Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of the plowing under of cowpeas as a green manure. Plowing being done on the contour. OK-6881.

Photograph showing the necessity of farm ponds and water conservation practices. OK-6874.

Photograph of solid sodded flume outlet for a farm pond. The flume is an overfall and the pond is an equalizer in a terrace system. OK-[unclear].

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station. The land has been out of cultivation for 25 years [as when the photo was taken]. No conservation methods have been practiced. This land has been grazed very lightly. OK-6912.

Photograph of State Game Rangers supervisiong seining of fish from lakes about to go dry.

Photograph of State Game Rangers supervisiong seining of fish from lakes about to go dry.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of bermuda grass sprigs planted in every other cotton row. This field is to be retired to pasture and this means was taken to introduce the grass. It was cultivated whenever the cotton was. To be followed with later pictures.

Photograph of a combination of rock checks and sod dams with Bermuda grass used in gully control work.

Photograph of Little Blue Stem grass, seeded in 1937 for a meadow.

Photograph of a roadside gully destroying a fence. On the right the fence has been moved back, the roadside resectioned, and set to Bermuda grass.

Photograph of the harvesting of Korean Lespedeza seed as seen in the combine. AR-30, 246.

Photograph of a Bermuda grass pasture.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Abandoned land which has been out of cultivation for forty years. It was severly eroded and even after forty years only annual grasses and weeds are able to survive. OK-6916.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Clumps or pedestals of soil held from ending by bluestream grass. OK-6913.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Blackjack and chinery oak area which was cleared at the same time as that in OK-6909, but was not mowed to keep the scrub [around the?]oak trees from coming back. Compare with OK-6909 and OK-6911. OK-6910.

Photograph of Boomer Lake, Stillwater, OK. The lake is at an extremely low level during the very dry summer of 1936. R7-457.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in one of the parallel contour strips on uniform slope ten miles northwest of Wagoner. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Parallel contour strips on uniform slope. These strips are to be planted to native grass mixture. To be followed with later pictures."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man kneeling in between two contrasting Bermuda fields. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Bermuda pasture root planted in three foot rows eight or ten years ago by the farmer. The section on the right was plowed last spring but not mowed. The grass is heavier where plowing was done, although weeds are larger. The pasture is to be mowed next spring and progress pictures are to be made to show the grass growth."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man using a pale to scoop up water from a farm pond 2 miles west and twelve miles north of Pryor. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Shows necessity for farm ponds and water conservation practices."

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of severe gully erosion on Verdigris terrace soils.