Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Farmers Co-op grain elevator shown here is the hub of activity in Corn."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Son Turner Davis and Daughter Georganna Dorney were in Oklahoma City recently for the 50th anniversary of their parents, Edward and Freda Davis, who celebrated their anniversary with friends Dr. and Mrs. Henry Bennett, who were also celebrating their 50th anniversary."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The staff of Harry James, Oklahoma county agent, will be enlarged Monday with the addition of Claude Fite, Cordell, as assistant agent. Fite, a graduate of Oklahoma A&M college with a major in poultry husbandry, was a member of Oklahoma's 1941 national champion 4-h poultry judging team. In college, he took part in poultry judging contests in Baton Rouge, LA., and Memphis, TN, with the A&M team"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Cordell Christian home, first home for the elderly to be financed and built under the Federal HousingAct of 1959, will open January 1 if all goes well."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ed Hines - - - state representative # Washita county"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Edward W. Hines - - - state representative"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. George Strobel of Foss, Okla... . craft and home projects fill lonely hours since the death of her 60-year-old railroad worker husband, George, who was killed in an accident on the job."

Photograph of harvesting little bluestem. Tract reseeded in 1944. Wendell Campbell operating his combine. OK-9790.

Photograph of overhead water that has caused severe erosion in the nature drain on this farm. It will be shaped into a waterway and sprigged to bermuda grass. When the grass becomes established it will also serve as outlets for terraces to be constructed later. OK-1224-5.

Photograph of native grasses that are properly managed on the Troy Maddox farm. Maddox says having more grass in his pasture than he needs is good security. He buys when the market is down and sells when the market is up because he always has plenty of grass. Its moisture is adequate; he always has plenty of small grain pasture also. OK-776-2.

Photograph of native grass planting. A. R. Bartel planting a mixture of native grasses consisting of little bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, switchgrass and sand lovegrass. This mixture is being seeded into a [unclear] cover. The drill used for this operation is owned by the Washita County Soil Conservation District. OK-893-7.

Photograph of fish being stocked in Boggs lake, site 15 Cavalry Creek watershed. Approximately 3000 bass were placed in water on this trip. Leslie Hess, SCS, and Jody Deputy, Washita Co. Game Ranger, are in the photo with representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of Tishamingo.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man kneeling in a field consisting of sideoats grama grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Side oats [sic] grama grass on the Sasseen Ranch. This grass was planted in cotton stalks with the Washita County Soil Conservation District grass drill. The planting is four years old. Sasseen has received good grazing the past 2 years."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First Washita County courthouse stood on this lot in Cloud Chief."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hazel Hawkins - Burns Flat 4-H Club member - Loyd Hawkins -4-H club member winner of Presidents Trophy"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd Hawkins - Burns Flat - 4-H Club Mbr. - winner of president trophy - Gordon Patterson - 4-H Club Coach Washita Co."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd Hawkins - 4-H Club winner of president trophy"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd Hawkins - Burns flat - Washita Co. - winner of 4- H - Presidents trophy"

Photograph of Augie Sewell, Washita County SCD supervisor and Darwin Craig, Cordell Sportsman Club receive fish from the Oklahoma Fish Hatchery delivery truck to be taken to floodwater retarding structures on Cavalary Creek watershed.

Photograph of native grass planting. A five-year old grass planting on the 1200 acre ranch of Eldred Sasseen. Sasseen has planted grass on his ranch every year the past five years. During 1959 and 1960 he expects to reseed all the remaining cropland to a native grass mixture of little bluestem, switch, sideoats grama, blue grama and lovegrass. OK-776-5.

Photograph of teamwork, showing representatives of various agencies studying grass identification and range management. Left to right: Jack Harper, Vocational Agricultural Instructor; Harvey Schmidt. farmer; W. G. Nash [?], district supervisor; Arnold Bowen, farmer; Ralph Olson, section manager of Cordell Chamber of Commerce; Fred Whittington, Range conservationist, Soil Conservation Service [SCS]. OK-893-5.

Photograph of the Seger Indian Training School, Colony, OK, July 1, 1932.

Photograph of Bob Deevers, opr. , inspecting a waterway that was constructed and sodded to Bermuda grass in 1960. Terraces were constructed after wheat harvest in 1960 to outlet into this waterway.

Photograph of a view seen in Okla. 10-778-B after the construction of a road fill and drop inlet pipe (inlelt end shown) on the county road 4 miles W of Bessie, Okla. The fill replaces the old bridge.