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Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Description: Photograph of conservation training. This excellent job of vegetating the dam on Site no. 2 of Greens Creek is in the evidence here as the trainees and instructors of the Stephenville Training Center pose for a picture. Note the knot-root paspalum grass in the foreground along the water line and Bermuda grass on the rest of the dam.
Date: July 22, 1959
Creator: King, Allen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Description: Photograph of conservation training. A study of grasses and their adaptability is being conducted by Plant Material instructor, James E. Smith, on the grass plots grown cooperatively between Tarleton State College and the Soil Conservation Service Training Center. The trainees come from Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico along with one visitor from Indonesia.
Date: July 22, 1959
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping. Strip Cropping on the W.H. Hair Farm near Dublin, Texas. Two rows of Sudan grass in strips and 8 rows of crops on Soil Unit 12. TX-307-5.
Date: March 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of heads of silver bluestem (Andropogon saccharoides). TX-44, 659.
Date: September 22, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Description: Photograph of conservation training. The purpose of the detention reservoir on small watersheds is being explained by training center supervisor, walter E. Chessmore, while Maurice Gamble was waiting to discuss vegetating of the dam as a part of agronomy training at the Stephenville Training Center.
Date: July 22, 1959
Creator: King, Allen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of strip cropping. Strip cropping on the W,H. Hair farm near Dublin, Texas. Two rows of Sudan grass in strips and 8 rows of crops on Soil Unit 12. TX-307-6.
Date: March 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Meadow Waterway Developed From Old Gully

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men standing in a meadow waterway developed from an old gully. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Meadow waterway developed from old gully. In 1937 the gully was worked with a blade and seeded to bluestem. Excess terrace water from entire cultivated area of the farm is now being safely disposed of through this channel."
Date: April 21, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Indiangrass, planted in March 1949, which has been harvested twice for seed. A. W. Shoup, gets early spring grazing, harvests seed on October. He pulls the cattle off about May 1 to make a good seed crop. From five acres of Indiangrass, Shoup took 131 pounds of re-cleaned seed in October, 1949, and 490 pounds in October, 1950. The Indian grass was preseeded for five years by vetch and small grain (oats and rye). From left are Bill Haiser and E.E. McAllester, Soil Conservation Serv… more
Date: March 28, 1951
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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