Photograph of harvesting wheat on Glen Tracy farm.

Photograph of Lee Roark with modern hay loading equipment.

Photograph of Lee Brown, operator, is plowing under mature cover of rye after it has been grazed about 5 months by livestock. Knie uses this field, approximately 100 acres of Class I, II, and III land, exclusively for grazing. He says the cattle gained about 2 lbs. per day and this utilization of the land produces considerable more than harvest crops by machine.

Photograph of the Shallow Range Site. Clumps of bushes are wild plum, and skunkbrush sumac. Dominant grasses are sideoats grama and hairy grama, tall dropseed, little bluestem, with big bluestem and Indiangrass in deeper soil pockets. Legumes are sensitive briar, yellow neptunia, prairie clover, dalea. Other forbs (sp) are western ragweed and broomweed. Other woody plants are prickley pear and other cactus.

Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.

Photograph of 60 acres of one year old planting of weeping lovegrass on 6w soil-Class 7 - in Bayou Watershed. Korean lespedenza has been overseeded and is up to a good stand. Kenneth B. Blan, Student Trainee, with SCS, in photo.

Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.

Photograph of stubble being disked following combine. This photo shows second operation plowing stubble into the top 6" of the soil.

Photograph of raking three windrows at one time behind combine preceeding baleing. This operation follows immediately after combining. The type of baler used requires a large windrow for efficient operation. This land is also used for pasture. The cattle were taken off on May 10 to allow time for the clover seed to mature. 40 pounds of cleaned seed per acre were harvested from this land.

Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five of these machines, privately owned, are in operation in the Haskell SCD.

Photograph of a wind rower attachment to mower to windrow mixture of yellow hop clover, bermuda grass and Kobe lespedeza so seed in yellow hop clover can be combined with pick-up attachment on combine. Windrower turns swath gently with minimum loss of seed. Note how bottom end of stems are turned out holding leaves unside for ideal curing of hay. Windrower and pick-up attachment on combine permit drying efficently and harvesting for seed. Ater combining of seed, grass and clover will be baled for winter feed. Cattle were removed from this pasture on May 10.

Photograph of setting coastal bermuda grass roots with a John Deere transplanter. This planter is a combination tool with lister and disc tillers developed by the local Soil Conservation Service technicians. Henry, Andy, and Phillip Roye, sons of owner, operating machine. Five to six acres per day can be planted with this machine. Five

Photograph of Austrian winter peas are used for legume rotation. Nelson, in photo, practices complete soil conservation program of legume rotation, terraces, waterays, and crop residue management.

Photograph of Austrian winter peas growing in rotation with small grain. Nelson has been cooperating with the Washita County Soil Conservation District for several years. He stands between wheat and Austrian peas.

Photograph of Ladino clover planted, September 1944 at a rate of 5 pounds per acre, fertilized with 300 pounds phosphate per acre. Is being saved for seed. OK-9187.

Photograph of Ernest Hill giving information on erosive rains to a group at the Conservation Tillage Jamboree. OK-2826-6.

Photograph of Joe Colley on the tractor and Ray Jacobs on the trailer harvesting King Ranch grass seed with an ensilage cutter. OK-3065-1.

Photograph of a close-up of a typical section of range that has been cleared of blackjack timber and seeded to a mixture of native tall grasses in 1955. The brush on the land was aerial sprayed with 2-4-5T at the rate of 2 pounds per acre in May of 1958. This range has been controlled grazed to allow the grasses to become established. OK-624-3.

Photograph of a rotary brush mower being used to clear large brush. Kidred Sasseen, standing in the picture, exhibits the size of the brush that the mower cuts. OK-705-11.

Photograph of Kidred Sasseen, Washita County Soil Conservation District cooperator, makes the first round in shrub-oak and skunk brush infected pasture with a rotary mower. Pasture in present condition is worthless. OK-705-9 shows brush removed with grass left. OK-705-10.

Photograph of Kidred Sasseen, Chairman of the Washita County Soil Conservation District, shows shrub oak and skunk brush in his pasture. OK-705-8.

Photograph of the Conservation Tillage Jamboree, Enid Oklahoma. Showing Edward Rohrer recalling personal experience as a wheat farmer concerning conservation tillage. OK-2826-5.

Photograph of a gullied natural draw to be sloped, shaped and sodded for a terrace outlet channel. The camera station: looking up from draw from a point of a junction of the lateral drain; 136 paces up the channel from the dam of the farm pond. OK-9163.

Photograph of a Bermuda grass waterway. The waterway was sodded in May 1955. The Soil Conservation Service [SCS] program started in 1946 on this farm. OK-349-4.