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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

Stubble Mulch

Description: Photograph of a good stand of wheat is present in this field where all tillage operations were performed with sweeps.
Date: November 17, 1960
Creator: Stith, C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1359.0339]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At a time of year when forward-looking people are setting philosophical and practical goals for themselves for the upcoming year. Wayman Weisner has one very simple milestone in sight."
Date: 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0405]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harvesting the wheat crop is the talk of northwestern Oklahoma as cutting resumes full tilt after a wet spell, but 3-year-old Jenifer Rader, daughter of Bill and Charlene Rader of Buffalo, finds wildflower a lot more interesting."
Date: June 26, 1980
Creator: Leonard, Carolyn
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Another former staff member spoke emotionally of his personality clash with Dr. Witten. Dr. Marvin S. Terrell, Buffalo, said he was on the staff of the hospital four years but left eight months after Dr. Witten came "because I couldn't stand it another day."
Date: May 28, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0329.0330]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's interesting to note that this six leading school-Ada, Douglass, Laverne, Muskogee, Thomas and Cushing-have one rated the entire 10 years under a single coach."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0392.0710]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Democratic gubernatorial candidate U.S. Clem McSpadden, left, gets in some last-minute hand shaking at a rally in a department store in Oklahoma City Saturday."
Date: August 24, 1974
Creator: Etheridge, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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