29 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.

[Photograph 2012.201.B1263.0596]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lt. Col. Warren C. Stirling, Clinton-Sherman, AFB, turns the first shoveful of earth to begin a 450 unit housing project on the base."
Date: March 27, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cover Crops

Description: Photograph of Lee Brown, operator, is plowing under mature cover of rye after it has been grazed about 5 months by livestock. Knie uses this field, approximately 100 acres of Class I, II, and III land, exclusively for grazing. He says the cattle gained about 2 lbs. per day and this utilization of the land produces considerable more than harvest crops by machine.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of creek channel erosion. Erosion on the stream bank due to overflow and irregular route of the creek channel. Detention reservoir site # 20, Cavalry Creek watershed, is on the next farm above this. Banks plans to straighten creek for better stream bank stabilization and increase tillable acres. OK-672-5.
Date: May 7, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grasses that are properly managed on the Troy Maddox farm. Maddox says having more grass in his pasture than he needs is good security. He buys when the market is down and sells when the market is up because he always has plenty of grass. Its moisture is adequate; he always has plenty of small grain pasture also. OK-776-2.
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita County Soil Conservation District Surplus Wheat

Description: Photograph of a 1958 surplus wheat crop from the Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators to hold and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. An UNIDENTIFIED individual is using a tractor to push the wheat. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bountiful crop of 1958 in Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. This entire crop was produced from land where good… more
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cordell Wheat Harvest and Elevator

Description: Photograph of a line of trucks waiting to unload their wheat payload into an elevator located in Cordell. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wheat harvest. Wheat trucking waiting to be unloaded into Cordell elevator. Wheat yields have been good in county since adoption of conservation practices such as terraces, waterways, legume rotation, and crop residue management."
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sasseen Ranch Sideoats Grama Grass

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man kneeling in a field consisting of sideoats grama grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Side oats [sic] grama grass on the Sasseen Ranch. This grass was planted in cotton stalks with the Washita County Soil Conservation District grass drill. The planting is four years old. Sasseen has received good grazing the past 2 years."
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stocking Fish Ponds

Description: Photograph of Augie Sewell, Washita County SCD supervisor and Darwin Craig, Cordell Sportsman Club receive fish from the Oklahoma Fish Hatchery delivery truck to be taken to floodwater retarding structures on Cavalary Creek watershed.
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Legume Rotation

Description: Photograph of Austrian winter peas growing in rotation with small grain. Nelson has been cooperating with the Washita County Soil Conservation District for several years. He stands between wheat and Austrian peas.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of surplus wheat. Bountiful crop of 1958 in the Washita Soil Conservation District was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. All this crop was produced from land where good soil conservation practices are carried out. OK-708-5.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of an erosion control dam. Olan Rowlett, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], showing Jody Deputy, District co-operator of the Washita County Soil Conservation District [SCD], where the water line above the overfall will be to stop erosion after the dam is constructed. OK-692-3.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass planting. A five-year old grass planting on the 1200 acre ranch of Eldred Sasseen. Sasseen has planted grass on his ranch every year the past five years. During 1959 and 1960 he expects to reseed all the remaining cropland to a native grass mixture of little bluestem, switch, sideoats grama, blue grama and lovegrass. OK-776-5.
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of brush control. Eldred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District [SCD] co-operator, makes a first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infested pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed and the grass left. OK-705-10.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen