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H. H. Finnell Collection
Papers, 1928-1954

Collection No. 75-001

Collection includes research findings, correspondence, publications, and photographs of Henry Howard Finnell (1894-1960), agronomist and erosion specialist. Subjects include soil conservation and the dust bowl.

Finnell graduated from OAMC (1917), was foreman of the OAMC Experiment Station (1917-1920), director of Panhandle A&M Experiment Station (1923-1934), and then worked as head of the Soil Conservation Service Dust Bowl experiment. A year later, President H. H. Bennett appointed Finnell head of the Region VI Soil Conservation Service, a dust bowl research program for the eleven great plain states. Finnell became known as "The Watchdog of the Dust Bowl." Finnell passed away in 1960.

Arranged alphabetically by subject and title of articles.

Photographs separated to collection 75-001.9

Access to this collection is unrestricted.

Gift of Finnell family, 1975

2.5 linear ft. (5 letter boxes, 1 oversize folder)

Special Collections and University Archives
Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Okla. 74078-1071

BOX 1
Folder:
  1. Articles by H.H. Finnell (A-G)
    • Can You Believe Half of What You See In the Dust Bowl?
    • Conservation Pays Off In the Plains Country
    • Conservation of the Southern Plains
    • Grass in the Critical Zone of Southern Plains Agriculture (2 copies)
    • Great Plains Region
  2. Articles by H.H. Finnell (H-Z)
    • How to Stop the Dust Storms
    • Is the Dust Bowl Coming Back?
    • Land Use Experience in Daiiam County, Texas, From Physical Land Surveys of 1936 and 1947
    • Land Use Experience in the Old Dust Bowl
    • Land Use Experience in Stevens and Seward Counties, Kansas From Physical Land Surveys of 1936 and 1947
    • Moisture Conservation and Land Use Studies in the Great Plains
    • Most Beneficial Wind Erosion Control Practices
    • The Other Half of Soil Conservation
    • Pity the Poor Land
    • Preview of Land Use Investigations (2 Copies)
    • Summary of Sorghum Land Studies
    • We Don't Want to Conquer the High Plains
  3. Biographical, ca. 1940-1949
  4. Conservation oration-outline, ca. 1940-45
  5. Correspondence. 1937, 1945-47, 1959
  6. Duties of Soil and Moisture Observer - Tentative, 1945
  7. Minutes of the Grass-Crop Rotation Conference, Stillwater, Ok, 1943
  8. Miscellaneous charts
  9. National Association of Soil Conservation Districts, Information Letter No. 5, Nov. 1947
  10. News, publication releases, 1937-1943
  11. Notes
  12. Publications. (A-C)
    • Audubon Magazine, Jan-Feb 1948
    • The Chemist Analyst, Sept. 1947
    • Conference on Conquering the "Dust Bowl", June 1940
    • Conservation Farming for the Hard Lands of the Southern Great Plains
    • Conservation and Land Use Investigations, May 1947, B-309
    • Crops Against the Wind on the Southern Great Plains, Farmers Bulletin No. 1833
  13. Publications. (D-E)
    • Depletion of High Plains Wheatlands Circular No. 871, June 1951.
    • Dust Storms Come From the Poorer Lands, Leaflet No. 260
    • The Dust Storms of 1948, Scientific American, August 1948
    • The Dust Storms of 1954, Scientific American, July 1954
    • The Economy of Soil Nitrogen Under Semiarid Conditions, Dec. 1933, B-215
    • The Effect of Wind Erosion and Cultivation on the
    • Total Nitrogen and Organic Matter Content of Soils in the Southern High Plains, Aug. 1936.
    • Effect of Wind on Plant Growth. by H.H. Finnell, Nov. 1928, Reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Agronomy
  14. Publications. (F)
    • Factors Affecting the Accumulation of Nitrate
    • Nitrogen in High Plains Soils, May 1932, B-203
    • Factors Affecting Yields of Winter Wheat Grain and
    • Forage in the Southern Great Plains, Oct. 1958, ARS 41-25
    • Factors Affecting Moisture-Storage Efficiency of
    • Dryfarming Areas in the Great Plains, PRR - 37
    • Fertility Losses From High Plains Soils Due to Wind Erosion, Panhandle Ag Exp Station, No. 63, Sept. 1937
  15. Publications. (L-M)
    • Land Facts on the Southern Plains, Misc. Pub. No. 334
    • Land Use Experience in Southern Great Plains, Oct. 1949, Circular No. 820
    • Methods of Reducing the Cost of Wheat Production
    • Can Low Priced Wheat Be Fed to Dairy Cows at a Profit? Panhandle Ag Exp Station, July 1931, No. 29
    • Moisture and Fertility Relations of Subsoil Variations in Heavy Silt Loam Soil at Goodwell, Oklahoma, Nov. 1933, B-214
    • The Moisture-Saving Efficiency of Level Terraces
    • Under Semi-Arid Conditions, Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, June 1930
  16. Publications. Miscellaneous
    • Trends, Dec. 4, 1947, Vol. 28, No. 11
    • Research Progress, Aug. 1942, No. 12
  17. Publications. (P-Pl)
    • Picture Illustration Showing the Conditions of the High Plains Area and the Work Being Done on Soil Conservation Service Project No.27
    • The Plowup of Western Grasslands and the Resultant Effect Upon Great Plains Agriculture
  18. Publications. (PRE)
    • Prevention and Control of Wind Erosion of High Plains Soils in the Panhandle Area (3 copies)
  19. Publication. (PRO)
    • Problem Areas in Region Six (Amarillo, Texas)
    • Differentiated on the Basis of Physical Environment, 1937
  20. Publications. (PRO-R)
    • Problem-Area Groups of Land in the Southern Great Plains
    • Red Plains Conservation Experiment Station Program from Seventeenth Annual Field Day
  21. Publications. (S-U)
    • Soil Moisture and Wheat Yields on the High Plains
    • Soil Murder on the Plains
    • Southern Great Plains Messenger Region 6, September 15, 1940
    • Southern Great Plains Messenger Region 6, October 15, 1940
    • Upkeep of Southern Great Plains Wheatlands
    • The Utilization of Moisture on Heavy Soils of the Southern Great Plains
  22. Publications. (V-W)
    • Vegetational Changes as a Result of Furrowing on Pasture and Range Lands
  23. Publications, List of
  24. Report on Dust Bowl Conditions, Nov. 1947-April 1948
  25. Speech given by Finnell at a Kiwanis Luncheon in Guymon, Ok, February 3, 1949. Subjects include fertility problems and moisture problems in agriculture.
  26. Facts about the Spur (Texas) Station. Includes crop yields averages, grassland percentages, storm water irrigation opportunities, and soils.
  27. Telephone Conversation. Finnell and Dean W.I. Blizzard (OAMC), August 26, 1947
  28. Topography, Soil Conditions-Colorado and Kansas, 1942

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    BOX 3
    Folder:

      Newspaper Clippings (photocopies)

    1. July-Sept. 1934
    2. Oct.-Nov. 1934
    3. Dec. 1934
    4. Jan.-April 1937
    5. 1938
    6. May-Dec.1937
    7. 1933-1936
    8. Jan.-May 1939
    9. June-Oct. 1939
    10. Nov.-Dec. 1939
    11. 1940-1941
    12. 1942

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    BOX 4
    Folder:

      Newspaper Clippings (photocopies)

    1. 1943-1944
    2. 1945
    3. 1946
    4. 1947
    5. 1948
    6. 1949
    7. 1950
    8. 1951-1952
    9. 1954
    10. 1955
    11. 1956-1957

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    BOX 5
    Folder:

      Newspaper Clippings

    1. Nov.-Dec. 1939
    2. 1940-1941
    3. 1942
    4. 1943-1944
    5. 1945
    6. 1946
    7. 1947
    8. 1948
    9. 1949
    10. 1950
    11. 1951-1952
    12. 1954
    13. 1955
    14. 1956-1957

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    BOX 6
    Folder:

      Newspaper Clippings

    1. 1933-1936
    2. July-Sept. 1934
    3. Oct.-Nov. 1934
    4. Dec. 1934
    5. May-Dec. 1937
    6. Jan.-April 1937
    7. 1938
    8. Jan.-May 1939
    9. June-Oct. 1939

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    Oversize Maps

    • Panhandle A&M College, Goodwell, Oklahoma.
    • Natural features of the region, n.d.
    • Soil Survey of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Spur, Texas, 1946

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    Articles

    1. "Dust Storms are Back," U.S. Camera Magazine, Oct. 1946
    2. "How Curved Furrows Save the Mud," The Northwestern Miller, Dec. 31, 1941
    3. "Land Where Our Children Die," Colliers, Sept. 18, 1937
    4. "The U.S. Dust Bowl," no magazine cited, n.d.
    5. "We are Plowing a New Dust Bowl," Colliers, Dec. 27, 1947

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    Photographs

    1. Aerial photographs, probably Texas panhandle
    2. Beaver dams, Wyoming 1944
    3. H.H. Bennett
    4. Cattle, sheep, Wyoming and Texas
    5. Clark County State Lake, Kingsdown, Kansas, 1940
    6. Crop examples
    7. Dalhart, Texas Soil Conservation Service project
    8. Dams, culverts
    9. Dust storms
    10. Farm implements
    11. Fields. Contour
    12. Fields. Cotton
    13. Fields. Grown cover
    14. Fields. Harvested
    15. Fields. Run-off water
    16. Fields. Strip planted
    17. H.H. Finnell and others
    18. Fishing on a creek
    19. Garden and woman
    20. Measurement of plants
    21. Miscellaneous
    22. Roadside planting
    23. Sand dunes, erosion
    24. Silage
    25. Wind erosion
    26. Picture Illustration...Conditions...High Plains, Dalhart, Texas, 1935. Photocopy

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