Photograph of District Supervisor G. G. Goss using a tractor to combine rye and vetch for seed. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Combining rye and vetch for seed. This land has been in cultivation for 41 years. (G. G. Gross on tractor). Per Acre Yield: Unfertilized: 214# Abruzzi Rye Seed, 66# vetch, Fertilized: 224# Abruzzi rye seed, (120# superphosphate), 620# vetch seed, Cost of fertilizer, $1.65 per acre. Green Tonnage: Unfertilized: 3,079# rye, 103# vetch, Fertilized: 3,511# rye, 8,494# vetch. Total: Unfertilized, 1.59 tons per acre, Fertilized, 6.01 tons per acre. (The increase was 432# rye, 8,391# vetch). At 14 cents per lb. for vetch seed and 4 ½ cents per lb. for rye seed, the unfertilized crop amounted to $18.87 per acre. On fertilized land the per acre return was $96.88. The fertilizer made an increase in profit of $76.46 per acre.”

Photograph of a close-up of the fish distributor pouring fish into container for one of the District Cooperators.

Photograph of Green bean harvest on Bodine stony silt loam (7Xc-BE). This is an excessively well drained soil of the Ozark Highlands, formerly coverred with hardwood timber and used extensively for strawberry production. Slopes are very strong to steep. Field had previously been cleared of timber and had been producing strawberies for 3 years.

Photograph of view of the old channel in the Bear-Hybarger watershed. This was complated a number of years agao by local people. Pumps were installed to pump water out of the fields into this channel. It was being blocked by main channel. It was being blocked by main channel siltation, but now ties in with the newly improved main channel and its functioning well without the use of pumps. OK-4321

Photograph of view on lower end of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel looking upstream near discharge end of channel. This is an unimproved section. Three miles east of Lindsay. OK-4322-1D.

Photograph of a natural channel below site 3A. Bear-Hybarger watershed channel is approximately 14 feet deep. A small stream of clear water is flowing. OK-4321-5C.

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel, looking west from bridge on north-south county road. Multiple owners; poor maintenance. Location is one mile below the head of the channel. OK-4321-8C.

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel, looking west from bridge in northwest corner of Lindsay, Oklahoma.Three miles from head of channel. Flood gates drain low areas in town during high intensity storms. OK-4321-11C.

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed, looking east from bridge on north-south road. Homer Dacus farm; good maintenance. Location is one mile below the head of the channel. OK-4321-5C.

Photograph of typical section of range infested with shin-oak which was sprayed on June 12, 1958. The first application used 2-4-5-T mixed with diesel oil and water. Note damage to brush. The pasture will be deferred for 2 growing seasons under the Great Plains Conservation Program. OK-619-4.

Photograph of a completed stock pond – road fill project. 385 acres drainage area. This was a cooperative project between I.C. Ingram, Caddo County Commissioners, the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] and the Agricultural Conservation Program [ACP]. Ingram needed stock water and received assistance from ACP for that purpose. Caddo County Commissioners furnished extra yardage needed to make it suitable for a raod fill. Ingram has 400 acres in Caddo County and all of it is under a basic plan with the North Caddo Soil Conservation District [SCD]. He started work in 1945 and has been applying soil conservation practices each year. OK-891-3.

Photograph of crested wheatgrass.

Photograph of pasture establishing. Bermuda grass pasture sodded on land recently cleared with a bulldozer. The brush has been windrowed and will be left in the field for the conservation of wildlife, erosion control and for residue to improve the soil. Rotation grazing will be practiced in this pasture. Vetch, hop clover and Korean lespedeza will be overseeded in the Bermuda grass. The Bermuda was fertilized with 200 pounds of 0-20-0 fertilizer at the time of sprigging. Owner plans control of mullen in pasture. OK-293-11.

Photograph of weeping lovegrass planted as a soil building crop rotation system. This grass is in its second growing season.

Photograph of OK's 1500th structure, Site # 34, Finn Creek. Workmen for the Holtzen Construction Company compact sand in trench used for foundation drain. OK-4287-4.

Photograph of the SW Poultry and Livestock Company. Showing egg production as an important agricultural enterprise in Grady County. Much of the poultry feed is produced from locally grown grain and alfalfa. OK-1157-9.

Photograph of the SW Poultry and Livestock Company. Collecting caged eggs. The eggs are immediately taken to a plant where they are washed, graded and cooled. These eggs are marketed in nearby towns and cities. OK-1157-10.

Photograph of old vegetation at the Red Plains Experiment Station. The old vegetation, after moving mature grass plants, provided a mulch which reduces erosion. This mulch creates a silt deposit and attention is called to the young grss seedlings which are emerging. This is important on badly eroded abandoned areas which are being revegetated. OK-8349.

Photograph of a section of range infested with shinnery oak, which is being treated with 2-4-5T mixed with diesel oil and water. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Typical section of range infested with shin-oak which was sprayed June 12, 1958 on the first application using 2-4-5T mixed with diesel oil and water. Note damage to brush. The pasture will be deferred for 2 growing seasons under the Great Plains Conservation Program."

Photograph of a completed stock pond road fill project on I. C. Ingram's land in Caddo county. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Completed stock pond road fill project. 385 acres drainage area. This was a cooperative project between Ingram, Caddo Co. Commissioners, SCS and ACP. Pond area has been fenced and earthen fill sodded to grass. Ingram has 400 acres in Caddo Co. and all is under basic plan with North Caddo SCD. He started work in 1945 and has been applying soil conservation practices each year."

Photograph of A.J. Callins with equipment used in treating mesquite on Pigg ranch. Note barrels of diesel oil in pickup. Each tree is treated form can as shown. Shovel is used to clean out or dig around base of tree as needed. Note; the mesquite in foreground is a rattle-snake hole-up.

Photograph of a pipe on backside of Site No. 11 Long Branch Watershed Project discharging water from the 17" pipe. From July 13 to 26, 16" of rain fell on this watershed and the water went around the emergency spillway on July 15 following 11' of the rain in 44 hours for about a 3 hour period. Everything worked perfectly and no damage to the bermudagrass cover in the waterway. About 100 to 150' of nativegrass above the permanent pool contour was damaged by standing water during this rain period.

Photograph of view on lower end of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel looking upstream near discharge end of channel. This is an unimproved section. Three miles east of Lindsay. OK-4322-2D.

Photograph of view of Finn Creek channel from new bridge three miles northwest of Maysville, Oklahoma, Garvin SCD. OK-4322-3D.