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Bermuda Grass Planter

Description: Photograph of two row bermuda grass planter designed by the Soil Conservation Service and built by Chickasha Manufacturing Do. Claude Thompson is the tractor operator in the photo. This field is on the Arnold Obie farm located two miles east of Ardmore.
Date: June 19, 1949
Creator: Archer, Sellers G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of diversion terraces (DT) under construction on SCD cooperator E.P. Ballow’s farm. Ballow is carrying out practices as recommended by Soil Conservation Service technicians. DT's constructed to add additional drainage to farm pond for livestock water. Bulldozer at work looking west. OK-1017-3.
Date: October 19, 1959
Creator: Ball, L. F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an alfalfa-sweet clover drill. James McBride, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC] and Soil Conservation Service [SCS], shows the advantages of a special alfalfa-sweet clover drill. Push-type double disk openers (International) are spaced at 8 inches on a strong angle-iron frame. Small seed boxes (Planter Jr. Type) are used, which permits a much lower and controlled seeding rates. In this area much land is subject to blowing and it is necessary to seed in a trashy cover. This type of e… more
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of contour blanklisted furrows in the foreground which are not only protecting this field but are collecting soil blowing from the unprotected field in the background. The angle which the closest man is leaning into the wind indicates its velocity. OK-5466.
Date: March 19, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of pasture improvement. The area to the right, one year ago was exactly like that on the left. The shrub brush was removed, sprouts mowed three times during the summer and grazing prohibited. Note differences of grass growth. OK-5994.
Date: November 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Culton boys at well in which the water level has risen 6 to 8 feet in the last two years since terraces were built and contour farming has been practiced. OK-5296.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of harvest cutting. It takes good logs to make good homes. To keep this mill operating continuously the Stauter Lumber Company buys logs from the McCurtain County Land Utilization [LU] Project formerly administered by the Soil Conservation Service. Increased timber volume enabled this mill to employ 85 people where none worked before. OK-315-12.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of a large field subject to severe wind erosion recently deep plowed. Note the large chucks of soil brought to the surface by deep plowing. This mechanical practice gives temporary resistance to wind erosion on this type of deep sandy soil (Soil Unit 12). Widespread use of this practice is not recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Vegetative control measures that improve the physical structure of the soil should be given first consideration. OK-253-8.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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