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Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.
Date: February 22, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Waterway Construction

Description: Photograph of Waterway under construction on the Margaret Shuman land in the Ditch Valley community. This waterway will carry water from 1,000 acres of drainage.
Date: January 12, 1972
Creator: Stith, C. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Buffalo, 1907

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Buffalo in Harper County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: December 1907
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Checking Growth of Yellow Sweet Clover

Description: Photograph of SCS Tech. Clarence E. Stith checks growth of biennial yellow sweet clover. Stith planted the clover in the spring of 1952 in this 20 acre wheat field solely to improve the soil, the deep roots opening up the soil for the free circulation of air and water. He also uses hairy vetch turned in to add organic matter. To follow clover with wheat for 4 or 5 years.
Date: July 3, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Description: Photograph of Carey silt loam profile. Note the compound columnar structure and the accumulation of caliche. The A1 horizon is about 12 inches thick, the B2 and B3 are about 2 ½ feet thick and the C ca [ca = pedogenic carbonates = carbonic acids that can that modify soil constituents] horizon extend below this. Entire picture covers 6½ feet of depth, typical of much of Carey soils in Harper County, transported by alluvial-colluvial forces from nearby hills and a weak B horizon has formed in pla… more
Date: July 14, 1956
Creator: Nance, Earl C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ed George Farm

Description: Photograph of a newly constructed terraces and sodded outlet channel in old cultivated field. Ed George Farm, 5 miles west of Buffalo, Harper Co., OK. Photo by Elvin W. Jenkins, February 21, 1941.
Date: February 21, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ditch Valley Irrigation Project

Description: Photograph of (L-R): R.A. Lotspeich and Orvin Shuman, (Harper County farmers) and County Commissioner Oden Sheppard shown at the inlet of two large culverts installed under new farm-to-market road in Harper County. Culverts will be utilized to carry overhead water in the Ditch Valley Irrigation project.
Date: February 22, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.
Date: February 22, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Native Grass Drill

Description: Photograph of a district owned native grass drill. The drill is a 8' combination seeder equipped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill.
Date: July 22, 1955
Creator: Stith, Clarence E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Settlers Irrigation Ditch

Description: Photograph of the Settlers Irrigation Ditch, approximately 15' cut where main irrigation ditch leaves river bottom. This ditch will carry irrigation water for a distance of 40 miles.
Date: February 21, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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