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Earl Tucker Harvesting Mung Bean Field

Description: Photograph of Harold Welsh and Earl Tucker harvesting Tucker's mung bean crop. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1.Earl Tucker, 2. Harold Walsh. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting mung bean crop planted 20# per acre, June 1, 1943. Farm Planner Harold Welsh and Earl Tucker (left) farm owner, examine the crop. One field yielded 400# per acre and average yield on entire 30 acres is 312# to 315# per acre. The beans are following barley destroyed by green bugs a… more
Date: August 19, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fame Drainage Project, Grader Constructed, Two-Mile Long Drainage Ditch

Description: Photograph of Rt. Abbie Busha and Katie Fisher standing in a two-mile long drainage ditch, constructed via grader, for the disposal of excess surface water for over twenty-one farms in the area. This benefits 1790 acres, while the excess surface water drains into the North Canadian River. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Rt. Abbie Busha, 2. Katie Fisher. The back of the photograph proclaims, "2 Mile long, grader constructed, drainage ditch for disposal of excess surfa… more
Date: February 4, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of standard street sweeping equipment that was successfully used to harvest Buffalo grass seed. The sweeper brush is raised and the collector pan—ahead of the brush and not showing—would be in the dummy position. The machine was put to work on a golf course to collect the seed needed for reinvigorating and Oklahoma military airfield. Tarpaulins were placed on each side of the fairway and the collector of seed, trash and grass was dumped on the tarpaulins and then sacked. The golf cou… more
Date: 1943
Creator: Smith, James E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of 4 rows of crotolaria for wind erosion control and soil improvement alternating with 8 rows of peanuts. Mr. J.R. Grydor, father of J.W. Grydor, examines the crotolaria seed crop. TX-41-307.
Date: October 6, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a grass drill developed at Woodward, showing special seeder boxes mounted for seeding small-seeded spices such as Eragrostis curvula [aka: weeping lovegrass] and Eragrostis trichodes [aka: sand lovegrass] and naked caryopses [aka: grains] of some larger-seeded species. OK-8714.
Date: January 25, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of W.A. Maples farm land. Wind strips on Contour. 4 rows of crotolaria alternating with 8 rows of peanuts on 20 acres of Texas field. Next year, Maples plans to use a 4-row strip with 2 rows of crotolaria on the outside of two rows of peas. Crop residue is from last year's strips of sorghum. Peanuts on the field last year yielded 24 bushels per acre. The 74 acre field is all planted on the contour and stripped for wind erosion. 30 acres are protected with 2 rows of peas plus a row of… more
Date: October 6, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of W.A. Maples farm land. Contour cultivation and wind strips for erosion control on peanut land. The four rows of sorghum planted alternately with 8 rows of peanuts were severely grazed and a slight amount of wind erosion is evident although it is not serious. Wind erosion control strips on peanut fields should not be grazed and tall growing vegetation should be left to afford the fullest possible protection to the sandy soils. TX-40-893-B.
Date: February 16, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

G. C. Gardner and Ralph Shaver Standing in Shaver’s Four-Acre Field of Sweetclover That Yielded 300 Pounds of Seed

Description: Photograph of G. C. Gardner and Ralph Shaver standing in Shaver's four-acre field of sweetclover that yielded 300 pounds of seed. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. G. C. Gardner, 2. Ralph Shaver. The back of the photograph proclaims, "4 Acre Field of Sweet Clover that yielded 300 lbs. of seed. G. C. Gardner, left and Ralph Shaver in the picture. Shaver says he has planted corn after sweet clover and experienced yield of 15 bushels more per acre than where clover was no… more
Date: November 9, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

G. G. Gross Cover Drilling and Vetch Plowing in Pecan Orchard

Description: Photograph of G. G. Goss on a tractor drilling cover and soil improving crop of vetch in a 26-acre pecan orchard. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling cover and soil improving crop of Vetch in a 26 acre Pecan Orchard. In the same operation, Goss is applying 100# super phosphate per acre. Nimrod Fine Sand."
Date: October 7, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the harvesting of a mung bean crop planted at 20 pounds per acre on June 1, 1943. Farm planner Harold Welch (left) and Earl Tucker (right) farm owner, examine the crop. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and the average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 to 315 pounds per acre. The beans followed a barley crop destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil-improving qualities of mung beans,” h… more
Date: August 19, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of mowing a Johnson Grass Meadow. A 27 acre bottomland field that is subject to overflow. “From May 1 to July 10 I had 34 head of beef stock on this grass,” said Earl Fish, “and the last of July, I got a hay crop that yielded at least a ton to the acre. I let the stock stay on the grass until about August 5 and I am now getting my second hay crop. I expect to make about ½ ton per acre this cutting, put the stock back to grazing and leave them until the first frost, probably in the mi… more
Date: August 20, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of two acre Bermuda grass pasture strip developed from a badly gullied draw. The draw was sloped and sodded in 1938 and now provides grazing at the rate of 1 unit per acre and serves as an outlet channel for 70 acres of terraced and cultivated land. Mr. Fred Bunch states that this pasture strip furnishes better grazing than any of his 28 acres of native pasture on this 160 acre farm. He also states that his soil conservation practices have increased by $1,000 the value of this farm. … more
Date: September 25, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd… more
Date: May 29, 1943
Creator: Hammett, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of harvesting mung beans planted 20 pounds [?] per acre, June 1, 1943. Mr. Earl Tucker (operating combine) said that he planted 30 acres this year and had never tried to grow a mung bean crop before. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 – 315 pounds per acre. The beans are following barley as destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil improving qua… more
Date: August 19, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of P.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris's Soil Conservation District [SCD] and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12 acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land is contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service assigned to assist the district. Grass t… more
Date: May 29, 1943
Creator: Hammett, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of J.B. Cutrer, left, and Dr. H.H. Bennett, chief of the USDA SCS, right, watching a young Guernsey cow enjoying a good meal of fine clovers in improved pastures established in the Fall of 1941 at a cost of approximately $17.00 per acre, not including labor. Cutrer says "When the herd was turned into pasture on April 23, 1942, our daily milk production ranged from 275 to 300 pounds. Two weeks later, milk production ranged from 600 o 625 pounds. Also saw a large savings in food. Cattl… more
Date: April 15, 1943
Creator: Webb, C. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Hills Brothers Ranch, Fairfield, Texas. A herd of registered polled Herefords grazing upon improved Bermuda and carpet grass pasture. A heavy growth of trees and underbrush was cleared from the area about 3 years ago and where the carrying capacity was about unit to 8 acres it is now 1 animal unit to 1½ acres. This pasture was not seeded after clearing but grazing has been controlled. “We had one 300-acre brush pasture that used to carry only about 35 head,” said Mr. Hill, “bu… more
Date: May 14, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the J.L. Brock farm showing improved pasture. 25 cows, 6 yearlings and 11 calves are grazing on this 4-acre clover and Dallis grass pasture. These 42 animals have been alternated on two 4-acre pastures since December 20, 1942. LA-D7-17.
Date: April 16, 1943
Creator: Webb, Gordon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of pasture development and improvement. Beef cattle are grazing on Bermuda pasture overseeded to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medic and white Dutch clovers. 15 acres cleared and sodded this year. Mr. J. L. Jeffus, the district supervisor in the picture, says “In 1937 I started clearing and retiring 216 acres for pasture. With the assistance of CCC [the Civilian Conservation Corps] we cleared 40 acres of small trees and heavy undergrowth and retired 176 acres of cultivated land tha… more
Date: July 22, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd… more
Date: May 29, 1943
Creator: Hammett, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12-acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] assigned to the district. Grass today … more
Date: May 29, 1943
Creator: Hammett, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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