Photograph of the Dedication Program Whitegrass-Waterhole Water and Soil Conservancy District. Visitors and dignitaries at the dedication. Left to right: Marvin C. Emerson, Executive Director, State Soil Conservation Board; C.A. Tidwell, State Conservationist, Oklahoma; A.P. Martin, Contracting Officer, Conservancy District; D.A. Williams, Administrator, Soil Conservation Service. OK-2667 (10).

Photograph of the Dedication Program Whitegrass-Waterhole Water and Soil Conservancy District. D. A. Williams, Administrator, Soil Conservation Service, delivers the dedicatory address. OK-2667 (7).

Photograph of the Dedication Program Whitegrass-Waterhole Water and Soil Conservancy District. Part of the crowd at a noon-time barbeque. OK-2667 (14).

Photograph of the Dedication Program Whitegrass-Waterhole Water and Soil Conservancy District. Part of the crowd listening to D.A. Williams' dedicatory address. OK-2667 (6).

Photograph of the Dedication Program Whitegrass-Waterhole Water and Soil Conservancy District. Officials of the sponsoring groups. Left to right: W.E. Clarkson, Chairman, Valiant, Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD], Board of Supervisors; A.P. Martin, Contracting Officer; L.M. Griffin, Chairman, SWCD Board of Supervisors. OK-2667 (12).

Photograph of land that timber was cleared in 1956. Seeded to fescue and leaking clover in fall of 1956.

Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-10.

Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-9.

Photograph of tree farming, pine trees planted in 1948.

Photograph of Pine trees planted in 1948. OK-1061-11.

Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man standing next to an 80 foot long, 6-foot deep pipe at a Creosoting plant in Valliant, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cylinder is 80' long, 6' deep, has capacity over 1,000 cu. ft. of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased."

Photograph of a before picture on the Whitegrass Waterhole. Looking northwest. Channel will be 8 feet deep and 35 feet flat at the bottom. 3 to 1 slide slope. OK-1061-6.

Photograph of: Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area & would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared this 12 acres, seeded it to Dallis grass, yelow hop, black medic & white Dutch clover & improvement increased carrying capacity to 2 cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cows.

Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9204.

Photograph of the Canant brothers’ farm, Idabel, Oklahoma. Four years ago when the Canant brothers bought a 400 acre farm, most of it was a worthless, wooded area that would not carry more than 25 head of cattle. They cleared 12 acres seeded it to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medick and white Dutch clover. This improvement increased the land’s carrying capacity to two cows per acre. Additional pasture work has been done and the farm now carries 100 head of cattle. OK-9202.

Photograph of an old cultivated field that had lain idle, overgrown with brush and sprouts. It has been flat broken [i.e., When land is broken by continuous lapping of furrows], disked and fertilized, then in the spring of 1945 it was seeded to carpet and Dallis grasses, yellow hop, burr black medic, white Dutch clover and Kobe and Korean lespedeza. OK-9206.

Photograph of Pasture Development. Region of worthless, wooded area (as in background) that was cleared last spring and seeded to Dallis grass, yellow hop and black medic clover. When Wayman and Julius Canant started their pasture program their original 400 acre farm had sufficient pasture for only about 25 head of livestock. Now it carries 100 heads. OK-9207.

Photograph of Mr. Oscar Coleman on a tractor, combining Dallis grass seed from a 15 acre pasture. Mr. Coleman, member of the Board of Supervisors and Business of the Little River Soil Conservation district, says he expects a yield of 200 to 250 pounds of seed per acre. OK-9236.

Photograph of hereford and nurse cows grazing on 60 acres of old 160 acre field seeded spring of 1945 to Kobe and Korean lespedeza and overseeded to big hop and black medic clover. Mr. Cavender bought this 560 acre farm from his father in 1944. With assistance of the Little River Soil Conservation Districkt the farm wa planned as a livestock unit. Sixty acres of native grass went to meadow, 100 acres to sericea lespedesa. In 1946, 40 additional acres were planted to sericea. Old pastures were improved, overseeded to clover mixtures and area now kept mowed. A 60 acre old field, fertilized, limed and planted with Korean laspadeza in 1945 was overseeded to hop & black medic clover shis summer, 600# carpet grass this spring. Weeds were kept mowed & this year Cavender grazed 22 registered polled Herefords, 2 horses & 6 grade cows on the old "field".

Photograph of five UNIDENTIFED workers using a rock crusher to grind limestone for fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service cooperators. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Lime pit and crusher leased and operated by supervisors of the Little River Soil Conservation District, Idabel, Oklahoma. The lime is crushed and sold near cost to the cooperating farmers of the district."

Photograph of a part of 12 acres of brushy pasture that has been cleared with a power saw since January 1946. Additional trees will be cut and sprouts will be controlled by mowing. The land has been seeded to carpet grass and will be overseeded to clovers and lespedeza next spring [1947]. The worthless, wooded area in the right background also will be cleared. Camera Station: in the 120 acre pasture. Facing the southeast from the side of the road at point 468 feet south of the farmstead gate. OK-9208.