Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheep graze in the yard of an abandoned farmhouse off SH 81 in Jefferson County, near the town of Ryan."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The cost of replacement of the auditorium and gymnasium destoyed in the apparent arson of the old Waurika elementary school."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In House District 49, incumbent W. D. Bradley faces another Democrat in this year's election."

Photograph of land maintenance and brush control. A brush control tour with several agencies participating. This stop was made to show the effects of plowing mesquite and cactus. OK-2902-6.

Photograph of mesquite control by aerial application. OK-2883-16.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There is not much Charles R. Taber doesn't know about weather in the Waurika area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looking east through intersection down U . S. 70 , this view shows wide, deadly expanse of the corner which has killed two and injured 13..."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. J. Redford, vocational agriculture instructor at Waurika High School, is watching every step of construction on the $25,000 building being erected for his department."

Photograph of grass land near Ryan, Oklahoma. A typical landscape. Deep sand range site, fair condition, Minco fine sandy loam soil type. Principal forage species are little bluestem, sideoats grama, tall dropseed, Scribner’s panicum. Non forage plants are sandage, gaura, spp. [Latin = species pluralis: “multiple species”], doze-daisy; yucca-woody species are sand plum and prickly ash. OK-1466-1.

Photograph of grasses. A field that has been out of cultivation for 10 years. No grass was planted but was seeded naturally [i.e., letting the grass grow enough to germinate flowers that produce the seeds or where it produces side shoots either above or below the soil]. In good condition. The pasture has been well-managed. Loamy Prairie site. OK-1173-4.

Photograph of King Ranch Bluestem planting in the spring of 1951. An annual average of 3000 pounds of seed are gathered from this 100 acre planting. L. C. Haskins, Jefferson County SCD Mgr. , Bob Price, and Hank Bradley inspecting grass and explaining the growth and use of grass to young Bradley. This grass was planted on old depleted cropland as a proper land use practice as recommended by SCS. For fertilizer, this 100 acre field received 45 tons of raw rock phosphate in 1949, 6 tons 33% ammonium nitrate n 1956.

Photograph of cattle coming in for water in farm pond. This pond has been fenced into 2 sections so it may be used by cattle in both pastures of a 2 pasture grazing rotation system. In addition to native grass the cattle on this range get 5 pounds of cake per day. Steers are brought in and fed out in addition to the steers raised from the basic heard.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Waurika friends of Kay L. Scott believe that if horses had feathers he would have been a rancher."