Photograph of the Seiling livestock auction in operation.

Photograph of the Vici Oklahoma Co-Op elevator with railway box cars in foreground being used to ship wheat.

Photograph of channel type terraces constructed in 1951. These are closed terraces. Note the water held by the terraces on the morning after 2 inch rain and hail storm with a small tornado. This field has been placed in the Acreage Reserve program. This land will be summer fallowed and will be drilled to wheat for the fall of 1958.

Photograph of irrigated Caddo Switchgrass planted for seed production. This is a selection out of native switch grass. It is excellent for hay, pasture and seed production.

Photograph of freshly weaned calves grazing on native range of blue grama and side oats grama. Calves weighed 550 to 600 pounds at weaning time. Mr. Kouns has seeded over 100 acres of native grass on this 1/2 section. Seed harvested from sweet clover and native grass have more than paid for the land. Some gullies on this ranch were so bad that they could not be crossed with a truck, but now it is possible to drive over any part of the ranch in an automobile. This condition has been changed by establishing and maintaining a good grass cover which controlled the erosion and kept the top soil in the gullies. All of this ranch is under a conservation plan.

Photograph of aerial view of floodwater retarding structure No. 35. Completed Feb 1955. Drainage 1,845 A. C. , ediment Storage 1. 88 in. , Flood Storage 3. 35 in. , Total Storage 804. 8 Ac. Ft. , Surface 67 Ac.

Photograph of Charles Grimes, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], and Henry and Duane Harrell examining a watering facility. OK-3170-11.

Photograph of Henry and Duane Harrell and ranchhands examining a watering facility. OK-3170-12.

Photograph of Youth Range Camp plant identification. OK-3169-1.

Photograph of L to R: 1. Matt Sooter, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; 2. Dick Childs, Pasture Spec., OSU, Stillwater; 3. Jack Bohl, WUC, SCS, Hammon, OK; 4. Bob Green, Rancher, Elk City, OK; 5. Harman Seymour, Ext. Director, Cheyenne, OK; 6. Charles Grimes, Range Consv., SCS, Waurika, OK; 7. C.E. Kingery, Range Consv., SCS, Stillwater, OK; 8. Tom Perryman, WUC, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; Emmett McCord, Ext. Range Spec., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 9. Dr. Wilfred McMurphy, Agronomy Dept., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 10. O.H. Lowry, WUC, SCS, Sayre, OK; 11. B.P. Prickett, WUC, SCS, Clinton, OK. OK-2872-10.

Photograph of sand bluestem (KG-1156-53 1949 Curtis). Sown on April 27, 1955 in the spillway of Site # 3 on Barnitz Creek Watershed. It is now excellent cover and is around 3 feet tall at the present time. OK-394-11.

Photograph of rangeland with overfall measuring 15 feet deep and 50 feet across, top advancing upstream; watershed is 320 acres. OK-1097-10.

Photograph of native grass mixture planting. This was planted in April, 1957 on soil unit # 7, capability III. A seed crop was cut soon after this photo was taken. OK-786-2.

Photograph of cattle grazing in a newly reseeded pasture.

Photograph of a snow scene of range land showing grazing condition during snow periods.

Photograph of the loamy prairie and shallow prairie range sites. Quinlin-Woodward loams.

Photograph of wheat stacked on the ground. The Taloga grain elevator is in the background.

Photograph of a native grass mixture planting. This was planted in April 1957 on soil unit 7, capability III. A seed crop was cut soon after this photo was taken. L.O. Widney in photo.

Photograph of combines transferring wheat to a truck. 40 bu. Per acre wheat yield on Abiline clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes.

Photograph of a wheat harvest scene, combine in foreground is transferring wheat to a truck. Other combines can be seen cutting wheat in background.

Photograph of Quinlan soils on a shallow range site in good condition. This is Class VI land.

Photograph of the Sandy prairie range site. Enterprise fine sandy loam.

Photograph of St. Paul silt loam at site where characterization sample for the series was taken.

Photograph of Graden Teeters, a District Supervisor, looking at the growth of weeping love grass planted for crop rotation as seeded in April 1955. OK-98-3