Photograph of A. R. Jackson holding Crotalaria.

Photograph of wind erosion control in a peanut field.

Photograph of wind erosion control in a peanut filed by strip cropping with 12 rows of peanuts and 4 rows of hegari forage sorghum. Peanuts have been pulled and stacked and shocked and the hegari has been headed. Hergari stalks will be left in the field to control blowing during the winter. Mr. W. A. Hardesty, shown here, said he he planned to follow the peanuts with a winter cover crop of rye grass or vetch and oats. Field is tempered. OK-8413.

Photograph of Bob Moore spreading bluestem seed out to dry. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, a temporary employe [sic] of the Soil Conservation Service, spreads bluestem seed out to dry on the floor of the airport hanger [sic] at Coffeyville. All this seed was out in the vicinity of Nowata, Oklahoma. It had to dry several days before it could be stored permanently in sacks."

Photograph of a "Hanger [sic] at Coffeyville being used by the Soil Conservation Service to store seed of bluestem grasses harvested in Northeastern Oklahoma."

Photograph of the unloading of native grass seed, pricinpally Indiangrass. The seed is being spead out to dry. From legt to right: Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape of Muskogee. OK-9748.

Photograph of Darrell Grissom, left, of Waurika, Oklahoma, Soil Conservation service agronomist in charge of the bluestem harvest near Nomata, Oklahoma, works with Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, temporary Soil Conservation Service employee, to spread bluestorm grass seed out to dry. A hanger at the Coffeyville Airport, Coffeyville, Kansas, was used as a drying space. OK-9735.

Photograph of three self-propelled combines operating under contract to the Soil Conservation Service cutting Big and Little Bluestem and Indiangrass. Yields have run around 150 pounds of the mixture to the acre, with Big Bluestem predominant. John Diehm of Redrock is the owner-operator of the machines. OK-9732.

Photograph of Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, a temporary Employee of the Soil Conservation Service, spreads bluestem seed out to dry on the floor of the airport hanger in Coffeyville, Kansas. All this seed was cut in the vicinity of Nowata, Oklahoma. It had to dry several days before it could be stored permanently in sacks. OK-9735.

Photograph of Jack Blue of Red Rock operates a combine harvesting bluestem grass seed. The sack of seed falling off the combine has been pushed by a second man who can't be seen in the picture because he stands immediately behind the sack. OK-9750.

Photograph of three men from left to right, Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape, both from Muskogee, unloading native grass seed, principally Indiangrass being spread out to dry. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Bill Woods, 2. Clarence Stevens, 3. Bert Slape. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Unloading native grass seed, principally Indiangrass. Left to Right are Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape, both of Muskogee. The see is being spread out to dry."

Photograph of Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot storing a truckload of native grass seed from Coweta at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant at Tulsa was used for storage of Soil Conservation Service native grass seed. Here a truckload of seed from Coweta, near Broken Arrow, unloads. Left to right are Joe Asher, driver, from Ardmore, Okla., in the truck, left, Clarence Day, and right, D. B. Clagg, and on the ground, right, is W. L. Elliot. The latter three are from Claremore."

Photograph of Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot storing a truckload of native grass seed from Coweta at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Joe Asher, driver, 2. Clarence Day, 3. D. B. Clagg, 4. W. L. Elliot. The back of the photograph proclaims, “The mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant at Tulsa was used for storage of Soil Conservation Service native grass seed. Here a truckload of seed from Coweta, near Broken Arrow, unloads. Left to right are Joe Asher, driver, from Ardmore, Okla., in the truck, left, Clarence Day, and right, D. B. Clagg, and on the ground, right, is W. L. Elliot. The latter three are from Claremore.”

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men taking seed out of a truck and placing it in a motor repair maintenance shop used as a temporary seed drying and storage facility. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Truckload of bluestem seed unloads in one of several motor repair maintenance shops which the Soil Conservation Service used to store seed so that it would dry."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man on a Massey-Harris self-propelled combine harvesting tall big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Self-propelled combine going through tall big bluestem grass. Yields from this stand averaged better than 150 pounds to the acre. John Diehm of Red Rock is the owner of the machine. He operated under contract with the Soil Conservation Service."

Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Cattle grazing on weeping lovegrass that was seeded in the spring of 1955. A seed crop was taken in 1957 then the grass was cut for hay in July 1957. This growth that is on the ground now, was produced since the hay crop was removed. OK-567-10.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma. OK-A-8.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma. OK-A-10.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Logan County Conservation District. OK-A-6.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Logan County Conservation District. OK-A-4.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Logan County Conservation District. OK-A-3.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Logan County Conservation District. OK-A-5.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma. OK-A-9.

Photograph of an outdoor classroom in session in Guthrie, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Logan County Conservation District. OK-A-7.