Photograph of Claude Webb, and K.C. Bennett, SCS Representative, proudly display a few bees from the 70 bee hives on the Webb farm. Bees are a most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, according to K.C. Bennet, to get more and better returns from legumes in a planned soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold around $500.00 worth of honey last year.

Photograph of Bermuda grass roots being raked with side-delivery rake. The digging area is raked several times to get the maximum amount of roots.

Photograph of vetch and rye plowed under for green manure. Shown in picture, Left to Right, K. C. Bennett, WUC, Clyde Brown, district cooperator, and Elmo Goss, neighbor, Howard Rutledge, Vocational Agricultural Instructor, Fairland.

Photograph of the high water mark and bank scouring shown after 2 to 4 inches of rains on watershed of North Cavalry. This is a 25 year old man-made channel designed to prevent flooding and ponding on bottom land. Nearby farmers say that this channel seldom overflows, but that it has lowered the water table in the soil enough to lower crop yields. The channel is approximately 20 feet deep at this point.

Photograph of left to right, Henery Heman, District cooperator, WUC, SCS K.C. Bennett, and Bart Brewster, neighbor. Brewster is shown admiring the extensive growth of vetch on the Heman farm, while Heman proudly looks on. The vetch is a common occurance now in Ottawa County with approxomately 60,000 acres grown annually. The vetch was practically not known before the beginning of the district in 1946.

Photograph of a water impound lot, looking north, constructed by ARS-SCS to study inundation tolerance of selected species of plants associated with watershed treatment (floodwater retarding structures). Water will be 5 feet deep at lower end of plot. Six plots are planned for the study. Reddish Prairie, virgin rangeland, Noble loam, slope 7%, erison 1, Class IV. Work is under the supervision of Edd. D. Rhoades, Agricultural Engineer, ARS. Project is in response to SCS research needs.

Photograph of a panoramic view looking north of water impounding plots constructed by ARS-SWC to study inundation tolerance of selected species of plants related to watershed treatment. Reddish Prairie, virgin rangeland, Noble loam, slope 7%, erosion 1, Class IV. This study is in response to SCS research needs. Work is under the supervision of Edd D. Rhoades, Agricultural Engineer, ARS-SWC.

Photograph of Claude Webb proudly displayes a few of the live bees from the 70 bee hives on his farm. Bees are the most important factor in the pollination of soil conservation legumes. This is a very economical way, K.C. Bennett, SCS technician, says to get more and better returns from legumes in a planned soil and moisture program. Bees feed on vetch, sweet clover, peach and other blossoms on the Webb farm. Webb sold $500.00 worth of honey last year.

Photograph of plowing down oats, Austrian peas, and vetch in a conservaton crop rotation with wheat-30 acres.

Photograph of plowing down oats, Austrian peas, and vetch in a conservaton crop rotation with wheat-30 acres.

Photograph of plowing down oats, Austrian peas, and vetch in a conservaton crop rotation with wheat - 30 acres.

Photograph of plowing down oats, Austrian peas, and vetch in a conservaton crop rotation with wheat - 30 acres.

Photograph of disking down oats, peas, vetch ahead of plow to accomplish the practice o plowing down a green manure crop in a wheat conservation crop rotation on 30 acres.

Photograph of E. E. Harrison's cattle grasing.

Photograph of National Watershed Congress. A singing group entertains the National Watershed Congress, 1966, at Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-12.

Photograph of Gordon K. Zimmerman, right, introduces Mr. Mrs. Marvin C. Emerson at a banquet meeting of the National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-5.

Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Registrants at the Congress with Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellmon second from right. TRC-100-12.

Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Wayne Liles, farm Editor, KWTV (Channel 9), Oklahoma City, left, and Oklahoma City, left, and Oklahoma Senator, Fred Harris. TRC-100-1.

Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Left: Oklahoma's Governor Henry Bellmon and Marvin G. Emerson, Director, Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Board before the Board's watershed display. TRC-100-9.

Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Left: Oklahoma's Governor Henry Bellmon and Marvin G. Emerson, Director, Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Board before the Board's watershed display. TRC-100-8.

Photograph of Leo P. Harvey, Pleasant Grove, Utah, receives the National Watershed of the Year plaque for American Fork-Dry Creek Waershed. James B. Craig, of the American Forestry Association, Washington DC, makes the presentation. National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-7.

Photograph of Leon J. Sisk, Field Secretary, Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Committee, speaks at the National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-6.

Photograph of James B. Craig, American Forestry Association, Washington DC (left) presents Watershed Man of the Year plaque to Elmer L. Smith, Catepillar Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois. National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-16.

Photograph of a bridge, over the Canadian River, is now 18 inches from the water, which is only about a foot deep but formerly 16 feet above the water level. Acc. To William Dolezal, supervisor of the eat Canadian Soil Conservation District, the water deep enough to dive into from the bridge 25 years earlier. Silt from upstream farms has clogged the channel. OK-9003.