Photograph of Soil and Water Conservation District [S&WCD] Cooperator's place. Brush thicket being brushed off so that pasture grass, Bermuda, may make a more s successful growth. SCS technicians aid landowners in developing around soil and water conservation plans. The landowners make use of S&WCD equipment to aid in completing needed program. OK-1754-9.

Photograph of a wheat field where water concentrates. Waterway is to be shaped in the near future and sprigged to bermuda. This is a continuation of a waterway starting on the joining Irwin Curby farm on the north. Keith residence in the background. OK-1575-5.

Photograph of Thomas Mabry, district cooperator, on a field where he used a Grassland Drill to plant vetch and small grain for winter pasture. OK-1525-10.

Photograph of the Whitegrass-Waterhold Project. A.A. Boren, member of the Conservancy District Board, checking the bridge to be enlarged on Main Channel No. 1, the Whitegrass-Waterhold Project. Area in the background is inundated by approximately 4 inches of water on the Borem Ranch will be cleared and developed to improved pasture as soon as the channel is completed on the project. OK-1563-11.

Photograph of pan attachment on mowing machine cutter bar used in harvesting Blue Grama grass for seed.

Photograph of planting cotton on the contour in a terraced feld with large tractor.

Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED men harvesting wheat on the contour with a combine cutting an eight-foot swath. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting wheat on the contour with a combine cutting an eight-foot swath. The wheat was drilled in on the contour with a deep furrow drill and the field was terraced."

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men harvesting wheat on the contour on top of a terrace with combine running lengthwise of terrace. Combine cutting an eight-foot swath. Another UNIDENTIFEID man in a tie stands off to the extreme left. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting wheat on the contour on top of a terrace with combine running lengthwise of terrace. Combine cutting an eight-foot swath. Wheat drilled in on contour with deep furrowed drill."

Photograph of harvesting wheat on the contour with a combine cutting an eight foot swath. He wheat was drilled in on the contour with a deep furrow drill and the field was terraced.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Showing blue gama grass. Fully mature. OK-R-28.

Photograph of large Bermuda grassed terrace outlet system which will carry water from 30 acres. Grass spot sodded in June 1937 and water kept out until fall.

Photograph of W. T. Gooldy using a tractor to rebuild this field's contour ridges and plant Bermudagrass for additional protection. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rebuilding of contour ridges in the fall and covering with Bermuda grass and to protect it from winter freezing on ridges. Rebuilt with tractor and 4-disk one-way. Mr. Gooldy contour ridged 63-acres of pasture lands in spring of 1937. The Pryor CCC Camp sodded these ridges soon after they were built. The Bermuda grass made enough growth to completely cover most of the ridges, and supplied good grazing most of the summer. The cooperator mowed most of this pasture during the summer months to control weed growth. The cooperator plans to construct contour ridges on 380 acres in the fall of 1937. The Soil Conservation Services agrees to plant Bermuda grass in spring of 1938."

Photograph of a terrace channel in terraced contour orchard on the Camp Brothers Ranch filled with silt. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Silt from sandy road and unprotected area above filling in terrace channel in terraced contour orchard."

Photograph of Lloyd Lafave standing next to traps used on the farm for rabbits.

Photograph of Omer and Orville Moore, and their dogs, with opossum hides taken over three nights.

Photograph of severe gully erosion.

Photograph of the Hill Hudgins family inside a squatter shack on land purchased by the U. S. Government. This family of eight lives in a one room shack with a kitchen adjoining. They have cleared 13 acres of forest land selling pine cross-ties and poles as a livelihood.

Photograph of Hobbs Western Timber Company workers loading cross-ties onto train cars.

Photograph of Hobbs Western Timber Company workers loading cross-ties onto train cars.

Photograph of workers cutting pine poles for split fence posts at the John Westmoreland & Sons Mill.

Photograph of peeled pine poles ready for market.

Photograph of “Water passing over farm pond spillway draining into incipient gullies at bottom of slope. Spillway will be shaped, gullies sloped, dam raised and dam and spillway sodded to Bermuda grass.”

Photograph of Edgar Landrum standing in front of a gully in natural draw. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Gully in natural draw. Banks were sloped and channel solid sodded to Bermuda in spring of 1941. Drainage area from cultivated field approx. 60 A. Mr. Landrum (in photograph) says this gully was very active and threatening his cultivated land but since establishment of Bermuda erosion has been practically stabilized."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man in the background watching the sheep grazing on Bermuda, grama grasses, and buffalograss in contour furrowed pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Sheep grazing Bermuda in contour furrowed pasture for conservation of soil and moisture and to promote growth of desirable grasses. Principle grasses are buffalo, Grama grasses. Furrows constructed in spring of 1941.”