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5000th GP Contract in Okla

Description: Photograph of the Board of Directors of Beaver county reviewing the 5000th Great Plains Contract of Oklahoma. Left to right; Charles Custer, Member, Glen Myers, Member, Raymond Watson, Vice-Chairman, John T. Riley, Jr., DC, SCS, J.S. Shaffer, Chairman, Jimmie Cole, Secretary-Treasurer.
Date: June 11, 1971
Creator: Searcy, William R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation Planning

Description: Photograph of the Conservation Tillage Jamboree, Enid Oklahoma. Showing Edward Rohrer recalling personal experience as a wheat farmer concerning conservation tillage. OK-2826-5.
Date: July 11, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of contour cultivation on terraced field. Hegari and Red Top sorghum shocked with second growth showing wall. Terrace on the right is drilled on a countour to small grain. Terraces constructed in 1939 empty into Bermuda pasture. OK-8284.
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cover Crops

Description: Photograph of Lee Brown, operator, is plowing under mature cover of rye after it has been grazed about 5 months by livestock. Knie uses this field, approximately 100 acres of Class I, II, and III land, exclusively for grazing. He says the cattle gained about 2 lbs. per day and this utilization of the land produces considerable more than harvest crops by machine.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an Armistice Day parade of 1934 in Stillwater, Oklahoma feature Soil Conservation Service. First [unclear] for the Civilian Conservation Corps personne.
Date: November 11, 1934
Creator: Hollopeter, Chas A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph showing a rear view of a 30 inch sweep machine. This machine is a Dampster No. 101 which has been worked over by the station. The sweeps are Ra-dex made by I. F. Reed at the Alabama machinery laboratory. TX-45, 883.
Date: August 11, 1945
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of Don Fulton, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Work Unit Conservationist of Ozona, Texas, shows the depth of the pits on rangeland. The pits were made with two discs on a one-way disc plow with about 3 inches cut off on one side of the discs. It was pulled with a jeep. The pits are about 3 inches deep and 4 to 5 feet long. TX-48-433.
Date: March 11, 1953
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an Armistice Day** parade of 1934 in Stillwater, Oklahoma featuring Soil Conservation Service heavy farming equipment. **in the US, this became Veterans Day starting in 1954.
Date: November 11, 1934
Creator: Hollopeter, Chas A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fish

Description: Photograph of a close up of 5 to 5" fingerling catfish being placed in 7 acre fish pond on Rudolph McGeehee farm.
Date: April 11, 1968
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fish Transport

Description: Photograph of fingerling fish-channel and blue cat being transported though a 4" pipe from carrying tank ot growing pond. Approximately 14,000-wt. 180#.
Date: April 11, 1968
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fort Sill Conservation Planning

Description: Photograph of training area for track vehicles, denuded of vegetation. Source of significant downstream silt pollution. Silt trap basin recommended. East Range-South of Shouth Boundary Road (East).
Date: April 11, 1968
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fort Sill Conservation Planning

Description: Photograph of trees and brush growing in roadside4 burrow area. To facilitate maintenance and proper function of the drainage way, trees and brush should be removed. Near west end of south boundary road (east).
Date: April 11, 1968
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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