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Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of mesquite that has been controlled by using kerosene. No new sprouts are appearing at this time. Grazing has been reduced to improve the range condition. OK-1159-10.
Date: July 8, 1960
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock (and Grasses)

Description: Photograph of Angus cattle grazing on rye. Austrian winter peas and some volunteer vetch in a pecan orchard. The field has been well-fertilized. OK-1590-6.
Date: April 25, 1962
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species include greenbriar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalograss, tumblelove grass, tall dropseed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats gama, and little bluestem. Plow cutting from 8 to 10 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of hybrid field corn growing on Minco silt loam soil type nearly level Class I land. For use in Jefferson County Soil Survey Report. OK-1466-3.
Date: August 1, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a close-up of mesquite roots showing a bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow. OK-1407-8.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a four inch square sod to placed in a phytometer. OK-1466-8.
Date: September 24, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a root plow in operation in a mesquite thicket. Area sprayed previously, it appeared that most trees were dead but sprouted back. Present trees are from old sprouts. Plow cutting from 8 to 12 inches deep. The principle grass is buffalograss. OK-1407-7.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a root plow in action. Principal woody species include greenbriar, dewberry, buck brush, green ash and small oak. Principal grasses: buffalograss, tumblelove grass, tall dropseed, small amounts of switch grass, sideoats gama, and little blue stem. Plow cutting from 8 to 10 inches deep. OK-1407-5.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood damage on Cow Creek after a 2 inch rain in 1.5 hours. A pecan orchard. Note the tractor in the center of the picture by the trees. OK-1721-8.
Date: July 2, 1962
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photographic follow-up of OK-1002-7. Timber cleared in 1951, sprayed in 1959. OK-1467-8.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Waterpipes

Description: Photograph of Cecil Richardson with SCS technician Steve Collins and Al hudson, observing pipe spill as it functions on the Paul Dickey farm. OK-4936-[?].
Date: November 1972
Creator: Elliot, M.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Treadway Soils

Description: Photograph of landscape view showing Threadway soils, Red Clay Flats range site in foreground. Vegetation invaded by mesquite. Dominant grasses bluestem, tall dropseed, buffalo grass. Background shows breaks site of Vernon soils, broken phase.
Date: January 28, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pecan Grove Cleared of Heavy Underbrush

Description: Photograph of a pecan grove that has been cleared of heavy underbrush and sodded to bermuda-cleared in 1955. Bermuda planted along each year after clearing.
Date: September 14, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Mesquite Roots Showing Bud Zone

Description: Photograph of a close up of mesquite roots showing the bud zone. Trees had been sprayed previously and appeared dead. Present trees sprouted from old roots. Roots were plowed up with a root plow.
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Exclosure on Range Site

Description: Photograph of an exclosure on loamy portion of mixed clays and loams range site (50-B). Range in fair condition . District Manager L.C. Haskins, Rancher John Price and ranch hand Carl Mock in photo.
Date: July 18, 1960
Creator: Hager, P.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Bank Grass

Description: Photograph of soil bank grass and wildlife planting-locust trees-native grass mixture-land was clean cultivated in cotton in 1957. Laid out then sowed in 1958.
Date: September 14, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pure Blue Stem Site

Description: Photograph of native grass planting in the spring of 1959. Pure blue grass side by side with a complete native grass mixture. Planting occurred this way due to failure to mix seed.
Date: September 14, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Planting on Abandoned Cropland, Plot 4

Description: Photograph of plot 4 of Plant Materials field planting on abandoned field. Field laid out since 1947. Drilled in dense stand of old field of threeawn. No seedbed prepared. Loamy prairie and slickspot site.
Date: March 24, 1962
Creator: Hager, P.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Pond Under Construction

Description: Photograph of a farm pond under construction with two dozers. This pond is being constructed in range land to store water for livestock. Construction shows how dozers are working the mud out of the pond basin. The deposit of mud was caused by water seeping in from above.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Brush Control

Description: Photograph of brush control, this strip, 150 feet wide and one half mile long, sprayed in 1959 and again in 1960.
Date: September 3, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Loamy Prairie Range Claypan Area

Description: Photograph of Left-Loamy prairie range as included in loamy slickspot range site. Supports tallgrass mixture of little bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. Smaller amounts of sideoats grama. Note grass plants growing on exposed subsoil. Right-Claypan area as included in loamy slickspot site, supports meadow dropseed, blue grama, annual threeawn, sand dropseed, western ragweek, sideoats grama, fringeleaf paspalm, gummy lovegrass, and more whorled dropseed.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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