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Midland Bermuda Grass Pasture

Description: Photograph of Midland bermuda grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954, pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasxture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of wind erosion control. Homemade wind erosion coontrol made of old tires spaced at 20 feet intervals to try to check wind erosoion on the county road. These tires are used to slow wind erosion until vegitation can get started in the borrow ditch.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Tick Clover

Description: Photograph of Tick Clover along margin of blackjack timber growing in borrow ditch. This Tick clover is a wild legume and is doing well along the roadside.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sand Dunes

Description: Photograph of sand dunes that wee at one time active becoming stabilized by giant reed bluestem grass.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Midland Bermuda Grass Pasture

Description: Photograph of a Midland Bermuda Grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954 pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Active Sand Dunes

Description: Photograph of active sand dunes becoming stabilized with the use of blow-out grass and sand bluestem grass. The sand in these dunes was blown up from the North Canadian river bottom.
Date: July 8, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
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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.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a district-owned native grass seed drill. The drill is an 8-foot combonation seeder equiped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill. OK-133-4.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: Stith, Clarence
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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.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation 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
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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.
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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.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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