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J.S. Krehbiel's Heading Gang

Description: Photograph of J.S. Krehbiel's Heading Gang. Numbered figures are: 1. J.S. Krehbiel, 2. S. Baumgartner, 3. J. Luginbill, 4. Mr. Funk, 5. J. Lichti, 6. Mr. Horsch, 7. J. Horsch, 8. D.R. Krehbiel, 9-10. Intruders. Photo by Smith Bros., Halstead, KS, 1890.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Smith Bros.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grasshopper Damage To Corn Field on the J. O. Godwin Farm/Stillwater project/Blackwell Camp

Description: Photograph of grasshopper damage to the J. O. Godwin farm cornfield. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Stillwater project, Blackwell Camp. J. C. Godwin Farm SE ¼ of 23-26N-1W. Grasshopper damage in the Chiskiska [sic] river valley. This area normally produces from 50 to 65 bushels of corn per acre in an average year. For a close up view showing grasshoppers still on a stalk of corn in this field, see Okla-5355. In 1936 the locusts took everything their paths. This was a promising corn fiel… more
Date: July 27, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a specially-constructed grader made from an old road maintainer. It has no front wheels and hitches to the tractor for frontal support. The grader and tractor are equipped with lights and is now working three eight-hour shifts a day. The graderfixed up in this way is very efficient. OK-5167.
Date: May 4, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a specially-constructed grader made from an old road maintainer. This grader has no front wheels and hitches directly to the tractor for frontal support. The grader fixed up in this way is very efficient. The grader and tractor are equipped with electric lights for night work and is being run three eight-hour shifts a day. OK-5166.
Date: May 4, 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

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 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
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