Photograph of ditch digging. This is where the bottom of the ditch should be. The depth below this point will only stand in water which cannot be used to irrigate the field. TX-45, 209.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing and posing in a deep gully. This gully will be controlled with drop inlets. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Deep gully that will be controlled with drop inlet structures. Land above this gully will be terraced and contoured farmed. A grassed waterway will empty into the area."

Photograph of Kudzu developed from seedlings. Planted 5 years ago.

Photograph of several horses, cows, and a pig grazing in a 100 year old Bermuda pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "100 year old Bermuda pasture that was disked, limed and phosphate in spring of 1945."

Photograph of several horses, cows, and a pig grazing in a 100 year old Bermuda pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "100 year old Bermuda pasture that was disked, limed and phosphate in spring of 1945."

Photograph of Tract 310, one acre released plot where hardwood trees have been circled. Young pine trees were planted 5 years ago.

Photograph of contour listed rows on a field to be terraced.

Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.

Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.

Photograph of a Cypress tree 42 feet in circumference at its base. Borings made by the U.S. Forestry Service show this tree, said to be the oldest in Oklahoma, to be 2,000 years old. Left to right: Earl J. Hayes, Robert Stiles (owner) and Z.T. Morgan. Hayes and Morgan are Soil Conservation Service technicians. OK-9230.

Photograph of Mrs. B.B. Hornsby (center) pouring coffee for her husband (left) and son, Jack (right), after the men have spent a hard day in the fields. Jack, age 18, looks over the bonds purchased by his father during the 4th War Loan Drive. The Hornsby family has purchased a total of $3,370 in bonds. Mr. Hornsby says, it all come off the farm where he has established a complete soil and moisture conservation program, "Without what I have done in trying to save my poor, old land, I couldn't have done it, boys. I couldn't have done it farming the old way." OK-8706.

Photograph of the fertilizing of a contour-cultivated field with the application of barnyard manure. OK-8705.

Photograph of Edward Cooper, age 9, and his dog head for home with a mass of bass and freshwater drum fish caught from a fertilized farm pond belonging to his uncle, George Langston. Pond stocked in the spring of 1945. AR-61, 085.

Photograph of part of a 30 acre planting of loblolly pine trees on an old, cultivated field. Planted 5 years earlier. OK-9232.

Photograph of a Cypress tree 42 feet in circumference at its base. Borings made by the U.S. Forestry Service show this tree, said to be the oldest in Oklahoma, to be 2,000 years old. Left to right: Earl J. Hayes, Robert Stiles (owner) and Z.T. Morgan. Hayes & Morgan are Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians. Okla-9231.

Photograph of the R. Marlow Tract in Idabel, Oklahoma. Part of the 100 acre planting of shortleaf and loblolly pine trees., 5 years old. Okla-9275.

Photograph of part of a 30 acre planting of lobally pine on old cultivated field. Planted 5 years ago. Okla-9232.

Photograph of woodland near Haworth, Oklahoma. Tract 310. One acre release plot where hardwood trees have benn circled. Young pine trees were planted 5 years ago. OK-9233.

Photograph of Prof. C. X. McClelland and a class of WW II, veterans and Asst. Prof. W. J. Wiser standing in part of 110 acres of sericea lespedeza. The sericea is now in its 14th growing season and has produced better than 2 tons of hay per acre each year.

Photograph of numerous UNIDENTIFED contestants judging four classes of range in the first range judging contest sponsored by Soil Conservation Service, County Agent, and Cleveland County SCD. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Showing a section of contestants for first range judging contest. Cooperative enterprise with the Soil Conservation Service, County Agent and Cleveland County SCD participating. Judging 4 classes of range.”

Photograph of showing a section of contestants for first range judging contest. Co-operative enterprise with the Soil Conservation Services, County Agents and Cleveland County SCD participating. Judging 4 classes of range. OK-10, 158.

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service technician Vernon Horn discusses planting native grass seed with Tom Knapp. OK-9916.

Photograph of a wild grouse.

Photograph of brush control by chemicals. Where selective chemicals are properly used the land cover is not destroyed and erosion is controlled. Leaves, twigs and stems of Black-jack and other oak brush is sprayed with a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T herbicide all accumulated in a mulch on the soil. There was an average of 7,593 pounds per acre of litter two years after the treatment. This mulch conserves the water and makes conditions ideal for the growth of grass. The area on the left was not treated while the area on the right was. The grass is more effective for erosion and flood control than the original cover of brush and grass. There was a 45% reduction in water run off annually from good grass on the altered land than from the adjacent area of brushland. OK-79, 441.