Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burson was born in Washita county, educated in the schools of the county and Hills Business College, Oklahoma City."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Airplane skeleton is all that remains in the wake of a four-fatality crash near Colony, Okla., late Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "R.J. Wesner"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Top Students in cordell high school graduating class are Ken Wesner, Valedictoria, and Reba Hicks, salutorian."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lt. Col. Warren C. Stirling, Clinton-Sherman, AFB, turns the first shoveful of earth to begin a 450 unit housing project on the base."

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.

Photograph of Kidred Sasseen, Chairman of the Washita County Soil Conservation District, shows shrub oak and skunk brush in his pasture. OK-705-8.

Photograph of an unnecessary gully. Two diversion terraces have been constructed on this farm, above the gully, to divert the water to a safe spill area in the pasture. The gully will be closed up and the terraces constructed across it. OK-672-3.

Photograph of creek channel erosion. Erosion on the stream bank due to overflow and irregular route of the creek channel. Detention reservoir site # 20, Cavalry Creek watershed, is on the next farm above this. Banks plans to straighten creek for better stream bank stabilization and increase tillable acres. OK-672-5.

Photograph of native grasses that are properly managed on the Troy Maddox farm. Maddox says having more grass in his pasture than he needs is good security. He buys when the market is down and sells when the market is up because he always has plenty of grass. Its moisture is adequate; he always has plenty of small grain pasture also. OK-776-2.

Photograph of brush control. Eldred Sasseen, Chair of the Washita County Soil Conservation District [SCD], shows shrub oak and skunk brush on his pasture. OK-705-8.

Photograph of brush control. Rotary brush mower being used to clear large brush. Eldred Sasseen exhibits the size of brush the mower cuts. OK-705-11.

Photograph of a 1958 surplus wheat crop from the Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators to hold and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. An UNIDENTIFIED individual is using a tractor to push the wheat. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bountiful crop of 1958 in Washita County Soil Conservation District that was too much for local elevators and 250,000 bushels had to be piled on the ground. This entire crop was produced from land where good soil conservation practices are carried out."

Photograph of a line of trucks waiting to unload their wheat payload into an elevator located in Cordell. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wheat harvest. Wheat trucking waiting to be unloaded into Cordell elevator. Wheat yields have been good in county since adoption of conservation practices such as terraces, waterways, legume rotation, and crop residue management."

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men on bulldozers constructing a dam on the Ed Kiehn farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Dam under construction on Ed Kiehn farm."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man kneeling in a field consisting of sideoats grama grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Side oats [sic] grama grass on the Sasseen Ranch. This grass was planted in cotton stalks with the Washita County Soil Conservation District grass drill. The planting is four years old. Sasseen has received good grazing the past 2 years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There's something sheepish about this Southdown wether lamb from the purebred flock of Stanley Simon, right, Sentinel FFA member, because it will be one of 100 in four breeds to be sold Friday at Sentinel in the second annual lamb and sheep sale sponsored by the chamber of commerce and FFA chapter. Herbert Tustison, vocational agriculture teacher, is left."

Photograph of a one-sweep stubble mulch plow with 8" wing. Plow is hydraulic controlled.

Photograph of Augie Sewell, Washita County SCD supervisor and Darwin Craig, Cordell Sportsman Club receive fish from the Oklahoma Fish Hatchery delivery truck to be taken to floodwater retarding structures on Cavalary Creek watershed.

Photograph of Austrian winter peas are used for legume rotation. Nelson, in photo, practices complete soil conservation program of legume rotation, terraces, waterays, and crop residue management.

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.

Photograph of a stubble mulch tillage plow with three sweeps. Plow is hydrolically controlled. OK-692-8.

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.