Photograph of land prepared with waterway ready for sodding. J. D. Davis, Soil Conservation District [SCD] cooperator, center, and M. Swann, on the left, and J. W. Lodwick on the right are Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians. Class III, Soil Unit 2HL. TX-48-836.

Photograph of A. L. Chapman, Soil Conservation District [SCD] cooperator on the left and J. W. Lodwrick, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician on the right, check the cover of grass on a sodded waterway. This waterway is 125 feet wide and was sodded to Bermuda grass in 1949. It was overseeded to King Ranch bluestem in 1950. Between 60 to 70 acres has been terraced to the waterway from the field on the right. The waterway contains around 10 acres. The waterway was cut for hay in 1953 yielding 450 bales of hay. It has been seeded to vetch and top dressed with ammonium nitrate. The waterway is also used for pasture. Soil Unit 1. BL Class III. TX-48-833.

Photograph of A. L. Chapman, Soil conservation District [SCD] cooperator in center discusses the value of his sodded waterway with J. W. Lodwick, left, and M. Swann, right, Soil Conservation Service {SCS] technicians. The waterway was sodded in the spring of 1949 to Bermuda grass. It was overseeded to King Ranch bluestem in the spring of 1950. The waterway is around 125 feet-wide. Soil Unit 1, Class III BL. TX-48-834.

Photograph of a waterway which was sodded to Bermuda grass in the spring of 1950 and is 75 feet wide. Terraces empty on the waterway from the left. This waterway has been fenced and is grazed by cattle. J. W. Lodwick, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, appears in the photo. TX-48-300.