Photograph of William Mast planting Bermuda grass sprigs in newly shaped waterway.

Photograph of William Mast using District owned Bermuda grass sprig planter to sprig new waterway.

Photograph of Raymond Frizzell inspecting the trash guard to protect inlet of trickle pipe. Pond recently constructed under district program.

Photograph of cattle grazing in Austrian Winter Peas. Used for cover and soil improvement crop.

Photograph of Will Davis and a bull in Austrian winter peas field. Used for soil improvement crop and cover crop.

Photograph of the planting of Bermuda grass. District owned and operated equipment is planting Midland Bermuda grass on F.R. Dobbs' farm. Class I land. Planted under a plan developed with the Soil Conservation District [SCD] with technicians of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS]. To be over-seeded with Korean Lespedeza. Follow up pictures to be taken. OK-852-7.

Photograph of Ivan Goss, Lawrence Steiner loading Bermuda grass roots into a Deer Creek SCD grass sprig planter. Sprigging new waterway by Jack Jones.

Photograph of Lawrence Steiner planting Bermuda grass roots in a new waterway-using district-owned equipment.

Photograph of Jack Jones sprigging Bermuda grass roots in newly constructed waterway.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED farmer using District equipment to harvest certified Midland Bermudagrass roots on Cooperator Vetus Clarkson's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bermuda Grass Roots. District equipment harvesting certified Midland Bermuda grass roots on Cooperator Vetus Clarkson's farm. Roots are being used by District to sprig on other cooperators farms in the District. Returns to cooperator from half of harvest rights will amount to $35.00 per acre and the District will fertilize to enable another harvest in 1960. This field was sprigged in 1955."

Photograph of Lloyd Hamill, owner, standing in waterway flume under construction. Seven-foot overfill gully was moving back into good cropland.

Photograph of structure outlet with water level in reservoir one foot over riser.

Photograph of Robert M. Sprowls overseeding native grass under the Great Plains Contract. Field was retired from cultivation approximately 20 years and is covered with weeds and low order grasses. OK-842-6.

Photograph of Robert N. Spowls overseeding a field with native grass, which was previously retired from cultivation for over twenty years and covered in weeds and low order grasses. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Robert N. Sprowls overseeding native grass under Great Plains contract. Field was retired from cultivation some 20 years and is covered with weeds and low order grasses."

Photograph of Robert N. Sprowls on an Allis-Chalmers tractor overseeding native grass under Great Plains contract. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Robert N. Sprowls overseeding native grass under Great Plains contract. Field was retired from cultivation some 20 years and is covered with weeds and low order grasses."