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Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Field # 2, Series 7. Milo [i.e., sorghum] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and hand-raked to co… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Field # 2, Series 6. Broomcorn [i.e., Sorghum bicolor] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and han… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Field # 2, Series 10. Sumac residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and hand-raked to cover. The east … more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Field # 2, Series 9. Haygrazer [i.e., Sorghum-Sudan grass] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodesha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds, each. These served to put pressure on treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored following the planting of a native grass seed mixture prepared by the Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Center, Manhattan… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 2, Series 7. Milo [i.e., sorghum] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) w… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 2, Series 9. Haygrazer [i.e., Sorghum-Sudan grass] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Weeping Lovegrass broadcast seeded on 3-20-67 on blow drigt along snow fence north end of fields 1, 2, 3. Broadcast fertilized 400 pounds 10-20-10 per year at planting time. West end (foreground) top-dressed 300 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer on 10 August 1976. Overseeded with native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) 3-26-68. OK-3013-9.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field #7 after traffic during operation of applying native grass mixture and topdressing of fertilizer. This 3.13 acre field was drilled to Balboa rye on 9-25-67 and fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer on February 1968. Rye stand yellowing on 3-25-67. On 3-25-68 this was gone over with a rotary hoe, then seeded to native grass mixture (south 150’ Vinita harvest) remai… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Cover of annual rye drilled 9-25-67 on blow drift area north of fields 1, 2, 3 between snow fences. Fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per year at planting time. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year in February 1968. Broadcast seeded to Big Sandreed (Calamovilfa gigantea) and broadcast fertilized with 400 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year on 3-26-68. Seed and fertilizer not covered. OK-3013-3. more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 2, Series 6. Broomcorn [i.e., Sorghum bicolor] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vini… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. This is a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodasha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds each. These served to put pressure on the treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored … more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. This is a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodasha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds each. These served to put pressure on the treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored f… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the par… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0312B.0693]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Virgil J. Jurgensmeyer started the family-owned operation four years ago as a way out of the rat race and heavy travel schedule he endured while growing mushrooms for Ralston-Purina in St. Louis, Mo."
Date: September 1, 1983
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0246]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Standing at the baptism of Miami's first triplets are, from left: Rev. John Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John Foust, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foust ,and Mrs. Anthony Karlskint."
Date: February 1, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cpl. Jack Ellington, left listens to a Tokyo news broadcast with his brother, George, who fears his home was ruined in the Miami, Okla. flood."
Date: August 1, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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