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Two Row Bermuda Sprigger

Description: Photograph of loading fertilizer into fertilizer box on two-row Bermuda sprigger. Landowner is applying fertilizer as per SCS technician's recommendations for soil conserving grass pasture. This cooperator understands the need for proper plant food for establishment of the grass.
Date: July 13, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Agronomy Watermelon Harvest

Description: Photograph of watermelons growing on the ground in a large open field of Minco silt loam (7m-A). Near the center of the image, a man is driving a tractor attached to a flat-bed where another man is riding and two other men are walking next to and far ahead of the tractor. Trees are visible in the far distance and scrubby plants are growing along the edge of the field in the lower-left corner of the image.
Date: July 22, 1966
Creator: Grimes, C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of the moving of a main drainage ditch. This ditch is part of a complete conservation system on 650 acres of cropland which recently has helped get 140 acres in crop production which previously have been too wet to handle. H. Philip Wample says he would have lost 175 acres of corn this spring withou the system. LA-61, 360.
Date: October 22, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sodding Equipment

Description: Photograph of a two-row Bermuda grass sodding equipment pulled by district-owned tractor and followed with a cultipacker. Planter is operated by C. C. Drewry and tractor is operated by W. T. Denson.
Date: 1958-07-XX
Creator: Turney, D. H.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Seeding King Ranch Bluestem

Description: Photograph of seeding King Ranch bluestem with grass drill. Seedbed was prepared with 10 ft. offset disc and harvested after first light rain. This old field area had been used for annual lespedeza pasture prior to the droughts of 1952 and 1953. John Bullman on tractor.
Date: April 16, 1954
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Construction of Lateral No. 3 One Mile North of Peno

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED workers constructing Lateral Number 3 one mile north of Peno, Oklahoma. A third UNIDENTIFED worker is working on another lateral in the right background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Looking up Lateral No. 3 now under construction. Ditch will drain field drain No. 7 and 9."
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Sturgeon, Fines
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man cultivating Ditch Bank Prior to Seeding Bermuda

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man using a farm tractor and disk to cultivate ditch bank prior to seeding Bermudagrass seed. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farm tractor and disk cultivating ditch bank prior to seeding Bermuda seed. Ditch was constructed in spring of 1943 and vegetation was not established. Side slopes 3 to 1."
Date: March 13, 1945
Creator: Breeden, A. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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