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Drilling and Blasting Methods

Description: Photograph of close-up view of camp boys drilling dynamite holes with air hammer for blasting rock loose in rock quarry. OK-5017.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of straw whiskers damming an outlet channel to spread the water and prevent outting while the grass is becoming weel-established. OK-5733.
Date: May 26, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Erosion Project

Description: Photograph of huge alkali spot. Banks are to be sloped and to be straw mulched. Black locust trees to be planted and entire area to be fenced out.
Date: November 20, 1937
Creator: May, Clyde
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Strait Lane Eroded by Water Emptying From Terraces

Description: Photograph of strait lane eroded by water emptying from terraces. A house or barn is in the background of photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Straight lane badly eroded by water emptying from terraces."
Date: November 20, 1937
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Terrace Erosion

Description: Photograph of straight lane badly eroded by water emptying from terraces.
Date: November 20, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of Little Bluestem grass reestablishing itself in badly gully eroded area which was formerly cultivated. Notice the soil holding properties of the grass.
Date: April 11, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Civilian Conservation Corps

Description: Photograph of one of the occasional occurences of CCC boys engaged in Soil Conservation Services [SCS] work. The men are unloading the truck of excess weight which caused it to bog down in a small gulley. Others are hitching on a chain to another truck which will help to pull it out. OK-6318.
Date: April 12, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of one of the occasional occurences of CCC workers engaged in Soil Conservation Services [SCS] work. The men are unloading the truck of excess weight which caused it to bog down in a small gulley. Others are hitching on a chain to another truck which will help to pull it out. OK-6318.
Date: April 12, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Two UNIDENTIFED Farmers Plowing Up Contour Ridges to Spread Bermuda/Duncan Project

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED farmers using horse drawn equipment plowing up contour ridges in an attempt to spread Bermuda planted the previous year. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Plowing up contour ridges in an effort to spread Bermuda which was planted last year.”
Date: April 12, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully Control in Natural Drain

Description: Photograph of gully control in a natural drain, formerly 15 foot to 20 foot deep. Soil Conservation sloped banks, made fills and solid sodded to Bermuda grass. Approx. 700 acres drain through this outlet and erosion is almost 100% stabilized. May to August 1940 this outlet safely carried run-off from a total of 25 inches of rainfall.
Date: November 16, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cattle

Description: Photograph of cattle on the G. W. Cook farm.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class I Land

Description: Photograph of rows of cotton and corn on J. J. Briscoe's farm.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class I Land (Upland)

Description: Photograph of Class I Land (Upland) in cultivated straight rows of cotton with corn in background. Ano apparent erosion. No conservation practices needed other than winter cover crops and crop rotation as practiced under sound farming methods. Chickasha Very Fine Sandy Loam.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class II Land

Description: Photograph of rows of cotton, sudan, small grain, and sorgum on R. B. Fry's farm.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class II Land

Description: Photograph of rows of cotton, sudan, small grain, and sorgum on R. B. Fry's farm.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class II Land

Description: Photograph of rows of cotton, sudan, small grain, and sorgum on R. B. Fry's farm.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class III Land

Description: Photograph of blackjack, postoak, and tall grass cover of brush on a section of Joe S. Hansen's land.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class III Land

Description: Photograph of blackjack, postoak, and tall grass cover of brush on a section of Joe S. Hansen's land.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

I. G. Crotts

Description: Photograph of I. G. Crotts standing between fields of corn and cotton.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pulaski Very Fine Sandy Loam

Description: Photograph of Pulaski very fine sandy loam.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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