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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of bindweed. The control of bindweed with a 2-4-D herbicide (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) showing nearly a perfect kill. Only a few sprigs of bindweed are showing. Sprayed with 2-4-D at the rate of ½ pound per acre once in 1954 and once in 1955. Dorsay Sparkman is in this picture. OK-341-1.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: Engelman, Jack E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of raking three windrows at one time behind combine preceeding baleing. This operation follows immediately after combining. The type of baler used requires a large windrow for efficient operation. This land is also used for pasture. The cattle were taken off on May 10 to allow time for the clover seed to mature. 40 pounds of cleaned seed per acre were harvested from this land.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grassland Utilization

Description: Photograph of a wind rower attachment to mower to windrow mixture of yellow hop clover, bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza so seed in yellow hop clover can be combined with pick-up attachment on combine. Windrower turns swath gently with minimum loss of seed. Note how bottom end of stems are turned out holding leaves unside for ideal curing of hay. Windrower and pick-up attachment on combine permit drying efficently and harvesting for seed. Ater combining of seed, grass and clover will be baled f… more
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Development

Description: Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Henry, Andy, and Phillip Roye, sons of owner, operating machine. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shallow Range Site

Description: Photograph of the Shallow Range Site. Clumps of bushes are wild plum, and skunkbrush sumac. Dominant grasses are sideoats grama and hairy grama, tall dropseed, little bluestem, with big bluestem and Indiangrass in deeper soil pockets. Legumes are sensitive briar, yellow neptunia, prairie clover, dalea. Other forbs (sp) are western ragweed and broomweed. Other woody plants are prickley pear and other cactus.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Residue Utilization

Description: Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.
Date: July 11, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Weeping Lovegrass at One Year

Description: Photograph of 60 acres of one year old planting of weeping lovegrass on 6w soil-Class 7 - in Bayou Watershed. Korean lespedenza has been overseeded and is up to a good stand. Kenneth B. Blan, Student Trainee, with SCS, in photo.
Date: July 11, 1959
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Residue Utilization

Description: Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.
Date: July 11, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Development

Description: Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five of these machines, privately owned, are in operation in the Haskell SCD.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Legume Rotation

Description: Photograph of Austrian winter peas growing in rotation with small grain. Nelson has been cooperating with the Washita County Soil Conservation District for several years. He stands between wheat and Austrian peas.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ladino Clover

Description: Photograph of Ladino clover planted, September 1944 at a rate of 5 pounds per acre, fertilized with 300 pounds phosphate per acre. Is being saved for seed. OK-9187.
Date: July 11, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of surplus wheat. Bountiful crop of 1958 in the Washita Soil Conservation District was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. All this crop was produced from land where good soil conservation practices are carried out. OK-708-5.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of brush control. Eldred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District [SCD] co-operator, makes a first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infested pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed and the grass left. OK-705-10.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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