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Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of diversion terraces. Newly constructed diversion terrace. The terrace carries the water to a farm pond. Yahola fine sandy loam soil. OK-1471-8.
Date: October 5, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of OK's 1500th structure, Site # 34, Finn Creek. Workmen for the Holtzen Construction Company compact sand in trench used for foundation drain. OK-4287-4.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock (and Grasses)

Description: Photograph of stream bank improvement. Brush was cleared from the area, with pecan trees left standing. Stream banks were shaped and area sprigged to bermuda grass in the spring of 1961. OK-1471-10.
Date: October 5, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of Maysville Lateral Site, B3. An aerial view from the west looking east over F. P. site # 3. The City of Maysville lies in the background. This site furnishes protection to the City of Maysville. Site constructed in 1971. OK-3734-13.
Date: October 14, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of aerial view of Site 34, Finn Creek watershed project, located north of Maysville. The lake is Oklahoma's 1500th flood control structure and was dedicated as Wiley Post Memorial Lake on Oct. 22, 1971. OK-4448-2.
Date: October 14, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Native Grass In Area Sprayed for Oak Brush Control

Description: Photograph of a close-up shot of native grass in area sprayed for oak brush control. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Native grass in area sprayed for oak brush control, in 1957 and again in 1958. Large plants of little bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, and big bluestem made seed in fall of 1957. Small grass plants are seedlings of above grasses. Deferred grazing has made it possible for rapid range improvement following spray jobs."
Date: July 1, 1958
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Damaged Rush Creek & US Highway 77 Bridge and Flooded Pauls Valley

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of Rush Creek & US Highway 77 Bridge damaged by floodwaters. The nearby city, Pauls Valley, was also flooded. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bridge (on river) on reenforced [sic] concrete piles was overtopped by flood water. Several of the piling failed by shifting downstream."
Date: May 18, 1950
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Improved Bermudagrass and Vetch Pasture

Description: Photograph of Homer Dacus, Cooperator and Leo Dowling, SCS, examining Bermudagrass over seeded with vetch. The photo does not clarify the position of Leo Dowling and Homer Dacus. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermudagrass overseeded with Vetch."
Date: October 1967
Creator: Dowling, Leo E.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Class Studying Seined Undesirable Fish on State Farm

Description: Photograph of roughly fifteen UNIDENTIFED individuals studying seined undesirable fish from the Area VIII Farm Pond Fisheries Management School held by Herb Wells, State Biologist, on State Farm south of Pauls Valley. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Area VIII Farm Pond Fisheries Management School held by Herb Wells, State Biologist. This pond on State Farm, south of Pauls Valley, was seined and undesirable fish were studied."
Date: September 28, 1955
Creator: Graham, L. O.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvey Jinks With A Herd of Cattle on Tame Pasture

Description: Photograph of Harvey Jinks standing with a grade herd of beef cattle on tame pasture, which consists of a mixture of Kentucky 31 Fescue grass, Ladino clover, and Korean Lespedeza. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Tame Pastures. Harvey Jinks of Stratford, Oklahoma showing a grade herd of beef cattle grazing on a tame pasture mixture of Kentucky 31 Fescue grass, Ladino clover and Korean Lespedeza."
Date: July 1955
Creator: Lowe, Sam D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Biennial Sweetclover Root

Description: Photograph of a succulent root of what appears to be a biennial sweetclover growing in a field near Lindsay. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Succulent root of what appears to be a biennial sweetclover. This vigorous plant was growing in a field near Lindsay, Oklahoma."
Date: 1949~
Creator: Davis, David O.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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