Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This town's business is suffering from a bad case of "vacation doldrums"- but there's nothing but smiles in the stores. Actually, here the number of people who have "gone to the mountains for the first time in several years is perhaps the best possible barometer of real prosperity."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wesley Crigler, at Laverne's Independence Day celebration, wears a ribbon around his arm in remembrance of the American hostages in Iran."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Terry Mullberry, 7, peers from a pickup truck window and around a flag to watch the hostage-honoring Independence Day parade in Laverne."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Teri Lenz"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Teri Lenz"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Teri Lenz"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Teri Lenz"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jody Sparks, left, and Carol Ann McKee test the water in the Laverne swimming pool which was worked over this summer in a water extension program."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Merie Swineford of Laverne and his mule, Biscuit, take part in Saturday's festivities."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joe Bob Leach and his mother, Mrs. L. A. Leach, look over some of the many cards from well-wishers as the Buffalo lad pastes some more in his already bulging scrapbook"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Teri Lenz"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Bicentennial monument in Laverne Park provides the background for the colorful wedding ceremony of Barbara St. Pere Ayres and Merle Dean Swinford who exchange vows July 4."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jane Jayroe, Miss America of 1967 and a resident of Laverne, Oklahoma will tour Vietnam with five state contest queens."

Photograph of SCS Tech. Clarence E. Stith checks growth of biennial yellow sweet clover. Stith planted the clover in the spring of 1952 in this 20 acre wheat field solely to improve the soil, the deep roots opening up the soil for the free circulation of air and water. He also uses hairy vetch turned in to add organic matter. To follow clover with wheat for 4 or 5 years.

Photograph of Stubble Mulch Tillage. First time over the tillage with a sweep plow. OK-1693-6.

Photograph of a district-owned native grass seed drill. The drill is an 8-foot combonation seeder equiped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill. OK-133-4.

Photograph of Carey silt loam profile. Note the compound columnar structure and the accumulation of caliche. The A1 horizon is about 12 inches thick, the B2 and B3 are about 2 ½ feet thick and the C ca [ca = pedogenic carbonates = carbonic acids that can that modify soil constituents] horizon extend below this. Entire picture covers 6½ feet of depth, typical of much of Carey soils in Harper County, transported by alluvial-colluvial forces from nearby hills and a weak B horizon has formed in places. Some soils are moderately permeable. OK-304-4.

Photograph of bindweed in bloom. OK-342-1.

Photograph of a crawler-pulling brush chopper. This picture shows sunflower and cockle burr on the bottom pasture land being controlled by a brush chopper. The chopper measure 32 feet wide. OK-101-5.

Photograph of active sand dunes becoming stabilized with the use of blow-out grass and sand bluestem grass. The sand in these dunes was blown up from the North Canadian river bottom.

Photograph of sorghum sown in a stubble mulch after one operation with a Noble plow.

Photograph of cattle grazing on a properly managed range. February calves creep-fed oats weighing 600 lbs. by September.