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Contoured Field on the Nelms Avant Farm Growing Cowpeas and Milo Maize/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a contoured field on the Nelms Avant farm. This field is currently growing cowpeas and milo in alternating rows. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This is a field farmed on the contour to prevent water from running off rapidly and causing damage by erosion. In this particular field there are two separate crops, cowpeas and milo maize. These are planted in alternate rows."
Date: October 9, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

V-Shaped Patch of Sown Cane on the B.A. Howard Farm/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of a V-shaped patch of sown cane on the B. A. Howard farm, which is used to eliminate any point rows in the field of cotton, which is contoured. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This is a V-shaped patch of sown cane, which is used to eliminate any point rows in the field of cotton, which is contoured. Irregular strips and points such as this one are easily handled by planting them to some sown crop, which can be used for forage or hay. This enables the farmer to use all the lan… more
Date: October 9, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Cotton Field That is Unnecessarily Terraced to Prevent Erosion on the R. O. Haddock Farm/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of a cotton field that is unnecessarily terraced to prevent erosion on the R. O. Haddock Farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, “On long gentle slopes it is not necessary to terrace fields to prevent erosion. Here we have a field, which is planted to cotton on the contour. This slope is very good for the prevention of erosion, but when these cotton rows have a strip of some sown crop at intervals on the contour, erosion is practically eliminated. The sown strip here is maize."
Date: October 9, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

W. G. Methvin Farm Prairie Dog Damage/Chickasha Project

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

A Field of Cotton on the Contour with Strips of Sudan on the Contour on the Intervals/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of a field of cotton on the contour with strips of Sudan on the contour on the intervals on the W. W. Brown farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This shows a field of cotton on the contour with strips of Sudan on the contour on the intervals. On long gentle slopes erosion may be prevented by planting the row crops on the contour and then at intervals placing a strip of sown crop that varies in width to take up the irregularities and this will eliminate all short and point row… more
Date: October 9, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Strip of Sudan Grass on the Contour With Intervening Strips of Cultivated Cotton on Either Side/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of a strip of Sudan grass on the contour with intervening strips of cultivated cotton on either side. The back of the photograph proclaims, "A strip of Sudan grass on the contour with intervening strips of cultivated cotton on either side. In the Muskogee area, the field men are running a number of demonstrations such as this without the use of terraces."
Date: May 27, 1936
Creator: Slack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Furrows in Pasture

Description: Photograph of contour furrows in pasture. Made with 2-row lister on right, alternating 42 inches and 17.5 feet apart; on left, 7 feet apart made with 3-row lister. Approximately 1.5 lb blue grama grass seed per acre seeded along furrows immediately after furrowing.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Broken Elk City Reservoir Dam/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of the aftermath of a six-inch rain, which broke the Elk City Reservoir Dam. Notice the concrete debris in the foreground. The back of the photograph proclaims, “View of broken dam from downstream side. A six inch rain in one night caused the dam to overtop its entire length and finally break. Notice the huge pieces of concrete from the core wall and facing that were carried down by the water. A large bridge washed through this break. This dam and reservoir, which cost $350,000, silt… more
Date: May 5, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note men on the cultivator which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns is over 100 yds. long and five feet high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard. OK-44.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Vernon fine sandy loam, lower B horizon with columns o pillara protected by a cover of little bluestem grass. OK-5285.
Date: July 18, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Buffalograss Sod With Root System Exposed/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of buffalograss sod with root system exposed showing how the matt of roots forms an erosion resistant net. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Buffalo grass sod with root system exposed showing how the matt of roots forms an erosion resistant net. At the left is a runner which if undisturbed would have started new grass plants at each group of blades. Taken to illustrate an article by Mr. Ivy Howard.”
Date: October 9, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three UNIDENTIFED Farm Tenants Cultivating a Field of Cotton Planted on the Contour/Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED farm tenants cultivating a field of cotton planted on the contour. The back of the photograph proclaims, "This picture shows tenants on this particular farm cultivating a whole field of cotton that is planted on the contour."
Date: May 27, 1936
Creator: Slack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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