Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man inspecting and watching a six-inch siphon starting to run, watering conservation irrigation system. The back of the photograph proclaims, “6 inch siphon starting to run, watering conservation irrigation system.”

Photograph of two men hammermilling blue grama seed with a drum type seed seedstripper on the H. D. Cornell Ranch.

Photograph of 4 1/2 acres of Madrid sweet clover, planted on the contour on May 26, 1945, at the rate of two pounds per acre. Clover has been grassed and an electric fence separates it from the adjacent cultivated field. TX. 1015.

Photograph of Switch grass doing good on a turned out field. Naturally reseeded. No Assistance. TX, 42-392.

Photograph of the hammermilling of blue grama seed harvested with a drum type seed stripper. About 11,000 pounds of blue grama seed (uncleaned) were harvested on the H. D. Cornell ranch this fall [i.e., 1950]. Cornell will use part of the seed on his ranch to reseed denuded areas and has purchased a drill. TX-47-380.

Photograph of Angleton grass (A. a????latus). King Ranch seed field.

Photograph of "Four 6" siphons delivering water to a check. Each siphon delivers approximately 300 gallons a minute."

Photograph of "Four 6" siphons delivering 1200 gallons of water per minute to a field check."

Photograph of four 6" siphons furnishing water to check at rate of 1200 gallons of water per minute over the course of 12 minutes. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Check watering out in 12 minutes. Four 6" siphons furnishing water to check at rate of 1200 gallons of water per minute."

Photograph of J.P. Kuvrenoall, Administrators Field Representative, and Director, Regional Technical Service Center, South. Fort Worth, Texas

Photograph of a heath aster or aster ericoides plant. TX-43, 254 [?].

Photograph of a Maximillian Sunflower. TX-43 [?], 233.

Photograph of rancher Pat Higgins holding runners of Angleton grass growing in rod rows. TX-46, 393.

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Here he checks it for proper adjustment as recording starts. Picture # 5 of a series. TX-46, 266-E.

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The floats are being placed within the rings. Picture # 2 in a series. TX-46, 266-B.

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Water-holding rings are in place. One picture of a series. TX-46, 266-A.

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The device is completely set up. The recorder is on the left. The water supply drum is on the right. Rings, floats and water on the lower right. Picture # 4 in a series. TX-46, 266-D.

Photograph of John D. Faught, farm owner and Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor and J.L Coppedge, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician marvel at the way in which this King Ranch bluestem has grown and survived during 3 years of drought. The grass was planted in April, 1949, in 3-foot rows at the rate of 2 pounds per acre. Some barnyard fertilizer was used on the grass. TX-48-301.

Photograph of a heath aster plant. Aster ericoides [an outdated classification]. TX-43, 254.

Photograph of Maximillian sunflowers. TX-43, 233.

Photograph of Infiltrometer built by Soil Conservationist Service [SCS] scientist, A.D. Bull. SCS technicians examine the recording instrument. No. 3 of a series.

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Dull from Woodward, Oklahoma. Here he explains it to D.G. Kolkar, soil conservation student, from Mumbai (orig. Bombay], India. TX-46. 266 F.

Photograph of clipped bluestem plot, the same as in TX-43, 229-A. Average forage yield of this and 9 other plots was 5,567 pounds per acre. Yield of mulch was 1580 pounds per acre. TX-43, 229-B.

Photograph of terraced waterway seeded and sodded to Bermuda grass in April 1947. The field on the right empties terraces here and field on the left will do as when it is terraced in the near future. Water finally empties into Spring Creek. Dense stand of grass now carries water safely. Note remains of old gullies gouged out by run off before waterway and terraces were built. Soil Conservation Services technician Hillard Hoffman inspects the grass. TX-44, 813.