men Discussing The Benefits of Contour Farming and Crop Rotation/Muskogee District/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED men standing in a contoured field on the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "SCS Personal explaining contour farming and crop rotation to a colored cooperator."
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Earl Smith and an UNIDENTIFIED Man Discussing Advantages of Contour Farming and Strip Cropping on the W. E. Rowsey Farm/Muskogee District/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man with horse drawn equipment and Earl Smith, SCS Agronomist discussing advantages of contour farming and strip cropping n the W. E. Rowsey farm. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. UNIDENTIFED, 2. Earl Smith. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Earl Smith, SCS Agronomist discussing advantages of contour farming and strip cropping."
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Strip Cropped Field on the Christine Taylor Farm/Muskogee District/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of a field on the Christine Taylor farm stripped cropped on the contours with Sudan grass for hay and cotton. A house is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "A field stripped cropped on the contour with Sudan grass for hay and cotton."
Date: May 27, 1936
Creator: Slack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a graphic picture of an abandoned field very badly gullied due to incorrct farming procedures. This field, only part of which is shown here, could not even be reached by a pickup truck. Plowing the field up and down the hill was the primary reason for this "picture story". OK-5046.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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