Photograph of Marvin Majors using a peanut digger that turns the vines upside down.

Photograph of Guar (Variety Mesa) being tested at Woodward Experiment Station. This deep rooted drought resistant legume may hold some promise as a catch crop in northwestern Oklahoma. More information is needed on harvesting and marketing the crop in this area. There is some indication it may furnish a good quality protein supplement in the feeding ration for livestock. It furnished little erosion resistance and in all probability will have to be grown in strips with erosion resistant crops. More information is needed on the residual effect due to depletion of subsoil moisture.

Photograph of Guar (Variety Mesa) being tested at Woodward Experiment Station. This deep rooted drought resistant legume may hold some promise as a catch crop in northwestern Oklahoma. More information is needed on harvesting and marketing the crop in this area. There is some indication it may furnish a good quality protein supplement in the feeding ration for livestock. It furnished little erosion resistance and in all probability will have to be grown in strips with erosion resistant crops. More information is needed on the residual effect due to depletion of subsoil moisture.

Photograph of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) selections being grown in native grass nursery at Woodward Experiment Station.

Photograph of Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) selections being grown in native grass nursery at Woodward Experiment Station.

Photograph of Mr. Tom Wright in his Caddo Switchgrass field.

Photograph of strip pits leveled for a mobile home park. From the Wagoner County Conservation District, from left to right: Ernest Snook, State Range Conservationist; Wes Thomas, Tulsa; Danny McCarty; Dem Robertson, DC, Wagoner. OK-4428-5.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-10.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-7.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-13.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4429-14.

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. OK-4429-8.

Photograph of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) selections being grown in native grass nursery at the Woodward Experiment Station. OK-163-10.

Photograph of a farmer cultivating a first year strawberry beds on Bodine stony lilt loam, 5 to 15% slopes.

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.

Photograph of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) selections being grown in a native grass nursery at the Woodward Experiment Station. OK-163-10.

Photograph of the city of Stilwell, OK, from the Davis Mountains. OK-1606-1.

Photograph of Indiangrass in a grass nursery at Woodward Experiment Station.

Photograph of an up-close shot of little bluestem taken as the seed is about ripe. The back of the photograph proclaims, "One plant of little bluestem taken as the seed is about rips. This plant was about three and a half feet tall."

Photograph of G. G. Goss on a tractor drilling cover and soil improving crop of vetch in a 26-acre pecan orchard. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling cover and soil improving crop of Vetch in a 26 acre Pecan Orchard. In the same operation, Goss is applying 100# super phosphate per acre. Nimrod Fine Sand."

Photograph of Orville Austin standing in a recently seeded field of hairy vetch and Balboa rye. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Combination planting of hairy vetch (20#) and Balboa rye (1 bu.) seeded with combination (16 disk, 7-inch spacing) drill with fertilizer and grass seeder attachments with 175 lbs. of superphosphate applied per acre at time of planting. This field was planted to hairy vetch and Balboa rye and seed crop was harvested in July 1942 with combine. The straw and stubble remained on the field until immediately before the present (1942) seeding. This field was prepared for the 1942 seeding going over the field three times with a tandem disk and tractor followed with two times over 6 ½ ft. field cultivator attached to the tractor, followed by one time over with tandem disk before planting with the above combination fertilizer, disk, and grain drill and seeded on September 17, 1942."

Photograph of a Wildlife Habitat area seeded in 1959 to lespedeza, weeping lovegrass, sand love, Indian and little bluestem, swtich.

Photograph of north side of wildlife area planting looking SE across planting. Bi-color Lespedeza and Catalpa.

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.