Photograph of showing the average growth of the 20 year old ten acre Concord Grape vineyard. The chorty soil was terraced before grapes were set. Soil building crop of vetch, yellow hop clover, lespedeza, and rye grass is maintained at all times except for short period during the final growth and ripening of the fruit. Phospate is applied under the legumes. A regular spray schedule has been maintained. There has never been a failure to produce a fair crop and they have produced 3000 bushels several times.

Photograph of rancher J.E. Time (right) shows Fred Whittington, Soil Conservation Service Technician, one of the 16 ponds on his ranch. This one was stocked with fish in the fall of 1944.

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9037.

Photograph of sideoats grama grass that was seeded in the Spring of 1942 in 36" rows by oil Conservation Services Nursery, Woodward, Oklahoma. Has been cultivated and was mowed for weed control while young. Seed ware combined in 1944 and 1945. OK-9079.

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9028.

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9029.

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9024.

Photograph of buffalo grazing on native prairie on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9022.

Photograph of buffalo watering on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9026.

Photograph of buffalo on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9027.

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9036.

Photograph of longhorn cattle on Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. OK-9034.

Photograph of Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service technician (left) and Harry Newer (right), Soil Conservation Supervisor examine some of the cured weeping lovegrass hay that is being baled from windrows on a 2 ½ acre field planted 14 ½ months ago. On June 15 it yielded 350 pounds of reclaimed seed valued at $3.50 to $4.00 per acre. Forty-five days after the grass was cut with a binder for seed it yielded 10 [number unclear], sixty-five pound bales of hay. Total value of yield from planter to date is about $1200 or $600 per acre.** He [Mr. Newer?] planted lovegrass March 27, 1944 after his wife asked him to “sow that field [with] something that will keep the dust out of the house.” He plans to plant an additional 8 or 10 acres of lovegrass next year. OK-9042.

Photograph of a home of native, white limestone constructed with the profits from adairy farm. OK-9101.

Photograph of Morris Tucker (left), scout Master, Troop 104, teaching nature studies and growth of black locust trees which are now two-years old. Left to right: Tucker, Max [unclear], Jimmie [unclear], Billy Holland and Jimmie Young. OK-9103.

Photograph of horses grazing on revegetated Class VII land, planted in 1942 with a mixture of side-oats, blue end hairy grass, bluestem and weeping love-grass. Mr. [unclear] is a district Supervisor. OK-9186.

Photograph of a watering trough below a pond dam on the Chester Hall farm. OK-9108.

Photograph of Class V land (due to high water table). Rolling Red Plains. Sedge cover is utilized for grazing and hay. Bottom land soil. OK-9124.

Photograph showing a rear view of a 30 inch sweep machine. This machine is a Dampster No. 101 which has been worked over by the station. The sweeps are Ra-dex made by I. F. Reed at the Alabama machinery laboratory. TX-45, 883.

Photograph of Lonnie E, Blair and his boys stacking native bluestem. Mr. Blair is shown near stack of hay and Donald, oldest son, on rake. Mr. Blair is a member of the Board of Supervisors.

Photograph of a cultivated field to be terraced on the W. K. Y. watershed taken from Camera Station #4. The back of the photograph proclaims, "(Camera Station #4. Looking S. up second terrace that empties in pasture W. of farmstead. Camera 40' N. of fence.) W. K. Y Watershed. Cultivated field to be terraced. Ends of terraces will extend out into native pasture (in foreground) which will serve as an outlet."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED person showing the formation of a gully or ravine on Class VII land with a soil 20, and 2% slope somewhere in Roger Mills County. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Land use capability Class VII. Soil 20, 2% slope. Rolling Red Plains. Retired from cultivation and reseeded to sideoats, hairy and blue grama, bluestem, weeping lovegrass. Seeded 1941."

Photograph of the rear view of a Dampster No. 101 thirty-inch sweep machine on the Amarillo Experiment Station. The back of the photograph states, "The rear view of a 30" sweep machine out of ground. This machine is a Dampster No. 101, which has been worked over by the station. The sweeps are Ra-dex, made by I. F. Reed, at the Alabama machinery laboratory."

Photograph of revegetation of rangeland on U. S. Government Tract 184. An UNIDENTIFED man kneels in a field of two year old Bluestem and blue grama grasses planted in 1944. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Revegetation of range land. Two year old planting of bluestem and blue grama grasses. Planted spring of 1944."