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Gully Caused by Heavy Rainfall

Description: Photograph of a gully caused by the 19-inch rainfall which fell in 7-hours on June 22. This gully, 25 feet deep and 40 feet wide, & several blocks long, is in the middle of what was a travelled street before the rain started. Less than 2 acres of land drain into the gully above its head.
Date: July 9, 1968
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully Control

Description: Photograph of gully control by diverting wter, sloping banks and planting trees. This area was formerly a huge gully caused by unprotected diversion ditch. An area has been fenced out of pasture. Gully banks sloped, diversion terrace constructed and cottonwood and black locust trees planted. Erosion is 100% stabilized and trees show good growth. Geary, Okla. CCC Camp
Date: November 14, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

John Briscoe Ranch

Description: Photograph of the John Briscoe Ranch, part of the 70 acre old cultivated field retired and planted to little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and blue-green grasses about the 1st of March 1945. Mixture was seeded at a rate of approximately 12 pounds per acre. This 10 acres was seeded for permannet pasture on clean cotton land. Yield is estimated to be 30 to 35 pounds combined material per acre. Briscoe retired 135 acres last year on this farm and 65 acres on another farm he owns. Next year he … more
Date: October 13, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Geary Camp

Description: Photograph of a highway sign five miles north of Geary erected by the camp on the north boundary of its demonstration area. OK-5451.
Date: March 17, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 … more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Earl Judge, left Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Soil Conservation District [SCD]-65, and D.G. Craig, Agronomist, Great Plains states, checking prospects for a good wheat yield. Mr. Jude Matli, an SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent soil loss from his 70 soil by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible… more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 … more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching on wheat land. Stubble mulch implement of Guy Schroder’s. This implement has a series of five 32-inch sweeps. Schroder is a cooperator with the North Caddo Soil Conservation District [SCD] and started the Soil Conservation Service program on this farm in 1950.
Date: October 26, 1956
Creator: Kealthley, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass planting. This 7-acre seeding of Caucasian bluestem was planted in rows in 1951 on soil IV-12. Mr. Graden Teeter, shown, is a Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor. His use of this seedling has been consistent with good management practices. He has used it for a seed increase plot and for winter grazing. Note volunteer seedlings covering the areas between the rows. OK-298-1.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass. Lee Awtrey, Work Unit Conservationist {WUC] Elza Bullen of the Central North Canadian Soil Conservation District [SCD], and Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration [FHA], observing the growth of the native grass in pasture that had been chemically treated to kill blackjack growth. OK-703-10.
Date: July 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of the W.K.Y. watershed. Aerial view of a gullied, natural draw to be controlled by diversion of runoff, sloping and sodding. Field in the lower left will be terraced with outlets onto native grass pasture. The pond is to be constructed near the lower end of the gullied draw. See OK-9112, -9113 and -9119). OK-9114.
Date: February 2, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the harvesting of a mung bean crop planted at 20 pounds per acre on June 1, 1943. Farm planner Harold Welch (left) and Earl Tucker (right) farm owner, examine the crop. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and the average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 to 315 pounds per acre. The beans followed a barley crop destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil-improving qualities of mung beans,” h… more
Date: August 19, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulching

Description: Photograph of SCS Technician B.P. Prickett examining stubble mulch tillage. First time over with 32" sweeps-4" deep. Before 3" rain. No runoff here from rain. Adjoining cotton field washed considerably.
Date: July 6, 1961
Creator: Bogard, J. R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Blackjack Spraying

Description: Photograph of Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of FHA, observing the kill and deterioration of woody growth following chemical treatment which was supplied in 1956 and 1957.
Date: June 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of GPCP participant Vernon Breckenridge checking one-year growth of midland bermuda. Breckenridge has sprigged 20 acres of bermuda grass for each of the last three years.
Date: September 12, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of upland alfalfa for soil management, William Widnay farm. Earl Judge (right) discusses the advantage of alfalfa on upland for soil building and cover. Mr. Widney uses alfalfa in his conservation crop rotation. This was seeded in the fall of 1952. For a nurse crop, ½ bushel of wheat per acre cross-drilled in wide spaced rows (every other row drilled). Wheat made 20 bushels per acre. Utilization of alfalfa has been spring hay crop, seed crop in the summer, and fall pasture. He has an… more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully Erosion Near Eagle City

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a gully, which will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass to control gully erosion and protect the endangered cropland. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Gully Erosion. Gully that is endangering cropland. This gully will be flumed and sodded to Bermudagrass in order to get water to the base grade and control the gully. See Ok-724-5 for view farther up the gully.”
Date: July 9, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of harvesting mung beans planted 20 pounds [?] per acre, June 1, 1943. Mr. Earl Tucker (operating combine) said that he planted 30 acres this year and had never tried to grow a mung bean crop before. One field yielded 400 pounds per acre and average yield on the entire 30 acres ranges from 312 – 315 pounds per acre. The beans are following barley as destroyed by green bugs and Tucker says he will follow the beans with wheat for pasture. “I have heard much about the soil improving qua… more
Date: August 19, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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