Photograph of Bob Hartley, 21 year old ranchman recently graduated from Okla. A&M, spreads sideoats grama grass on the floor of a cattle barn so the seed can dry without heating. The seed was brought in from combines which Hartley operated during the sideoats and the bluestem harvest. Paper sacks were used during a temporary shortage of other sacks. Hartley cut seed near Amarillo,m Texas, as well as in the Vinita vicinity.

Photograph of Bob Hartley spreading sideoats and bluestem seeds of the floor of a cattle barn to dry.

Photograph of Johnny Bitness and Johnny Blevins using pull-type combines to harvest sideoats grama for the Caney Valley Soil Conservation District. A third man, Wilbur Hadley is operating the machine directly behind Blevins' combine. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Johnny Bitness, 2. Johnny Blevins, 3. Wilber Hadley. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pull-type combines harvesting sideoats grama grass for the Caney Valley Soil Conservation District. Johnny Bitness drives the combine at the left, Johnny Blevins the one at the right. Behind Blevins' machine is another operated by Wilbur Hadley of Wann, Okla. All three operators are hired by the district."

Photograph of Bob Hartley spreading sideoats and bluestem seeds of the floor of a cattle barn to dry. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bob Hartley, 21-year-old ranchman recently graduated from Okla. A&M, spreads sideoats grama grass on the floor of a cattle barn so the seed can dry without heating. The seed was brought in from combines which Hartley operated during the sideoats and the bluestem harvest. Paper sacks were used during a temporary shortage of other sacks. Hartley cut seed near Amarillo, Texas, as well as in the Vinita vicinity."