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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

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
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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

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a close-up of a typical section of range that has been cleared of blackjack timber and seeded to a mixture of native tall grasses in 1955. The brush on the land was aerial sprayed with 2-4-5T at the rate of 2 pounds per acre in May of 1958. This range has been controlled grazed to allow the grasses to become established. OK-624-3.
Date: July 11, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of Kidred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District cooperator, makes the first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infected pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed with 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

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

Newly Set Coastal Bermuda

Description: Photograph of newly set Coastal Bermuda. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows made by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958.
Date: May 11, 1958
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crater Eight Feet Deep is searched by air policemen and rescue workers after a B-52 bomber crashed in a cotton field six miles north of Altus."
Date: December 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Students Are Hurt in Crash, NORMAN-- two University of Oklahoma students were injured, neither critically, in a one-car crash near fraternity row early Friday. Norman police said the driver, Thomas Kanard, Muskogee, Student, was driving south on Elm street about 1 a.m. when the crash missed a curve, bounced over a curb, and rolled 185 feet across an open field before landing upside down. Injured were Pat Smith, 18,… more
Date: December 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0842]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BRUISED AND DAZED, John White, 24, peers from the crushed cab of his truck in Miami where he was trapped for an hour. White said that the lumber shifted forward when his brakes locked."
Date: September 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1121]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Alice Chesher, 2801 Pembroke terr. --Honesty, fair play and a will to work are the things I expect of students. They're the same things I try to give the students. As a Christian, I feel it's my obligation to help students who don't have these qualities while they can still be called youngsters, because when they leave high school they will be counted as adults."
Date: December 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1225]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Secretaries play an important part in any phase of the business field. Their duties are many, though most people believe that their work consists mostly of taking dictation and typing letters. There are many things involved in being a secretary depending on the type of business with which they are associated. Airman 2/c Felicia Chestnut handles correspondence for flight operations in the 33rd air division at Tinker Air For… more
Date: April 11, 1958
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0133]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A radio station consulting engineer was burned on both hands early Friday when he attempted to change a tube in a transmitter at radio station KBYE, 5508 N Eastern."
Date: April 11, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0120.0118]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Thieves who looted an Oklahoma City firm of more than $600 in firearms Sunday night had the manager mad in more than one way Monday."
Date: August 11, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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