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Wildlife Are Improvement Water Control

Description: Photograph of a part of a 17 acre planted, flooded field and a water control system in a hardwood bottom for ducks. The cultivated field was planted to browntop millet in July and the seeds produced were flooded in October. The flooded hardwood bottom made the acorns produce on the Nuttall oak trees. The hardwood area is drained during the summer so as to not kill the trees. Over a thousand mallards were using this field the day the picture was taken.
Date: January 17, 1959
Creator: Dillon, Olan W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Dairy Stock Graizing

Description: Photograph of dairy stock grazing 6 acre field of first year sweet clover that was drilled in wheat spring of 1944. Thirty head have been grazing this field for 16 days.
Date: October 17, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Management

Description: Photograph of Fescue-Ladino mixture on soil unit 4. Fescue crowded out by clover, resulting in danger of bloat. Cooperator and SCS technicians agreed on method of planting clover width of drill, leaving strips of fescue with no competition from the clover. This pasture was drown out in the May flods.
Date: May 17, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Drip Cane Harvest

Description: Photograph of a 35 acre field of irrigated sugar drip cane is being harvested by a portable ensilage cutter. This field had 5 tons of manure applied per acre and mold board plowed 11 inches deep last year. There was no pre-planting irrigation but the field received 4 to 5 inches of rain in May before planting. The cane was planted at the rate of 7 pounds per acre in 33 inch rows, 1160 feet long. This field had three 4 inch applications of water and 30 pounds of anhydrous ammonia per acre during… more
Date: October 17, 1955
Creator: Meinders, Hadley
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Concord Grape Vineyard

Description: Photograph of showing the average growth of the 20 year old ten acre Concord Grape vineyard. The chorty soil was terraced before grapes were set. Soil building crop of vetch, yellow hop clover, lespedeza, and rye grass is maintained at all times except for short period during the final growth and ripening of the fruit. Phospate is applied under the legumes. A regular spray schedule has been maintained. There has never been a failure to produce a fair crop and they have produced 3000 bushels sev… more
Date: August 17, 1945
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Combining Native Grass Seed

Description: Photograph of combining native grass seed. Seed mixtire includes Little and Big bluestem, Switch and Indian grass. Meadow baled in early July. Seed harvested 10/17/58. Meadow yeilded 12,840 lbs. seed on approximately 100 acres.
Date: October 17, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Combnining Native Grass Seed

Description: Photograph of combining native grass seed. Seed mixture ncludes Little and Big Bluestem, Switchand Indian grass. Meadow baled in early July. Seed harvested 10/17/58. Meadow yeilded 12,840 lbs. seed on approximately 100 acres.
Date: October 17, 1958
Creator: Eaton, J. L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvesting Woodward sand Bluestem Seed

Description: Photograph of Marshall Smith and SCS technician B.F. Prickett harvesting Woodward sand bluestem seed. This 8 acre field was seeded in spring 1938. Produced approximately 2400 lbs. combine ran seed in 1959. Seed for this planting furnished by Plant Material Center.
Date: September 17, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvesting Grass

Description: Photograph of Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. Meadow has been managed properly and conditioned maintained. Estimated yield of combine run seed was 100 lbs. per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with Soil Conservation Service.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvesting Seed

Description: Photograph of harvesting native grass seed. Predominately little bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little blue stem and Indiangrass. Estimated yields of 100 lbs. per acre. Air dry.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigation-Border

Description: Photograph of completing construction of border irrigation system. The borders are on a 50 foot spacing in this project. The water for the system will come from 3 wells which produce 2500, 1700 and 700 gallons per minute. This system was designed and supervised by the Soil Conservation System.
Date: July 17, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graded Border Irrigation System

Description: Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Hurd and Moreland
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Combining Native Grass Seed

Description: Photograph of combining native grass seed. Seed mixture includes Little and Big bluestem, Switch and Indian grass; Meadow baled in early July. Seed harvested 10/17/58. Meadow yeilded 12,840 lbs. seed on approximately 100 acres. O'Neal Teague, County Agent, Wesley Fowler, SCS technician, and H. Wimberly, rancher, examining grass.
Date: October 17, 1958
Creator: Eaton, J. L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Silt Deposits

Description: Photograph of deep silt on Lalt Creek flood plain. Not fence posts almost covered. The rate of deposition is so rapid that weeds cannot establish themselves on extensive areas of the flood plain in the lower half of this watershed.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Mowing Pasture for Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a farmer mowing a pasture for weed control This is an important point in good pasture management and weeds can be contolled to a large extent if mowed as the proper stage of growth.
Date: May 17, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Strip Cropping with Winter Turf

Description: Photograph of strip farming with winter turf oats and vetch as sown crop and cotton sown in intervals. Cotton has just been planted and is barely visible at the present time. Ardmore Project
Date: May 17, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion on 12-CD-4 Soil

Description: Photograph of erosion common on 12-CD-4 soil type as mapped. This erosion is on the Kimball Ranch west of Marietta, Okla. Documented by the Love Co. SCD.
Date: August 17, 1956
Creator: Maxwell, A. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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