Photograph of Broomcorn Johnny cutting broomcorn.

Photograph of Broomcorn Johnnies cutting broomcorn.

Photograph of Broomcorn Sallie cutting broomcorn.

Photograph of Foy Hendrix (right), WUC, Fairview, and Jack R. Foster, member, Board of Supervisors, Major County SWDC, looking at stack of lovegrass hay baled this year by Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster's first cutting of hay on all his lovegrass has amounted to 10,000 bales.

Photograph of cutting broomcorn.

Photograph of Foy Hendrix, WUC, (left), Fairview, and Jack R. Foster, member, Board of Supervisors, Major County SWDC, discussing Great Plains Conservation Program contract Mr. Foster has out on his farm. Background shows recently mowed 80-acre field of irrigated lovegrass.

Photograph of Roy Hendrix (left), WUC, Fairview and Jack R. Foster, member, Board of Supervisors, Major County SWDC, discussing Great Plains Conservation Program contract Mr. Foster has on his farm. Background shows recently mowed 80-acre field of irrigated lovegrass.

Photograph of Foy Hendrix, WUC, (left), Fairview, and Jack R. Foster, member, Board of Supervisors, Major County SWDC, checking rainfall amounts, irrigation rates, fertilizer rates and yeilds from 80 fields of irrigated lovegrass.

Photograph of cattle grazing Midland Bermudagrass in field where hay is being baled. OK-2851-11.

Photograph of midland Bermudagrass being baled. Made about 20-25 bales of hay per acre at same time cattle was grazing it. OK-2851-9.

Photograph of cattle grazing Midland Bermudagrass in field where hay is being baled. OK-2851-14.

Photograph of a bulldozer with a blade for Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control. OK-2820.

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 the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. Showing slimes ponds and chat piles. North view from roadway showing well-established vagetation on active slimes pond dam in Commerce, Oklahoma.. The principal grass is Bermuda. Chat pile in the background. OK-2769-7.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north in central portion of Field no. 6. Black Locust trees planted on 02-03-1967 without fertilizer nor mulch. OK-2878-26.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field no. 2, series 9, haygrazer planted on 05-12-1967 unmulched. 2 check rows without fertilizers, 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-16 fertilizer, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 with 50% nitrogen top dressed on the eastern half. Raymond Magnass holds the pole upright between rows 3 & 4--top dressed on 06-24-1967. OK-2879-20.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north in field no. 3, near the center of the field. Raymond Magness holds the rod by the sycamore tree planted on 02-03-1967. No ferilizer used, but prairie hay mulch used. OK-2879-16.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing northwest in Field no. 4, series 6. German millet planted on 05-12-1967. Rows 1 and 2 were not fertilized. Rows 3 and 4 were with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer. Rows 5 and 6 were fertilized using 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 150 pounds of 33-0-0 at the east end. Rows 7 and 8 used 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 150 pounds of 33-0-0. Raymond Magness in the photo. OK-2879-4.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field no. 2, series 6, with broom corn, the summer cover crop planted on 05-12-1967. Unmulched. 2 check rowws without fertilizer, 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10, 2 rows of 10-20-10 fertilizer with 50% nitrogen top-dressed and 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer with 50% fertilizer top-dressed. Raymond Magness holds the rod between rows 4 and five. OK-2879-7.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing northwest in fertilized and mulched portion of Field no. 5. Shows growth of volunteer cottonwood trees in area planted to native grasses. Grass planted and fertilizer applied in prairie hay mulch on MArch 15 - 16, 1967. OK-2879-2.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north in Field no. 1. Native grass plantings seeded into prairie hay mulch. View, and Raymond Magness, is near the center of the plot. OK-2879-15.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field No. 4, series 5. English rye grass was seeded on 09-19-1966 unmulched and fertilized at the rate of [unclear]. with rows using either 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer or 400 pounds of the same. The Road is held by Raymond Magness in the 400 pound row. OK-2878-5.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west toward Field no. 2, series 10. Planted sumac. The check rows are unfertilized; 2 rows are fertilized with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer; 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10; 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 50 pounds of nitrogen top-dressed; and, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 50 pounds of nitrogen top-dressed. Seeded on 05-12-1967; top-dressed on 06-24-1967, unmulched. OK-2879-11.