Photograph of wild turkeys on feeding ground with deer in background on Edwin Sawyer ranch, 15 miles southwest of Sonora, Texas. Turkeys are fed corn or milo each afternoon during the winter and spring. Feeding not only supplements the natural winter diet, but helps to keep the turkeys from migrating.

Photograph of the harvesting of 35 acres of King Ranch bluestem grass on the A. E. Bryant farm /ranch. A combine with a spike-tooth cylinder was used. Two days were required to harvest the grass. Mr. Bryant estimates he harvested 1500 pounds of clean seed. Planting was made in the spring of 1947. A good seed crop was harvested in June, a light crop in July and a good yield will be harvested in October. From 2 harvests in 1948 a total of 2500 pounds of seed were harvested. Mr. Bryant needs the following adjustments on his combine for harvesting the crop: the cylinder set at a speed of 1080 rpm; the header set high [unclear] off the air; a ¼ to 3/8 inch clearance on the cylinder; and the reel set forward and down. This is a perennial grass that appears to have a wide adaptation as to soil & rainfall. Note that the grass is waist-high. Planted in 3 feet rows (105 pounds on 35 acres). It has been kept in rows as row plantings tend to yield more than drilled plantings. Bryant has obtained good results by [unclear] dressing this grass with 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate …

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board chairman Olean (left) and Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician Albert T. Jordan (right) inspect a strand of cotton planted where guar was grown last year. Cotton planted as two rows in and one out. At left is cotton following cotton. Practically no cotton will be harvested around here this year because of drought. I 2 RR. TX-48, 201.

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board Chairman Olson (left) and Soil Conservation Service technician, Albert T. Jordan [right] standing in a field of cotton following cotton. Drought has ruined this cotton, planted 2 in and 2 out following. In the background in the 10-acre field of cotton planted 2 in and 1 out following soil-improving guar. I 2 RR. TX-48, 204.

Photograph of supplemental pasture and cover crop of rye on the Blackwell brothers’ farm. Crop was fertilized with 150 pounds per acre of 4-12-4 fertilizer. The field is completely terraced and was covered in Sudan grass last year. When the Blackwell brothers bought this farm, this field was too severely depleted to grow a crop. TX-41, 394

Photograph of a close-up detail of individual plants in the excellent composition on normal upland site. The predominantly tall plants, starting at the left, are tall dropseed, a single stalk of sideoats grama, a large clump of little bluestem, and, the plume-like one toward the right, Indian grass. See TX-43, 965A for the percentage composition of the grasses on this site. TX-43, 965B.

Photograph of a view of part of Mr. Leslie Harris’ 280 acres of terraced land. The strips of sorghum and wheat run from terrace to terrace. Vetch grew last year on the strips from season to season. These are channel type terraces and they empty into a an alfalfa waterway (running across the picture in the center). The sorghum will be combined leaving the stubble on the strips. See TX-47, 218 and 47, 219. TX-47-217.

Photograph of Soil Conservation District [SCD] Board Chairman Olson (left) and Soil Conservation Service technician, Albert T. Jordan [right] standing in a field of cotton following cotton. Drought has ruined this cotton, planted 2 in and 2 out following. In the background in the 10-acre field of cotton planted 2 in and 1 out following soil-improving guar. I 2 RR. TX-48, 205.

Photograph of close up of grasses [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 968.

Photograph of representative erosion damage in this section from a heavy rain, approximate a 1 inch accumulation on May 9, 1947. Silting and washing in this 35 acre cornfield have destroyed conservatively 12 to 18 percent of the corn and cotton crop. Corn and cotton was cultivated up and down rows and dozens of small washes 3 to 25 feet wide have covered the young plants completely with silt. Erosion control methods, properly established, would have reduced the damage to less than 1%. Class II land in foreground; Class III in the background. Soil is a Houston blank clay; slope 2% to 4%; erosion 11 and 111. TX-43, 659.

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of grasses and other plants [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of Clinton Harbers’ Bermuda grass. Clinton Harbers is talking about his coastal Bermuda grass that lies on a rather sandy part of his farm. From left to right: Fred Case; Samuel Hertha; Dick Marshall; Clinton Harbers; D. G. Craig; Mabry Milhollin and Bob Aicher. TX-308-12.

Photograph of a plow pan, showing a close up view showing the plow pan left by the sweep when cover crop was cut loose. TX-309-12.