Photograph of a heavily grazed pasture, note poor calves and frequent dung piles.

Photograph of Left-Loamy prairie range as included in loamy slickspot range site. Supports tallgrass mixture of little bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. Smaller amounts of sideoats grama. Note grass plants growing on exposed subsoil. Right-Claypan area as included in loamy slickspot site, supports meadow dropseed, blue grama, annual threeawn, sand dropseed, western ragweek, sideoats grama, fringeleaf paspalm, gummy lovegrass, and more whorled dropseed.

Photograph of the Loamy Slickspot range site. On left is slickspot with alkali sacaton, whorled dropseed, and tumblegrass. On right is claypan with meadow dropseed, western ragweed, sideoats grama, and fringeeleaf paspalm, gummy lovegrass and some whorled dropseed.

Photograph of a 1957 native grass planting-Bluestem and bluestem mixture. Excellent well prepared seedbed-planted in April. Good start up showing. Close-up shot by 3rd highline pole north of east turn in road. Soil Bank Program

Photograph of the back side of a pond dam constructed in 1953, 2:1 back slope, showing erosion damage on steep slope with no topsoil or vegetation.

Photograph of a cover crop of volunteer oats and vetch following crop of oats and vetch. Soil improvement crop.

Photograph of a native grass planting made April 1957. Sixty acres planted on ell prepared seedbed with combination drill. L.C. Haskins, district manager, examining stand. Appears to landowner as failure, some young grass showing, heavy cover of weeds. To be followed up later to check on stand improvement.

Photograph of a flood gauge set on a railway bridge at the mouth of Cow Creek just north of Waurika. Application for upstream flood control - PL-566 pending on Cow Creek.

Photograph of a 1953 planting of bluestem mixture. Good stand-grazed off during past winter-deferred now. East side of road, across from the 1956 planting.

Photograph of 1957 native grass planting--blue grama and bluestem mixture. Excellent, well-prepared seedbed planted in April, 1957. Good stand is now showing. Close-up shot by 3rd highline pole north of the east turn in the road. Soil Banks Program. OK-487-10.

Photograph of eight acre native grass planting with district equipment--a combination drill and culti-packer. Well prepared seedbed, mixture of bluestem grama. Drill moving. OK-488-1.

Photograph of King Ranch bluestem planting made in April and May 1957. Pure stand. Picture to be followed up as stand develops.

Photograph of native grass, bluestem mixture, planted spring 1953. Rough seed bed.

Photograph of eight acre native grass planting with district equipment-combination drill and cultipacker. Well prepared seedbed, mixture of bluestem, grama. Drill pictured is moving.

Photograph of 1956 native grass planting bluestem mixture. West side of road across from 1953 planting.

Photograph of an old pond, damaged and eroded due to poor topsoil which prevented development of vegetative cover. Soil mixed and highly dispersed.

Photograph of planting native grass on well prepared seedbed. Mixture of bluestem, grama and sideoat. Using district equipment to plant grass, combination drill and cultipacker, muddy spots in field at planting time. 8 acres.

Photograph of Rye and Vetch cover crop, soil improvement and seed harvest. Vetch inoculated and fertilized-rotated over farm each year.