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Proper Use of Stubble Residue

Description: Photograph of proper use of stubble residue Demonstration plot No. 3. Results after tandem disk and twist chisel operations leaving 900 lb. of resudue on surface from original 3900 lb.
Date: June 6, 1965
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Proper Use of Stubble Residue

Description: Photograph of the proper use of stubble residue, demonstration Plot No. 1. Results after the second large sweep operatiobn leaving 2400 lbs. of straw from the original 3900 lb.
Date: June 6, 1965
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Proper Use of Stubble Residue

Description: Photograph of proper use of stubble residue Demonstration plot No. 4. Results after tandem disk and large sweep operation leaving 2100 lb. of resudue on surface from original 3900 lb.
Date: June 6, 1965
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Proper Use of Stubble Residue

Description: Photograph of proper use of stubble residue Demonstration plot No. 7. Results after Twist Chisel operations leaving 2200 lb. of resudue on surface from original 3900 lb.
Date: June 6, 1965
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Proper Use of Stubble Residue

Description: Photograph of Demonstration plot No. 9. One way, first operation leaving 1500 lb. straw from 3900 lb. original. Don Jackson preparing plots for "Use of Crop Residue Field Day" June 30, 1965.
Date: June 30, 1965
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind Strip & Rotation, Hay and Pasture

Description: Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Description: Photograph of a stubble mulch grain drill (John Deere) drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulching Ewuipment

Description: Photograph of Rod Weeder, one of two tools necessary to do the right kind of job of stubble mulching.
Date: May 9, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation Crop for Rotation Hay

Description: Photograph of 8 months after seeding lovegrass as a conservation crop for rotation hay on Soil Bank land. SCS Technician John Nelson, left, and Robert Lippert, right, observing establishment of weeping lovegrass on 160 acre cropland under Soil Bank Contract 8 months after seeding.
Date: October 31, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Rotation Hay and Pasture

Description: Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800 lb. seed on the 4 acres. After 5 years the strips are plowed up and other strips are seeded to control wind erosion.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hay and Pasture Rotation (2)

Description: Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of Mr. Harold Myers, Wheatland Experiment Station superintendent, holding up wheat stubble and root system which has been released by the Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind Strip & Rotation, Hay and Pasture (2)

Description: Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of a Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine with blade raised out of ground. It is the preferred type of tillage mulch machine being used on Wheatland Experiment Station by Supt. Harold Meyers.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation

Description: Photograph of a John Deere stubble mulch grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8 inch blade. This is front view of grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of Noble blade stubble mulch tillage machine being used on Wheatland Exp. Station. This is the first operation by the 8 ft. blade cutting approximately 5 inches under the surface. It raised the slice of dirt slightly, but leaves the stubble and other residue in place.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage Operation (2)

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a concentric ring infiltrometer used on the experiment station at Cherokee, Oklahoma. It was developed by Maurice B. Cox, Agricultural Engineer, working in cooperation with Louis E. Darr and W. Elmo Baumann, soil scientists. The water level in the rings are maintained at equal depth with the float chambers made from discarded automobile carburetors. The rate of infiltration is recorded by a reconnaissance of the filled gage bucket. Louis E. Darr, soil scientist, observing the equi… more
Date: September 1951
Creator: Cox, Maurice B.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Kochia weed and salt grass on salt area where it is very difficult to get crops started. The problem is this—getting the crops started. Volunteer kochia weed serves as a priority treatment to get a cover on the land. At certain stages cattle graze readily and it supplies a large amount of organic material when plowed down in a seed-bed preparation. OK-745-2.
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Austrian winter peas and barley in the cropping system. OK-498-6.
Date: July 6, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulching equipment, here a rod weeder, as one of the two tools necessary to do the right kind of job when stubble mulching. OK-958-7.
Date: May 9, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a plastic protector for a waterway. State soil Conservationist Earl Rowley and Dan Hamill. Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Weatherford, Oklahoma, demonstrates a plastic cover that can be spread over a Bermuda grass waterway where the slope increase would be a hazard. Water can flow over the plastic preventing erosion. The Bermuda grass receives sunlight through the plastic. Soil moisture loss under the covered area is reduced to a minimum. OK-692-7.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of 7X-AB Pratt Fine Sandy Loam soil. Reinhart using a rod weeder fastened to a chisel type instrument. Chisels loosens soil and rod rotates in reverse which lifts all vegetation up from 4 inch depth. On tighter or more loamy soils this machine is used after one-waying for the second operation.
Date: July 25, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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