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Bermuda Spot Sodded on Pasture Contours

Description: Photograph of a field consisting of Bermuda, needle grass, and ragweed. Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours and will spread and completely cover the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours. All the other vegetation in the pasture consists of needle grass and ragweed's. The Bermuda will spread and in time completely cover the pasture, making it a great deal better than it was before the contours were built and the Bermuda started. To be followe… more
Date: December 7, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Spot Sodded on Pasture Contours

Description: Photograph of a field consisting of Bermuda, needle grass, and ragweed. Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours and will spread and completely cover the pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda spot sodded on pasture contours. All the other vegetation in the pasture consists of needle grass and ragweed's. The Bermuda will spread and in time completely cover the pasture, making it a great deal better than it was before the contours were built and the Bermuda started. To be followe… more
Date: December 7, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Corn Planting

Description: Photograph of farmer cultivating young corn wich was planted up and down the slope. Note gullies running parallet to farming lines.
Date: May 7, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFIED Farmer Cultivating Corn Field/Muskogee Project/Boley Camp

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED farmer with two horses cultivating corn next to a long gully running parallel to the field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Photo shows negro farmer cultivating young corn which was planted up and down the slope. Note gullies running parallel to farming lines."
Date: May 7, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Konawa Camp

Description: Photograph of a banquet following a field tour through the Konawa CCC Camp work area. Banquet was prepared and served in the camp mess hall. OK-6630.
Date: July 7, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Vetch and Oats Combination Planting in Apple Orchard Next to Highway #71

Description: Photograph of the combination planting of oats and vetch in an apple orchard in Lowell, next to Highway #71. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of vetch and oats in apple orchard. Cover crop has been cut into the soil with tractor and double disk to serve as a mulch in the orchard. A common practice over a number of years in this orchard. Growth of vetch and oats in the foreground was left unplowed and serves as a border strip along the highway. This strip helps to show… more
Date: May 7, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of increased beef production through the retirement of upland cultivated land to Bermuda grass pasture as reported by Mr. R. L. Simpson, Jr. of Eufaula, Oklahoma. 25 Aberdeen Angus cattle grazed on 26 acres of this Bermuda pasture from early spring until late fall. In March or April, 1940, pasture was sodded and then 350 pounds of 20% superphosphate fertilizer per acre was spread, then overseeded to lespedeza in 1941 and then to yellow hops and bur clovers in the fall of 1942. 14 acr… more
Date: October 7, 1942
Creator: Webb, C. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Orville Austin Seed Plot of Hairy Vetch and Balboa Rye

Description: Photograph of Orville Austin standing in a recently seeded field of hairy vetch and Balboa rye. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of hairy vetch (20#) and Balboa rye (1 bu.) seeded with combination (16 disk, 7-inch spacing) drill with fertilizer and grass seeder attachments with 175 lbs. of superphosphate applied per acre at time of planting. This field was planted to hairy vetch and Balboa rye and seed crop was harvested in July 1942 with combine. The straw and stubbl… more
Date: October 7, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

G. G. Gross Cover Drilling and Vetch Plowing in Pecan Orchard

Description: Photograph of G. G. Goss on a tractor drilling cover and soil improving crop of vetch in a 26-acre pecan orchard. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling cover and soil improving crop of Vetch in a 26 acre Pecan Orchard. In the same operation, Goss is applying 100# super phosphate per acre. Nimrod Fine Sand."
Date: October 7, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hairy Vetch and Rye Cover and Soil Improvement

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man kneeling in a field with significant cover and soil improvement six miles north of DeLeon. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cover and soil Improvement. Left, mixed planting of hairy vetch and rye following cow peas, and right, following corn. (See Tex-41-375 and Tex-41-376.)"
Date: March 7, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of E.S. Cordell, work unit leader, Soil Conservation Service, Hugo, Oklahoma and Mrs. Laura C. Pickens, land owner. Featuring crop rotation and soil improvement. Two rows of corn and one row of peas. OK-8788.
Date: July 7, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a homemade fertilizer distributor upon a corn planter as made by Collin Johnson, in the photo. The distributor is made from scrap metal, old bicycle chain and sprockets. The apparatus permits simultaneous planting and fertilizing and may readily be removed from the planter. ok-8767.
Date: July 7, 1944
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 Hatcher brothers’ ranch showing one of the registered Hereford bulls, a part of the herd of 100 registered cows that according to Joe Hatcher “grazed 140 acres of rye and sweet clover for 90 days and in the process gained in weight on an average 2 pounds per cow per day.” OK-8872.
Date: September 7, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hereford Improvement

Description: Photograph of some of the 100 registered Herefords that according to Joe Hatcher "grazed 140 acres of rye and sweetclover for 90 days and in the process gained in weight on an average of 2 lbs. per cow per day.
Date: September 7, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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