Photograph of 19 acre seeding of weeping love grass on an old cultivated field for pasture. Seeded in 1941 in rows andcultivated. Seeds were harvested this year [1942]. OK-8456.

Photograph of a grass drill, rear view with press wheel gang removed. OK-8350.

Photograph of rows 9 to 16 in sand bluestem breeding nursery. OK-8375.

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-N.

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-D.

Photograph of two strains of Blue Grama grasses in breeding nursery. On the left, from Flagstaff, Arizona and the right, from Lovington, New Mexico. OK-8370.

Photograph of sideoats grama grass selection with compressed spikelets. OK-8373.

Photograph of Paspalum stramineum (left), Woodward strain and (Chickasha and Rush Springs, Oklahoma strain, (right) according to No 0-1358, in an observational nursery. Middle rows harvested for hay yields. OK-8378.

Photograph of different strains of sideoats grama grass in a breeding nursery. Left: Selection #438 open-pollenated. Center left: Selection #438 self-pollenated. Center right: Selection #439 self-pollenated. Right: Selection #439 self-pollenated OK-8372.

Photograph of eragrostis trichodes [i.e., Sand Love Grass, from Woodward (center); from Stillwater (left); and from Manhattan, Kansas (right) in an observational nursery. OK-8381.

Photograph of grasses. Weeping Love Grass (Eragrostis cruvula) in a cultivation study. Note the rows to the right of the white stick and the broadcast to the left of this. The area was seeded in April, 1939, on Chickasha fine sandy loam soil. # 340.

Photograph of eragrostis curvula (weeping lovegrass) in an observational nursery in Woodward, OK. Seeded in April, 1941. Note the dead plant at the start of the two rows on the right. Some loss of [unclear] common at this location. OK-8394.

Photograph of road bed sloughing off into gully caused by excessive run-off from adjoining cultivated fields. Conservation farming methods would have prevented this. OK-8450.

Photograph of a view looking up a concrete spillway and across the spillway crest showing the rocky point in the background--which affects the entrance condition. OK-8439.

Photograph of Weeping Love Grass in a two acre field set out by A. H. Legako on May 2, 1942. Seedling plants were obtained from the Soil Conservation Service Land Utilization Project at Muskogee, OK. The seed crop was combined on 1942-07-08. and 26 pounds of recleaned seed were obtained on 1942-10-10. A hay crop might have been cut but Mr. Legako preferred to leave the grass blades on the ground for winter protection of the rocks. OK-8426.

Photograph of side-oats grama grass in the U. S. Field Station nursery.

Photograph of blue grama grass, in the U. S. Field Station nursery, from Mexican Springs, NM.

Photograph of Kermit Whitehead, son of land owner W. R. Whitehead, examining corn.

Photograph of W. A. Hayes with his corn crop.

Photograph of fertilized cotton.

Photograph of A. R. Jackson holding Crotalaria.

Photograph of little bluestem at the Red Plains Experiment Station. The bluestem was established in the spring of 1940 by 1500 pounds per acre seed-hay mulch. An effort has been made to thresh the seed from material by a small Allis-Chalmers combine. The hay contained considerable moisture, thus the threshed material contained considerable seed. Application was made broadcast on badly eroded sandy loam soil which had previously been cropped to cotton and grain sorghum. After spreading, the material was immediately rolled with a cultipacker. OK-8713.

Photograph of W. A. Seney standing in front of a recently harvested peanut field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mr. Seney standing in field from which peanuts have just been pulled and stacked. A winter cover crop of rye grass has been harrowed in by Mr. Seney, which will be pastured until spring and then plowed under as a green manure crop. Field is contour tilled and terraced. Mr. Seney said he expected the peanuts to average 50 bushels per acre—the best peanut crop he has made."

Photograph of the harvesting of buffalo grass seed with a small power-driven sickle-type mover with a pan attachment. OK-8383.