Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.

Photograph of Waterway under construction on the Margaret Shuman land in the Ditch Valley community. This waterway will carry water from 1,000 acres of drainage.

Photograph of sorghum sown in a stubble mulch after one operation with a Noble plow.

Photograph of cattle grazing on a properly managed range. February calves creep-fed oats weighing 600 lbs. by September.

Photograph of sand dunes that wee at one time active becoming stabilized by giant reed bluestem grass.

Photograph of Tick Clover along margin of blackjack timber growing in borrow ditch. This Tick clover is a wild legume and is doing well along the roadside.

Photograph of planting maize on land that has been leveled and is to be irrigated.

Photograph of Midland bermuda grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954, pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasxture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.

Photograph of irrigating small grains by using gated pipe and corrugated rows.

Photograph of an 8" pipe leading water from the riser connected to 12" concrete pipe below.

Photograph of SCS Tech. Clarence E. Stith checks growth of biennial yellow sweet clover. Stith planted the clover in the spring of 1952 in this 20 acre wheat field solely to improve the soil, the deep roots opening up the soil for the free circulation of air and water. He also uses hairy vetch turned in to add organic matter. To follow clover with wheat for 4 or 5 years.

Photograph of Stubble Mulch Tillage. First time over the tillage with a sweep plow. OK-1693-6.

Photograph of Carey silt loam profile. Note the compound columnar structure and the accumulation of caliche. The A1 horizon is about 12 inches thick, the B2 and B3 are about 2 ½ feet thick and the C ca [ca = pedogenic carbonates = carbonic acids that can that modify soil constituents] horizon extend below this. Entire picture covers 6½ feet of depth, typical of much of Carey soils in Harper County, transported by alluvial-colluvial forces from nearby hills and a weak B horizon has formed in places. Some soils are moderately permeable. OK-304-4.

Photograph of a good stand of wheat is present in this field where all tillage operations were performed with sweeps.

Photograph of the head gate of a diversion dam, for irrigation, across Buffalo Creek on Ed George's farm.

Photograph of where the diversion dam will be constructed across the Cimarron River for the Settlers Irrigation Ditch.

Photograph of the main supply ditch for the irrigation of farm land. Water is carried approximately one mile by diversion dam across Buffalo Creek. OK-8113.

Photograph of stubble mulching on wheat land. One time over with the Noble blade.

Photograph of a district-owned native grass seed drill. The drill is an 8-foot combonation seeder equiped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill. OK-133-4.

Photograph of bindweed in bloom. OK-342-1.

Photograph of a crawler-pulling brush chopper. This picture shows sunflower and cockle burr on the bottom pasture land being controlled by a brush chopper. The chopper measure 32 feet wide. OK-101-5.

Photograph of the installation of a 12" underground concrete pipe to furnish water to leveled field to be irrigated by flooding.

Photograph of (L-R): R.A. Lotspeich and Orvin Shuman, (Harper County farmers) and County Commissioner Oden Sheppard shown at the inlet of two large culverts installed under new farm-to-market road in Harper County. Culverts will be utilized to carry overhead water in the Ditch Valley Irrigation project.

Photograph of Harper County Commissioner Oden Sheppard (left), Ditch Valley Irrigation Company President Laurence Drake, and DC Clarence Stith (right) discuss operaton of irrigation water management system designed to protect new farm-to-market road in Harper County.