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[Photograph 2012.201.b1402.0272]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "and Derrell Wells jr., Mangum, top winners in the state cotton improvement contest sponsored by the Oklahoma Cotton Research foundation."
Date: March 9, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0436]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Haward Carleton, now living east of Perkins, Okla., who was in the U.S. forest service when the first shelterbelt plantings were made in 1935. Here he is shown with the first tree planted in the p[roject, an Austrian pine on the H. E. Curtis farm in the Lake Creek community of Greer county. The tree was only two feet tall when planted. It is 20 feet now"
Date: July 3, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0426]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Wild's an oldtimer in the Lake Creek section, who gave easments on his land for some of the very first shelterbelt plantings in 1935. Many of the trees now are more than 40 feet tall and serve to protect his crop land from wind erosion."
Date: July 3, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0083]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A LONG-TIME DREAM of western Oklahomans - a regional playground - is being realized with the development of Quartz Mountain State park by the state planning and resources board."
Date: March 1, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0434]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "James B. McBride, soil conservation director in Greer county for the last nine years, in a rural lane bordered on each side by farm shelterbelt rees that were planted in 1935-37."
Date: July 3, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of shelterbelts or windbreaks. A group of SCS technicians from the Great Plains states studying shelterbelts in Greer County, Oklahoma. This shelterbelt was planted in 1936 and was the first shelterbelt planted in the Plains area. OK-224-11.
Date: March 26, 1956
Creator: Bailey, O. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an alfalfa-sweet clover drill. James McBride, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC] and Soil Conservation Service [SCS], shows the advantages of a special alfalfa-sweet clover drill. Push-type double disk openers (International) are spaced at 8 inches on a strong angle-iron frame. Small seed boxes (Planter Jr. Type) are used, which permits a much lower and controlled seeding rates. In this area much land is subject to blowing and it is necessary to seed in a trashy cover. This type of e… more
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of District-owned tree planter O.H. Raby and son, Paul Raby in the photo. Tree planter is used for planting field shelterbelts, home windbreaks in Greer County, Kiowa County, Johnson County, Harmon County, Tillman County, Beckham County, Washita County and Roger Mills County. OK-258-7.
Date: May 1, 1956
Creator: McBride, J. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of a large field subject to severe wind erosion recently deep plowed. Note the large chucks of soil brought to the surface by deep plowing. This mechanical practice gives temporary resistance to wind erosion on this type of deep sandy soil (Soil Unit 12). Widespread use of this practice is not recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Vegetative control measures that improve the physical structure of the soil should be given first consideration. OK-253-8.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch

Description: Photograph of a close-up picture of stubble mulch. Mr. Staton stubble mulches wheat land with Holme followed with heavy duty double tandem disc to work muclh into surface soil. Average wheat yield is 40 bushels per acre. SCS program started in 1951 on this farm.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: Bailey, Oran F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Plowed

Description: Photograph of R.H. Gieck, Area Conservationist, SCS, examining large chunks of soil brought to the surface by deep plowing. This mechanical practice gives temporary resistance to wind erosion on this type of deep sandy soil (Soil Unit 12). Widespread use of this practice is not recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Vegetative control measures, that improve the physical sturcture of the soil, should be given first consideration.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Roy McMertry Deep Plowed Farm Pasture to Prevent Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of Roy McMertry's Farm pasture deep plowed to prevent wind erosion. The back of the photograph proclaims, "A large field subject to server wind erosion recently deep plowed. Note large chunks of soil brought to the surface by deep plowing. This mechanical practice gives temporary resistance to wind erosion on this type of deep sandy soil (Soil Unit 12). Widespread use of this practice is not recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Vegetative control measures, that improve the p… more
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Plowed

Description: Photograph of a large field subject to severe wind erosion recently deep plowed. Note large chunks of soil brought to the surface by deep plowing. This mechanical practice gives temporary resistance to wind ersoion on this type of deep sandy soil (Soil Unit 12). Widespread use of this practice is not recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Vegetative control measures, that improve the physical structure of the soil, should by given first consideration.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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