Photograph of old crop land turned into pasture with common Bermuda grass and vetch.

Photograph of loading fertilizer into fertilizer box on two-row Bermuda sprigger. Landowner is applying fertilizer as per SCS technician's recommendations for soil conserving grass pasture. This cooperator understands the need for proper plant food for establishment of the grass.

Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.

Photograph of a five acre short leaf pine planting made in 1950 from planting stock brought from Missouri. This is the best plantation in the Talihina Soil Conservation District. Cecil Keylon, SCS, checking progress of the trees. Plantation was made in an old cultivated field.

Photograph of multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.

Photograph of part of head cut or overall on large gully, Sec. 17, T9N, R8W. Overfall is 73 feet deep, 270 feet wide, and advanced at an average rate of 70 feet per year from 1937 to 1955. This produced 31. 7 acre-feet of sediment annually.

Photograph of SCS personnel explaining contour farming and crop rotation to African-American farmers. OK-5502.

Photograph of loading fertilizer into a fertilizer box on a two-row Bermuda grass sprigger. Landowner is applying fertilizer as per Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician's recommendation for soil conserving grass pasture. This cooperator understands the need for proper plant food for the establishment of the grass. OK-1361-6.

Photograph of gullies in a dried out lake, identified as Riney Lake, location unknown.

Photograph of Elmer Binns girdling large cull oak tree to release a crop of young pines. This is cheaper, quicker and a better method than planting pine seedlings. Planting pine seedlings in this mountain area is difficult and expensive. This hill land has been badly cut over the past and Mr. Binns is trying to encourage pine trees through adapted conservation forestry measures. OK-335-9.

Photograph of cattle on native tall grass seeding. Seeded in 1952. Area previously cultivated. OK-1159-5.

Photograph of the back slope of a pond dam. Mounds where Bermuda grass had been set. Soil is corrosive and not capable of supporting Bermuda grass. OK-1159-1.

Photograph of ladino clover growing in slightly wet land. Dennis silty clay. AR-61, 599.

Photograph of a shop-made brush rake used by W. C. Little of Abilene, Texas, to rake and windrow trees and brush following a tree-dozer and rear cutter. TX-45, 929.

Photograph of a follow-up of a roadside drop-inlet flood control structure adjoining the Sid Lundy farm. The structure was built where formerly a dangerous wooden bridge spanned a gully on a school bus and mail route. County Commissioners furnished the pipe and the Soil Conservation District put in a fill through the Soil Conservation Service Flood Control program. The permanent basin is full of water. OK-9600-D.

Photograph of a drop-inlet gully control structure built by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Flood Control Program in the spring of 1948. Diversions bring the water into this gully plug and protect other gullies. Drainage area is 195 acres. OK-10, 213.

Photograph of a pine plantation. Five acre short leaf pine planting made in 1950 from planting stock brought from Missouri. This is the best plantation in the Talihina Soil Conservation District. Cecil Keylon, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], is checking the progress of the trees. Plantation was made in an old cultivated field. OK-336-3.

Photograph of forestry practices. A stack of posts, 6 feet in length, at the concentration yard near Coaldale, Arkansas. Type of posts which are being cut from the Henschell and surrounding woods. Posts are brought into this yard to be peeled, graded and prepared for shipment. Charles P. Burke, Oklahoma Woodland Conservationist, is checking a stack of graded posts. These posts are the result of proper woodland thinning. OK-335-11.

Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fnce, hedge and for wildlife cover.

Photograph of Site No. 71, Upper Black Bear. AC observing concrete workers preparing forms for the riser on the upper end of the principal spillway. Also shown to the left, a drainway to keep the natural drain open to prevent impoundment of water during construction.

Photograph of Graden Teeters, a District Supervisor, looking at the growth of weeping love grass planted for crop rotation as seeded in April 1955. OK-98-3

Photograph of a part of head cut on a large, deep gully on Ionine Creek Site 3. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Part of head cut or overfall on large gully, Sec. 17, T9N, R8W. Overfall is 73 feet deep, 270 feet wide, and advancing 70 feet per year from 1937 to 1955. This produced 31.7 acre-feet of sediment annually."

Photograph of a large gully near Ionine Creek site 3. The trees in the background obscure the gully. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Large gully, Sec. 17, T9N, R8W. The main gully has moved upstream at the rate of 70 feet per year for the past 18 years. It has a depth of 73 feet and a width of 270 feet at the head. Gully is 90 feet deep at deepest point. This gully system produced sediment at the rate of 72 acre-feet per year for the period 1937 to 1955."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing with a herd of cattle in a pasture of Bermuda and vetch. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture. Old crop land turned into pasture. Common Bermuda and vetch."