Photograph of Dan Robertson, DC at Wagoner, foreground; and Sonny Parker of Porter placing channel catfish in cage for rearing.

Photograph of fish population being made by Biologist of Okla. Wildlife Comm. [Oklahoma Wildlife Commission], as part of an overall plan developed by SCS technicians.

Photograph of the construction site of a manure pit on the Are Froese Farm. Tank is 30' diameter x 10' deed when finished. The pit was excavated with bulldozer.

Photograph of Jerome Sykora pointng out the features of these Catfish hatching pens to Myron Hurd. These pens are on the Moore Fish Farm near Claremore. The Moores have shifted their operations from market type Channel Catfish to fingerlings.

Photograph of Randy Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Moore of Moore Fish Farm in Inola. Randy is holding two fish, the larger one produced from fingerlings of the same size of the smaller fish shown. The fish were on full feed in cages and fed for 180 days.

Photograph of channel catfish lost to a protozoan parasite infestation.

Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.

Photograph of two purebred Hereford calves which Clem McSpadden, Herb's son, is raising and training for exhibition in the fall fairs in connection with his work in the 4-H Club. Pryor Project.

Photograph of the Verdigris River which frms the southern and eastern boundaries of the 1600-acre "Will Rogers Ranch". In dry summer months when creeks on the ranch run dry this river furnishes an imvaluable water supply for the cattle. A water corral is fenced off in the river for the purpose. Pryor Project.

Photograph of the Verdigris River which frms the southern and eastern boundaries of the 1600-acre "Will Rogers Ranch". In dry summer months when creeks on the ranch run dry this river furnishes an imvaluable water supply for the cattle. A water corral is fenced off in the river for the purpose.

Photograph of harvesting of caged channel catfish on Moore's Fish Farm.

Photograph of 421 pounds of channelo catfish grown from 16 pounds of fingerlings in 180 days.

Photograph of a Marsh Hawks nest (Circus hudsonius). This nest is located in tall grasses of a sraw in a mixed-grass pasture, which has been "rested" for 5 yrs. 11 pellets picked up from around nest and analyzed by Denver Laboratory of U.S. Biological Survey were composed as follows: 3 cottontail (Sylvilagus), 3 cotton-rat (Sigmodon hispidus), 2 ground-squirrel (Citillus 13-linsatus), 1 house mouse (Mus musculus), 1 horned lark (Otocoris), and 1 mouse (Mus) and bird (sparrow?).

Photograph of Bob Moore checking fish in cage culture of channel catfish.

Photograph of channel catfish being transferred to holding tanks prior to cleaning. These fish produced for FFA project by Randy Moore, Son of Bob Moore of Moore Fish Farm.

Photograph of Bob Moore, left, and son Randy, show cleaning fish produced on the Moore Fish Farm.

Photograph of the Oologah Recreation Area. Simple layout of the nature trail is in three segments of varying length. OK-4616-1.

Photograph of Art Hanes, member of the Board of supervisors of Rogers Soil Conservation District with Brillion cultipacker seeder. OK-197-8.

Photograph of Merrill Intaman, member of the Board of Supervisors of the Rogers Soil Conservation District with 2-row automatic Bermuda sprig planter. OK-197-10.

Photograph of a panaramic view of the Will Rogers Ranch. OK-6371.

Photograph of acres and acres of farm land on its way to the sea. The Arkansas Rivier shown as cutting away valuable farm land in a sharp bend in Section 30, Township 10 North, Range 27 East. [near Sequoyah, Oklahoma]. The large chunks of earth, covered with a good cotton crop, came off and washed away. OK-10/2406.

Photograph of strip pits shaped and sodded to Bermuda grass. OK-4428-15.

Photograph of gullies on cut slopes that was left unprotected near the Port of Catoosa. OK-4946-1.

Photograph of brush eridication. A bulldozer with a special pointed cuter blade is pushing over large oak trees. This land being cleared will be established as permenant pasture. It is virgin land and is non-productive while the brush is on it. When cleared, the land will be sodded to bermuda grass. The cost of this clearing is approximately $40.00 per acre. This brush eradication and pasture establishment is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] as proper land use practice. OK-290-7.